WhatsApp Honey Trap Scam: In the modern era of Internet and online working culture, many difficult tasks have become easy, but the task of deceiving people, committing fraud and cheating people of money has also become quite easy. Every day, cyber criminals keep adopting some new method of cheating and blackmailing people through online medium.
WhatsApp is becoming a platform for cyber criminals through which they can easily carry out any scam. One such new WhatsApp scam has started, whose name is WhatsApp Honey Trap Scam. From the name of this scam, you might have got some idea of how people are cheated through it. Let us explain to you in detail in this article how WhatsApp honey trap scam works and how users should avoid it.
How does WhatsApp honey trap scam work?
step 1: For this scam, scammers create a fake profile on WhatsApp and beautiful and very attractive pictures of girls are posted in that profile, so that the users start thinking of replying immediately after seeing their messages. However, if users look carefully at the DP of such fake profiles, they can probably understand that the profile is fake.
step 1: Scammers message through fake profiles, and gradually escalate the conversation. In the beginning, scammers display very friendly behavior so that they can win the trust of the users. During this, scammers also flirt with the user, due to which the user trusts the scammer out of attraction.
Step 2: After establishing trust in the minds of users, scammers use the next trick to trap them. They make audio and video calls to them. They take the friendly behavior forward and within a few days create a relationship with the common user, like the one between a girlfriend-boyfriend or husband-wife.
Step 3: After a few days, scammers try to put the user in such a situation that they can be blackmailed later. For example, scammers can make romantic video calls with users and record some private moments.
Step 4: On the basis of this recording, scammers later blackmail the user. Scammers say that if they do not give money or do not fulfill their demands, then they will make the video clip of that user’s private moments public on social media, among their friends, relatives or others.
After that the user gets blackmailed and himself keeps sending lakhs and crores of rupees to those scammers and also keeps fulfilling their other demands. Let us tell you that in this article we have mentioned only one method of blackmailing. Scammers can use many more such methods to create a blackmailing situation.
How to avoid such scams?
- To avoid such scams, users need to be very careful.
- Users should always keep in mind that they should avoid contacting any unknown numbers online.
- If you want to contact, then do every possible check about that number to know who you are going to talk to.
- Do not share your personal details with any person on WhatsApp.
- Do not receive video calls from any unknown number, because through this you can easily be made a target.
If something like this happens to you, you can report the scam on WhatsApp or even lodge a complaint with the police. Apart from this, the Government of India has recently started a new web portal named Chakshu for filing complaints of such online frauds. Users can also complain about being scammed or someone trying to commit fraud on this platform of the Government of India.
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