Bitcoin Stock Scam Targets WhatsApp Users
A penny stock tied to a little-known bitcoin company and a slew of WhatsApp spam messages were at the heart of a pump-and-dump scheme last week. As reported by The Awl, WhatsApp users received messages on 21st August stating that traders from major Wall Street investment banks including JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs were about to buy stock in Avra, Inc (OTCQB: AVRN), a company that, according to its website, sells bitcoin ATMs and point-of-sale solutions. Pump and dump spam on WhatsApp? pic.twitter.com/3BCVnIzHNC. - Noah McCormack (@noahmccormack) August 21, 2015. The messages....
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WhatsApp users were the target of spam messages last week when spammers claiming to be traders from JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs told the users that stock of AVRN will spike to $1. This message led to some curiosity about this Bitcoin company but it was short-lived as the news of it being spam quickly did the rounds as well. The screenshots of these spamming messages were reported by The Awl. One such scam message read: "Hi its ed at goldmansachs I hope the familys good. Listen my "guy" just sent me a msg saying that AVRN is going to a dollar so if u wanna make a move and....
Novi, the remittance and payments initiative of Meta (formerly Facebook), has launched a Whatsapp pilot test for customers in the U.S. This means that a small number of Whatsapp users will be able to send and receive payments, as well as purchase digital dollars directly from the interface of the messaging service. This is an extension of the pilot program started six weeks ago focusing on remittances.
Novi Extends Pilot Program With Whatsapp Integration
Novi, the wallet service of Meta, has launched an extension of its pilot program that started six weeks ago. This new phase....
Indian E-Commerce site FreeCharge has partnered with WhatsApp to provide payment services directly through the WhatsApp chat application. FreeCharge made the announcement on May 20th, 2016 that they were adding their new feature to the messaging app to enable payment services. WhatsApp users must have a certain setting approved for the feature to work....
WhatsApp has decided to turn on encryption for all messages. Will this lead to more private conversations or have they just opened a can of worms? What is encryption and how will it work for WhatsApp users? On April 5, 2016, WhatsApp announced on its blog that they were going to start providing full end-to-end encryption. The announcement says: “The idea is simple: when you send a message, the only person who can read it is the person or group chat that you send that message to. No one can see inside that message. Not cybercriminals. Not hackers. Not oppressive regimes. Not even us.....
As WhatsApp goes down once again, there are a number of alternative platforms that are popular alternatives in the cryptocurrency space. Some two billion WhatsApp users were left without service on Oct. 25 as the biggest messaging application worldwide went offline. Meta, the owner of Facebook and WhatsApp, is yet to clarify what led to the outage.Users took to social media platforms like Twitter to share hilarious memes about the outage, with many flocking to alternative social media platforms to find out if they were alone in their lack of service. A similar situation took place in....