Considering the suspicious nature of the email address and claim itself, we felt a fact check was necessary to find out the truth. The contents of the message claim that it is from a WhatsApp-run COVID-19 Giveaway Charity Award 2020 with an email address asking winners to claim their financial rewards. “CONGRATULATIONS, YOUR NUMBER IS THE LUCKY WINNER OF 900.000$ FROM WHATSAPP’INC'(COVID-19) GIVEAWAY CHARITY AWARD 2020, TO CLAIM YOUR BENEFIT, Such a message forward to us by a WhatsApp user can be seen below Some spam takes on timely and topical themes, similar to a WhatsApp spam message currently circulating around the world and claiming to be from WhatsApp itself.
From email spam to social spam and spam received on messaging apps like WhatsApp, Messenger and Viber have taken over the spam game.
Since the advent of the internet, the spam messages have kept on evolving to newer forms.
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