{"id":969065,"date":"2025-10-23T08:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969065"},"modified":"2025-10-23T09:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:19:10","slug":"whatsapp-issues-warning-over-latest-money-stealing-con-trick-dont-fall-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/23\/whatsapp-issues-warning-over-latest-money-stealing-con-trick-dont-fall-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp issues warning over latest money-stealing con trick &#8211; don\u2019t fall for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp scam alert 2025: WhatsApp is warning users to be cautious of a new scam that targets people\u2019s money through its screen-sharing feature, as per a report. With more than three billion users worldwide, the messaging app has become a frequent target for cybercriminals, as per The Sun report. <\/p>\n<p>How the WhatsApp Scam Works <\/p>\n<p>The new in-app alert appears whenever someone tries to share their screen during a video call with an unknown contact. While screen sharing can be useful for showing friends or family what\u2019s on your phone, scammers have found ways to exploit it to collect sensitive information,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp scam alert 2025: WhatsApp is warning users to be cautious of a new scam that targets people\u2019s money through its screen-sharing feature, as per a report. With more than three billion users worldwide, the messaging app has become a frequent target for cybercriminals, as per The Sun report. How the WhatsApp Scam Works The new in-app alert appears whenever someone tries to share their screen during a video call with an unknown contact. While screen sharing can be useful for showing friends or family what\u2019s on your phone, scammers have found ways to exploit it to collect sensitive information,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}