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Beware of 'friends' asking for security codes on WhatsApp
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A growing pool of WhatsApp users have become victims of social hacking, where scammers use already hijacked social media accounts to contact victims by posing as their friends or family.
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Cara Wong
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When a secondary school friend contacted him out of the blue a few months ago asking for a verification code on WhatsApp, administrative executive Tan Jun Heng, 25, did not suspect anything was amiss.
His friend simply claimed to have "accidentally" sent the code to his number.
