WhatsApp Gold Update – Hoax or Real?

With regards to online networking, it is extremely hard to comprehend the contrast between a certifiable message and a fabrication message. As of late, individuals have been getting notifications which reveal to them that another WhatsApp update is accessible and it is called WhatsApp Gold. The users would get a message containing a connection. Tapping on the connection would evidently divert you to a website from where you could download the update. In any case, this is a trick. This is a malware which could hack into your framework and even degenerate your information. You are instructed to stay away regarding such updates. There is a high likelihood that you will get the message since it has just been circled on a huge scale and it convincingly influences individuals to trust that this is a new version with new highlights. Many individuals did really download it imagining this is valid. WhatsApp Gold supposedly furnishes users with the capacity to:

• Hold video talks
• Send 100 pictures without a moment’s delay
• Erase messages hours after they were sent.

In any case, the tricksters are purposely tricking individuals by taking cover behind the veil of WhatsApp updates.

A false message

The programmers are circling a lying message intended to trap clients into downloading malware through WhatsApp. The message requests that the clients download a new refresh called WhatsApp Gold. However, on clicking it, clients really download the infection on their gadgets. The scam message additionally incorporates the word ‘Martinelli’, which is fundamentally an Italian surname.

Martinelli is only the name related with the deception message the user gets on the WhatsApp.As indicated by reports, the message peruses that an IT partner has prompted that a video turns out tomorrow from WhatsApp called Martinelli which nobody is supposed to open as it hacks your mobile phone and nothing will settle it.

It is additionally worth seeing that various WhatsApp users know that this message ought to not be downloaded and have begun spreading mindfulness messages on the application about the equivalent to caution different clients to not get bulldozed by it.

The step taken by the WhatsApp

We should state that it was a decent choice on WhatsApp’s part to confine the number of advances to just five times. In spite of the fact that this message is as yet being circulated broadly, the circumstance would have been truly wild had this progression not been taken by the WhatsApp organization itself. To any individual receiving such an update, it is advisable to completely ignore it. It is a hoax, a scam to say the least.

All the claims that the update says are evidently untrue. It is a virus to get into your system and create immense problems. Moreover, if there are any updates for WhatsApp, you will be told by means of the PlayStore or Apple Store. After that point, you can download it with your default cell phone application store for individual use. It is highly requested that individuals do not fall prey to this trap. In fact, even if any individual receives such a message they are suggested and requested not to forward or circulate it to their contacts.

Author: Prachi K

Technical Writer, Branding Executive – Hackers Interview. Prachi has professional experience in the area of Branding and Article writing.