Even during a pandemic, an old friend won't let us go - “Tobias Mathis”. A chain letter with a long tradition.
WhatsApp message warns of a hacker or Virus called “Tobias Mathis”
A certain “Tobias Mathis” is supposed to infect all contacts on WhatsApp with a virus.
It is an ancient chain letter from 2011.
“Tobias Mathis” and Mimikama share a very special bond. Even though the chain letter is actually slowly moving into the “urban legend” category, it still comes to visit us at regular intervals.
A zombie that has no equal and keeps resurrecting to haunt services like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger. That's what we call true passion!

URGENT!!!!
Please tell everyone in your WhatsUp list not to accept the contact “Tobias Mathis”! This is a virus (via WhatsUp) that destroys the entire hard drive and takes down the data. If one of your contacts catches him, you will also be affected because he will eat his way through the list! If the number 01719626509 calls you, don't answer it! Is a hacker and all your contacts will be affected too! It was also confirmed by EUROP1 and SAT1 this morning! Forward!!
The fact check
As persistent as the chain letter surrounding “Tobias Mathis” is, we would like to continue to explain the background to this text to you. Let's go!
The chain letter has been doing the rounds since May 2017, and ( we reported ) nothing has changed even in the wording. The text also coincides with versions of many other names that have emerged since then. The good thing has been circulating on Facebook in one form or another since 2011 . It also says: Don't accept the friend request!
Technically not possible: WhatsApp is there to exchange texts and small files with other users, also called “chat”. This means that a “hack” could only take place if someone was sent an infected file and opened it. But you cannot be “hacked” by simply accepting a contact and then they write to you.
The background
But where do warnings like the one about Tobias Mathis come from?
It all started with a so-called Moritz Häupl and a Christian Wick. In 2012, Christian Wick suddenly became Marcel Hohmann and then in 2014 Domenik Beuting and Andreas Opitz . It continued in 2015 with Ute Christoff. Ute Christoff became Ute Lehr and in 2017 it was the turn of Anouk Theiler Etc. etc.!
It is therefore a chain letter that may have arisen from a wide variety of observations. Nobody can prove anything anymore, you can only make assumptions.
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