More and more users are currently asking about a certain Tobias Mathis. You receive warnings via WhatsApp that the contact is a hacker and a virus.
WhatsApp users are currently receiving a warning that they should inform all people on their “WhatsUp” list that they should not accept the contact “Tobias Mathis”. It is a virus “(via WhatsUp)” that would destroy the entire hard drive.
The message is as follows:

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
The chain letter is not new. It was already making the rounds in May 2017, and ( we reported ) nothing has changed even in terms of the wording.
It matches versions of many other names that have emerged since then. The chain letter has been circulating on Facebook in one form or another since 2011 . Here it says: Don't accept the friend request!
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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.!
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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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