The claim
Young women who pretend to know you contact you via WhatsApp and seek contact via another WhatsApp or Telegram account.
Our conclusion
The messages are sent en masse with always the same text. Don't respond to it, because there is a scam behind it!
We reported as early as June 2021 : Young women, often from Asia, contact you via WhatsApp very casually and in halting German and obviously want to get in touch again. But what looks like a random contact (“ Hey, can’t hurt to respond to that, right? ”) is actually a scam that can be expensive!
This is what WhatsApp messages look like
The requests all have almost the same text and always refer to a different WhatsApp or Telegram account at the end.

“Hello, we haven’t been in touch for a long time, I don’t know if you remember me, so I sent you a photo of myself now, I miss you a lot, how have you been lately?”
It then switches from “you” to the formal “you” and refers to a WhatsApp or Telegram account. The photos also vary; in the cases we know of, the area code refers to a number in Indonesia .

What is behind this scam?
The possibilities for fraudsters are diverse, the most obvious being the so-called “ romance scamming ”, in which users are made to believe that they are in love and after a while they are asked for first smaller, then larger sums of money in order to supposedly pay for moving costs, flights and administrative costs to be able to.
The fraudsters do this very cleverly: They never ask for money straight away, but instead build up an apparent relationship of trust over weeks and months until you believe that you have actually found true love, for which you of course plunder your account in order to be with it to have each other.
Under no circumstances react!
Fraudsters usually arrive through leaked databases or simply by automatically sending randomly generated numbers to WhatsApp users.
A reply confirms to scammers that the number exists and is active, which opens up many possibilities.
For example, the now confirmed number can be used for ping calls (it only rings once, the user calls back out of curiosity and ends up with an expensive, paid announcement), as well as spam calls about supposedly winning competitions or sending malicious links possible.
Conclusion
It's actually quite simple: If you don't know a person, you shouldn't react, and in the above cases it's best to report them to WhatsApp straight away and block them.
The scam was and is also carried out in other countries, for example “The Independent” ( see HERE ) reports that users in Singapore were contacted with similar texts, only the pictures of the women vary.
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