For some time now, WhatsApp scams have been on the rise. Rarely is the week when we do not receive some kind of message on our Xiaomi, Redmi or POCO mobiles that they are trying to deceive us. And if we fall, we’ll hand over our personal and banking data to people who won’t hesitate to steal every last penny from us.

The latest scam reported by the National Police is based on a very simple scheme.: they contact us, many times by calling our personal name, with an encrypted message. After the first surprise, a series of requests will begin for us to make an urgent transfer.

WhatsApp message alerting the National Police

The message in question reads, “Hello, how are you, dear. Someone from abroad who always remembers you fondly writes to you… Guess who I am?”

If we accept this unknown person and continue to talk to him, the anonymous user will ask us for help, a small bank transfer advocates paying for a flight.

Apparently, the person is “stranded” at the airport and just wants to catch the first flight back to Spain. It’s a scam that’s wreaking havoc among people who have relatives or fly relatively frequently in Latin America.

If you receive this or similar message, they invite us from Government forces not only to block this number but also to report it as a scam to prevent it from spreading.

The reason they took our name

Usually the hook starts from a very simple data: they know our name. As it turns out, creating this scam is not that complicated. They state that the names were probably taken directly from the WhatsApp information, from the official account of the Granada Local Police.

Once they have a name and a number, they have an effect, “you just have to pick random numbers and check where the names appear to throw the stick”. We recommend extreme caution from MundoXiaomi. There are even stolen Instagram accounts already from a simple screenshot.