Just received an e.mail, purportedly from WhatsApp, saying my year free trial has ended and I need to click on link in order to pay to continue using the service. Is this a scam? Anyone else pay for using WhatsApp?
I got an email from someone called Caggles telling me my Charlton Life free trial had expired and I needed to wire money to bigrob@modsforhire.fr in order to carry on posting.
It's a scam, I'm sure they announced a while back that it's now free indefinitely. I think they used to charge after the 1st year but done away with it now.
Just received an e.mail, purportedly from WhatsApp, saying my year free trial has ended and I need to click on link in order to pay to continue using the service. Is this a scam? Anyone else pay for using WhatsApp?
I got the same email today. Usually my hotmail is quite good at keeping them in the junk. Always with any of these, inland revenue, PayPal etc just click on the email address and you'll see as someone highlighted above cjfiigkgkoififi@hxhxufudud.com or some nonsense
If WhatsApp ever charged a subscription fee, they'd lose 90% of their users overnight.
No, they just make money by selling your data instead. :-)
WhatsApp messages are encrypted by default. So no one can access your messages, not even whatsapp.
I know for a fact this isn't true, someone here in KM got in bother for something they'd said over WhatsApp, whilst using a VPN.
Well, I know for a fact it is. The person you're talking about probably messaged something in a group chat that some one grassed up, put on twitter etc.
You probably haven't been reading any uk news and amber Rudd going mental over whatsapp encryption when she doesn't understand what encryption actually is.
If WhatsApp ever charged a subscription fee, they'd lose 90% of their users overnight.
No, they just make money by selling your data instead. :-)
WhatsApp messages are encrypted by default. So no one can access your messages, not even whatsapp.
I know for a fact this isn't true, someone here in KM got in bother for something they'd said over WhatsApp, whilst using a VPN.
Well, I know for a fact it is. The person you're talking about probably messaged something in a group chat that some one grassed up, put on twitter etc.
You probably haven't been reading any uk news and amber Rudd going mental over whatsapp encryption when she doesn't understand what encryption actually is.
Nope wasn't a group chat and there's no twitter in China, he was pulled into the police station and presented with the messages he'd sent.
It caused a big stir here as plenty of people had been using whatsapp to discuss certain purchases.
It's double-end encrypted though, something which our woefully inept Home Secretary wants to ban because it is impossible for the security services to crack messages sent from accounts they are trying to monitor.
I'm not saying you're wrong but I doubt that your average Chinese copper is able to crack it but MI5 cannot?
I don't think it was an 'average' Chinese copper, he was deported and can never come back. The Chinese take certain things VERY seriously, internet chatter being one of them.
Now, he could be lying about what happened, I can't imagine why he would, but he's certainly been kicked out the country.
I wouldn't find it so hard to believe that tech wise China are miles ahead of the UK, they certainly have the resources!
Is it not possible the security services want people to think it's impossible, so they use whatsapp, making it easier to monitor certain people, or am I giving the UK government far too much credit?
I don't think it was an 'average' Chinese copper, he was deported and can never come back. The Chinese take certain things VERY seriously, internet chatter being one of them.
Now, he could be lying about what happened, I can't imagine why he would, but he's certainly been kicked out the country.
I wouldn't find it so hard to believe that tech wise China are miles ahead of the UK, they certainly have the resources!
Is it not possible the security services want people to think it's impossible, so they use whatsapp, making it easier to monitor certain people, or am I giving the UK government far too much credit?
I think if his encrypted whatsapp messages were cracked he was probably deeply of interest to the Chinese authorities anyway. Maybe just being a foreigner/westerner is enough for that level of suspicion, but it's ridiculously inefficient to try and crack encrypted messages of everyone and data hoard like they're trying to do at gchq.
I got an email from someone called Caggles telling me my Charlton Life free trial had expired and I needed to wire money to bigrob@modsforhire.fr in order to carry on posting.
I'll probably just let it lapse. Laters folks.
Balance still unpaid and you're already on a very fuckin tight tight rope sunbeam!
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I'll probably just let it lapse. Laters folks.
No, they just make money by selling your data instead. :-)
You probably haven't been reading any uk news and amber Rudd going mental over whatsapp encryption when she doesn't understand what encryption actually is.
It caused a big stir here as plenty of people had been using whatsapp to discuss certain purchases.
I'm not saying you're wrong but I doubt that your average Chinese copper is able to crack it but MI5 cannot?
Now, he could be lying about what happened, I can't imagine why he would, but he's certainly been kicked out the country.
I wouldn't find it so hard to believe that tech wise China are miles ahead of the UK, they certainly have the resources!
Is it not possible the security services want people to think it's impossible, so they use whatsapp, making it easier to monitor certain people, or am I giving the UK government far too much credit?
But I know 100% for a fact whatsapp is encrypted.