Beware! This ₹6,000 gift is a WhatsApp scam! Delete malware now

WhatsApp has over two billion users, which makes it the most popular and widely used messaging app in the world, ahead of China’s WeChat, sibling Facebook Messenger, Telegram or Signal. Thanks to its popularity, the messaging service is also the most popular target for hackers who keep pushing malware to WhatsApp users. Scams and fraudulent messages are everywhere on WhatsApp. It is quite a scary ecosystem that hackers create to trap innocent WhatsApp users. We reveal here the latest such scam. Amazingly, this WhatsApp scam offers a gift worth ₹6,000 which claims to be part of the iconic Indian dairy company Amul’s 75th-anniversary celebrations. This message is now doing the rounds on WhatsApp – here’s why users should beware of such malware.