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The wedding season has begun and the invitations have started to reach people. However, with changing times, people’s invitations also changed. In this era of technology, now instead of traveling everywhere to send wedding cards, they send them through WhatsApp. Thanks to which people save a lot of time. To do this, people create a PDF of the wedding card and send it to their family members. But now scammers have found possibilities in this too.
Himachal Pradesh police officials have provided information about this ‘wedding invitation scam’. He said that now scammers cheat and trap people through this card. Your phone will be hacked as soon as you download it. For this scam, scammers send you a PDF of a wedding card. Which seems absolutely real. But as soon as you download it, the game will be with you.
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The wedding season is about to arrive. Scammers can impersonate you and send you a wedding invitation by creating a link to a video or APK file. Just by clicking on it, your WhatsApp or even your phone can be hacked.
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As soon as you download it, your phone will be hacked and cybercriminals will have access to the device. After which the scammer can easily use your phone for any criminal activities. Giving information about this, the officer said that the scammer first sends him a PDF. As soon as you put it down, you will lose access to your phone. After this, the scammers get access to all the apps and folders present on your phone and can also delete your account without your knowledge.
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This image has been shared on X by an account called @Sarvesh280989. As of this writing, hundreds of people have seen and liked it and people are giving their reactions about it. One user wrote: “Nowadays even scammers have become very smart.” While another wrote: “One should avoid opening these types of invitations only to find out that you are ruining someone else’s wedding.”
