In yet another phishing effort, a WhatsApp message offering to give free Visa and work in the UK is purportedly bogus and being sent with the nefarious objective of collecting bank data and other sensitive information of users . The letter, which purports to be from the UK government, adds that the UK needs more than 1 lakh workers in 2022, thus the government is hosting a job fiesta. The Whatsapp post asks individuals to apply for the 1,86,000 open places available.
As per a Malwarebytes investigation, some users have reported getting fraudulent messages purporting to be from the UK government. The cyber crooks are impersonating as government employees and targeting people who are eager to travel to the UK for work chances. The bogus mails say that the UK government is running a recruiting drive to fill up openings for over 186,000 unfilled employment spaces available.
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When a susceptible person, who is presumably seeking for a job, clicks on the phoney link that coems with the message. He is led to a URL, which is a bogus UK visa and immigration website. This is how the fraudulent message looks like, “THE PROGRAM COVERS: Travel expenditure. Housing. Accommodation. Medical facilities. Applicant must be 16 years or above. Can speak basic English. ADVANTAGE OF THE PROGRAM: Prompt issuance of a work visa. Support for filling out visa applications. All nationalities can apply. Everyone and anybody who wants to work or go to school is welcome. Join us!”
These messages are automatically created to harvest users’ private data. Users start entering personal information (name, email address, phone number, marital status, current occupation) when they are tricked into visiting the bogus website. In addition, the site misleads visitors into thinking that they would receive free housing, transportation, and a United Kingdom visa.
So to be protected from such scammy texts is to disregard them totally. If you receive a communication that seems too good to be true, you should definitely double check the origin. Con artists prey on those who are most willing to divulge personal information. Most of the time, these communications are not filtered correctly, they are grammatically inaccurate and feature special characters.
