I got this Status Update from a Friend’s Facebook update,so I decided to share it with you guys.

Good day ladies and gentlemen. If you have not been invited to install Whatsapp Video calling, congratulations, if you have been invited and you ignored, good for you.

A message is currently going around now where a link will be sent to you and once you click, it will take you to a page where you input your phone number. Once you type your number and click on "Continue", that will be the end!

The message comes in this form; "Hey, I am inviting you to activate WhatsApp Video Calling. Click here to Activate --> http://whatsapp.videocallinginvite.com"

The website videocallinginvite.com was registered in December 27, 2015 (less than a month ago) under GoDaddy, and the NS are NS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM and NS2.DIGITALOCEAN.COM. This shows clearly that the server is not from Whatsapp, because even before Facebook bought Whatsapp in 2014, Whatsapp clouded their server, and after Facebook bought them, the contents was moved to another server.

whatsapp Video call

Again, the url is nothing but fraud because you cannot create primary sub domain from a secondary URL. E.g, if the URL of Nigerian government is nigeria.gov, you can't tell Nigerians to visit nigeria.kogi.gov and claim that the website is from Nigerian government. Therefore the url of this purported Whatsapp Video Call cannot be whatsapp.videocallinginvite.com. Even the URL for desktop integration of Whatsapp chat is web.whatsapp.com, so if Whatsapp want to create video calls, it will be a name.whatsapp.com, not the other way round.

The guy/guys that registered this domain did it to extract as many numbers as possible. What they want to use it for, I don't know. But I so much believe that if routing can be possible, if cloning of websites can be possible, cloning of numbers can also be achieved. Though I'm thinking that the people behind this wickedness are looking for numbers of influential people, but nothing can be ignored, anything can happen. Don't forget that you can be tracked with your phone, and your conversation can also be tapped. Therefore we can’t rule out anything.

Please when anybody send you a similar link, ignore completely to avoid the story that touch!

NB

Whatsapp Video Call feature is reportedly in the making, but no such updates is officially available at the Moment, it will probably come as an app update and not through some phishing website.



Source http://www.gadgetsng.com/2016/01/warning-current-whatsapp-video-calling-scam.html

We've been here for a while now.... the whatsapp call is actually cool, won't even reason the video call if the App doesn't exist in Blackberry world.

Nice

Thanks @ op for this information.
I had always suspected it to be a sham.

At your service

uboma:
Thanks @ op for this information.

I had always suspected it to be a sham.

It was obviously and clearly a scam. D link itself said it all and even going ahead to ask for users to register their numbers is even enof to make anyone look d other way. How can one register for video calling when whatsapp itself hasn't included d video call option in its app.

He that has ears.. Let him hear..

Thanks

u never chin chun chin averything is a scam under dullards regime .

Quote me enywhere and be banished

Chai naija

It's only myopic sex starved perverts that will fall for the cheap scam

No wonder i 4 say

Lol... Thought as much

Its not just a Naija thing

Holuwakemmy16:
Chai naija

Thanks for the heads up

Thanks for the heads up..people sha

Nice one

As I Don register am so..hw I wan take save my number from D's kind mess

Thanks @op.

Thanks

and I typed my number o. lol

Though yet to receive it thanks cos not all will know that it will be through updating if such feature is available.

correct

I knew it

Hmmmm...... end tym revelations

Scammers everywhere
The hustle is real.
BTW thanks op for the info

Good investigative work!

Noted

Definitely correct

Thanks Op..
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Thanks Mod

My name is biafraudexposed I updated my whatsapp yesterday from Google play store and nothing like that. And I got a message about this video call in the evening. And that godaddy people are fund of hijacking domains. Just live a church domain free go daddy must take it.


What on earth cannot be scam when this Biafra struggle is a scam. People in Aba ariria have not been treated this is so painful, the money have been syphoned... On my part two you will see where KANU said he have no business with the poor first watch the one... Scams are everywhere like laser fever. God help us





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