I bet the intention is to bog you down with unnecessary commercials.

op God bless u for this information

The website doesn't load for ios users
Security toh tight

Thanks for the info. If there's something like that from Whatsapp, it will surely be embedded in their next update and not through some funny links.

Thanks for the heads up

Choi... I don oblige o and i invited about 10 peeps. Hope my number won't be clone o cos it happend to a friend-friend whose number was cloned after she did GTmobile transfer using *737*1* Amount*Acct No#. According to her, immediately after she did the transfer her phone went off and the line wasn't working hence she didnt recieve any alert, Only for her to get to the network service provider she was told her line has been hacked and they've rendered the line useless. When she went to check her balance all her money has been wiped off.
I discussed this with one GT customer's service at the branch, the lady said they're not aware of such development that she'll notify the IT department.

mumu naija network providers never allow me make voice call smoothly na video call?

gadgetsngs:
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

thank u very much OP. This is d kind of helpful topics we need

gadgetsngs:

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.

Thank GOD I ignored it!

Nice one Op, thanks for the info... Got dat msg from a friend last week Saturday also

I am a victim. I regret following the instructions even before this thread. is there a way out?

Of course anyone that is just a little IT inclined will know it is a scam.

I was surprised at the number of people that sent the link to me within 48hrs.

Ok ooooooh

Doubt if there is any known method of retrieving your number

rexesq:
I am a victim. I regret following the instructions even before this thread. is there a way out?

rman:
Of course anyone that is just a little IT inclined will know it is a scam.

I was surprised at the number of people that sent the link to me within 48hrs.

Nigerians like sharing stupid stuffs like that,recall when ebola and salt water ?

Ebayray:
Nice one Op, thanks for the info... Got dat msg from a friend last week Saturday also

Hope you didn't lick on it?

gadgetsngs:


Nigerians like sharing stupid stuffs like that,recall when ebola and salt water ?

That too. Network service providers could not believe the traffic surge overnight during the salt rubbish.

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

Na u come dey straff everyday nw....what concerns sex with the post sef

Someone sent me that message too, but i quickly deleted it as am not freaked with video calling.

So it's all a scam

Sorry OP, even the WhatsApp call is a scam

gadgetsngs:
Hope you didn't lick on it?

I did oo, bt didn't put any info dere

Good of you

Ebayray:



I did oo, bt didn't put any info dere

Tell me more please!

Greycious:
Sorry OP, even the WhatsApp call is a scam

gadgetsngs:
Good of you

Yeah, sure thing

I guess I was really lucky then when I received such a message like several weeks back but decided to ignore it.

many will still fall for this. We just need to spread the info

gadgetsngs:
Tell me more please!

How many times have u successfully made a phone call through the so called WhatsApp call?

Countless bro,maybe network is so bad around you sha

Greycious:

How many times have u successfully made a phone call through the so called WhatsApp call?

Since they even made it free for a lifetime, everything else will be a scam

Well anyone can fall victim, I know Nigerians easily adopt new online culture, so its a bit easy to scam us, just add "free", and by God you'll be shocked.

I refused to believe all of these. Though whoever is trying the video call stuff, if not whatsapp, for whatever purpose might be sinister. but there are other ways numbers can be gotten aside from this. what happens to collecting numbers from different databases?

gadgetsngs:
Countless bro,maybe network is so bad around you sha

so DAT stuff has to do with d network ai.