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A woman in Azerbaijan tried to gain access to her sister’s WhatsApp messages but ended up falling victim to scammers.
According to Xəzər Xəbər, the woman, identified as Jale Seyidova, said she found an Instagram page offering to connect another person’s WhatsApp messages to a customer’s phone.
Seyidova said she was given a bank card number and asked to transfer money for the service. After making the payment, she contacted the page again to ask when the access would be activated, but received no answer.
She later said she was blocked on WhatsApp. After checking TikTok, she found that she had also been blocked there. Seyidova said she was not the only person affected and claimed the same page had deceived other people she knew.
Cybersecurity specialists say such offers are common on social media. In many cases, people are promised access to someone else’s messages, calls or accounts, asked to send money and then blocked.
IT researcher Bahruz Aliyev said many services advertised as WhatsApp monitoring are either outright scams or rely on illegal methods.
Such schemes may involve spyware, hidden access through WhatsApp Web or attempts to obtain SMS verification codes. These methods can create risks not only for the victim whose account is targeted, but also for the person trying to order the service.
Experts warn that attempting to monitor another person’s private messages can lead to legal liability. Users are advised to enable two-step verification, never share confirmation codes and avoid social media pages that promise access to other people’s accounts or private chats.
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