Urgent - Scam re Whatsapp

Silverhippy: With you totally on this the "no harm done" doesn't wash. There is none that is so blind as those who will not see.

endlessstrife, unfortunately there is harm done by passing on hoaxes, as they use and waste valuable bandwidth, which at this time of massively increased internet useage it becomes even more important not to waste it. Snopes and Hoaxslayer are definitely not Hoaxes themselves, they are extremely reputable websites which have been battling internet hoaxes since the days of the old Bulletin boards which preceeded all of the so called "Social Media" we have today. Snopes itself has been around since 1994 which even predates the search engines like Google.

Surely if Martinelli is a hoax, there’s no harm done, but if it isn’t, then there could be. How do we know ‘ hoaxslayer’ ‘snopes’, are not scams? I think we’ve got enough to worry about, without trying to out think hoaxers!

That old chestnut has been around for years, there is no WhatsApp gold anyway, check hoaxslayer or Snopes before you spread this sort of nonsense not as if you got it from an it expert yourself just copied and pasted. Having said that we all fall for some of them

Snopes also says the “Gold” thing is a hoax too, dating from 2016. You can only assume isolation is making work for idle hands!

Martinelli is a hoax.
WhatsApp hold is a scam.
They have been doing the rounds for over 20 years.
Which explains this in detail just Google "WhatsApp and Martinelli Which report."
Don't pass the warning on.

I know we want to warn folk but please don’t spread hoaxes there is enough scaremongering around at the moment. Check things before posting, Snopes is quite a good site

www.snopes.com/fact-check/whatsapp-martinelli-phone-virus-warning/

This is a hoax, read for yourselves. Please do not fall for these hoaxes, we have enough to panic about without falling for these.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/whatsapp-martinelli-phone-virus-warning/

Thank you for the information. x

Thanks for the warning. I use WhatsApp A LOT for family contact

Thank you for this. I had just been warned by a friend and have forwarded it to my WhatsApp friends.

Strongly suggest you Google "WhatsApp Martinelli snopes" before getting too excited. Snopes is a site that verifies ( or otherwise) these hoaxes. This martinelli seems to be a hoax.

Thank you for your information

Thanks, I've warned my family.

Thank you tessagee, I’ve let all my kids/ in laws know.

Thanks tessagee. I have phoned my son whose wife uses WhatsApp