Exposed: How fraudsters hack into your account and simple preventive measures!!

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Hackers find all possible means to make money via the internet and for this reason manipulate their way into innocent peoples' social media accounts.
It is believed that one of the top social media on which people interact today is undoubtedly known as WhatsApp. Hackers now manipulate their way into people's WhatsApp and thereby making all activities on such account paralysed to the owner.
The most unpleasant thing about it is that the phone number that you have been well known with will now get to be used to defraud people on your WhatsApp contact list and groups.
How does this happen?
This happens as a result of one's carelessly joining WhatsApp groups which are unknown to be created for fraudulent activities. After been lured to join the group, one of the administrators will put a phone call to you in order to welcome you and
the begin to swap your WhatsApp account number to his own number in the process. This automatically transfers your account to his phone.

He/she will ask for the code sent to your phone in the process for him to complete your registration on the group. If you go ahead by supplying them the code, then you should mark yourself a prospective victim already. The only way you will not fall totally is by not trying to input the second code sent to your phone in order to get back online as doing so makes you confirm the swapping process.
This happened to me in the course of the week but thanks to the heavens I didn't enter the second code provided, if not I would have been caught totally by their bait but this cost me 7 days offline in order to wait for WhatsApp to reset my account. Now I'm back online.
To prevent the occurence of this act, enable the "Two-step verification' under the settings of your WhatsApp and follow the instructions that follows.
Please be vigilant as there is high rate of fraudulent activities brought along with technology.

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