Have you spied any other spam on WhatsApp? Tell me in the comments or on our Facebook wall. Based on the text, the spam may have started on BlackBerry messaging service BBM - hence Jim Balsamic, a vinegar-flavoured corruption of Jim Balsillie, former co-CEO of RIM. This message has surfaced before, with WhatsApp confirming on its blog that a very similar message was also spam way back in January, while the passage is also cited on debunking site Hoax-Slayer.
I've reached out to WhatsApp for confirmation of the hoax, and I'll let you know if I hear anything back. WhatsApp acknowledged that issue on Twitter, and said the spam appears to be an opportunistic play on people's worries following that bug. After answering, you are required to invite 20 friends to stay at home, in order to get the same ‘deal’. If you click the link, you will be taken through a series of questions, as a survey on COVID. The message followed a glitch that sprung up earlier this week, breaking contact statuses. The latest Whatsapp scam promises the users 1000 Gb of Internet for free to encourage them to stay home during the COVID-19 crisis (see below). "Please DO NOT ignore this message or whatsapp will no longer recognise your activation," the fake communcation orders, warning, "If you wish to re-activate your account after it has been deleted, a charge of 25.00 will be added to your monthly bill." "If you do not forward this message," the shady message continues, "we will take it as your account is invalid and it will be deleted within the next 48 hours. We are requesting all users to forward this message to their entire contact list. The viral message appears to be from the CEO of WhatsApp, one 'Jim Balsamic', and reads, "We have had an over usage of user names on whatsapp Messenger. A hoax message has been rattling around popular instant messaging app WhatsApp, urging people who use the app to forward a message to all their contacts or face having their accounts deleted, Indian tech site Firstpost reports.
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