WhatsApp message: Slip on the rear window of the car - is that real?
Get a WhatsApp message telling you to be careful, if you find a note on the back window of the car, you may be unsettled. We'll tell you if the story is real or a fake.
WhatsApp message: note on the rear window - that's what it's all about
For years, WhatsApp messages that contain a warning have been sent from time to time in German-speaking countries.
- In this case, a warning is given against a car theft scam: Find a note on the rear window of your car, for example in a parking lot, you should be careful.
- The suggestion behind it is that gangs use this trick to get into the car, start it, and then discover the slip. The prerequisite is that you then get out again and look at the note. Meanwhile, someone gets into your car and drives away with it.
- We recommend getting into the car as quickly as possible, closing the doors and driving away quickly.
- So that the story gets more weight, it is written in capital letters “WARNING OF THE POLICE !!!”.
A modern chain letter
If you received a warning like this, you may be wondering if it is really real.
- The simple answer: it's a fake. There have been no incidents of this kind, and there has been no warning from the police.
- The WhatsApp message has been circulating for years and is continually changed in small details to make it appear more current. For example, the location where the event is said to have varied varies.
- It is a chain letter. Incidentally, the slip message is not the first and not the only chain letter on WhatsApp. In other articles we have already reported on the WhatsApp chain letter "Virus by Ute Christoff / Lehr" and the WhatsApp chain letter: "Virus by Hannes Bochtler".
- In any case, there is nothing in the story. Therefore our tip: Don't forward it, just delete it and inform the sender if you know it.
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