Hacked Account
I need some guidance on what to do. My father got his WhatsApp account hacked April 1st. From what he told me someone called him posing as someone from a group-chat he is in telling him to send some code. And unfortunately he sent a code and know he’s unable to
log back into his WhatApp account.
Every time i have tried to log him back into his WhatApp account and receive a sms code it doesn’t work and the last time i tried it made me wait 12 hours.
I think i have tried to contact WhatsApp support about 4-5 times trying to speak to a human and i keep running into an AI bot sending me articles. My dad has a lot of other elderly people in his contacts, and i’m worried these individuals might fall for the scam messages because this scammer is actively texting people and asking them to zelle them money.
If anyone has any knowledge on this and can help me please let me know. The articles i’m seeing are telling me to wait 7 days. If anyone knows a way around this please let me know, but if not i’ll just continue to wait it out.