I have received around six to seven WhatsApp messages (from different numbers) claiming to facilitate recruitments into Amazon Nigeria and claim you can earn income ranging from twenty thousand to two hundred thousand naira hourly as you work from home.

Attractive offer right? It indeed sound so. However a link is attached which you are required to click in other to continue your processing.

I have never allowed myself to be tempted to click that link ever because my first instinct is that this is a way they will use to hack your whatsapp account and thereafter take over all the groups you belong to where they subsequently mine the phone numbers of other members that they still send similar messages to. In some instances, they will keep inundating the group chats with annoying scam messages of people making money after investing just one thousand naira, posting screenshots of bank account balance to back up such claims.

They keep doing this until such time the group admin's attention is called to the anomaly and such number is blocked. Sometimes the group member whose account was hacked quickly gets across to the group members notifying them of a potential hacker in the group using his/her number.

In certain instances, because the hacker by virtue of gaining access to the group chats is already privy to information about the group including itineraries of members, such hackers who also may be kidnappers deviced easy ways to plan abductions of members of such group chats.

My advice therefore is to ignore such messages and do not be tempted to click the links attached. Simply delete the messages or screenshot and use it to educate other potential victims on the need to be alert.

The subgroup vulnerable to this include job seekers. I believe those in this group will be tech savvy enough not to easily fall into this trap. Besides examples of those that have fallen victims and the consequences of such abound as free information on the Internet, including from friends and acquaintances, which is sufficient to raise suspicions about such enticing offers.

Another age group susceptible to being easily scammed are the elderly age groups (our fathers and mothers) who aged into, rather than born into the digital era. We should educate them specially and impress it upon them to inform us of any suspicious malicious activities or incidences outside the usual which they may come across in the course of using their devices.

Now that Elon Musk has fired half of the wok force of twitter, we should expect a new wave or modification of this scam, this time using "under directives from twitter CEO, Elon Musk", in place of Amazon Nigeria.

Best regards.