Facebook and WhatsApp users should delete any of their posted photo and video files displaying greetings of "good morning" and "good evening," and also any religious messages, as hackers hid "phishing code" within such files to steal their personal data and banking information, already victimizing 500,000 people.

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Since at least 2020, Facebook and WhatsApp users copied and pasted a message promoting this rumor. We determined this entire matter was a hoax. We found no evidence to support the made-up claim hackers stole personal and financial data from 500,000 users by embedding "phishing code" in greeting-centric photos and videos. Also, the message referenced a "warning from Olga Nikolaevna's lawyer" and an "SOS" from "Shanghai China International News." A Google search revealed no results for any such lawyer issuing a warning, and "Shanghai China International News" does not exist.

For at least several years, Facebook and WhatsApp users copied and pasted into posts an advisory telling others to delete any of their posted photo and video files displaying greetings of "good morning" and "good evening," and also any religious messages. The posts said hackers hid "phishing code" within such media files to steal their personal data and banking information, already victimizing 500,000 people. The posts also mentioned the advisory originated in a warning from a lawyer for a person named "Olga Nikolaevna," following an "SOS" from...

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