Beware of WhatsApp wedding scams—How a simple invitation could empty your bank
Winter is setting in across India, heralding the beginning of the wedding season. With numerous weddings scheduled for the latter part of this year and early 2025, reports sugges that India will host a staggering 3.5 million weddings in November and mid-December alone. However, this wedding season is also bringing with it a worrying trend—an increase in scams. While weddings and scams may not seem to go hand in hand, scammers are now exploiting wedding invitations as a means to steal money by sending invites using WhatsApp.