Whatsapp spreads quickly! After the 'Blue Whale' and now 'Momo'
This time, the new game named 'Momo' caused anxiety.
This face spreading through the messaging platform WhatsApp has started to recognize more and more people. The resemblance to the Blue Whale named play, which has spread among young people and is associated with numerous suicide events around the world, is causing concern. Particularly in Latin America, authorities have turned to face-to-face challenges on the face of your phone.
The police unit in Mexico that investigated crimes over the internet explains that Momo started as a social media group:
"Everything started on a Facebook page, and a group of people started challenging each other to search for a foreign number, many said they were sending messages to Momo and back as violent photos, some of which received threatening messages, They say they are threatened to be disclosed. "
HOW IT OUT
The internet is full of Momo-related content. Among the most readers on Reddit's social news site are "Whatsapp girl Momo who and what?" title. The most popular answer to this question on the same platform is as follows:
"One of the Spanish-speaking countries has cut a photo from Instagram and created a Whatsapp user with this number spreading and the photos are beginning to come with annoying photos, some say Momo has access to personal information."
Momo can reply to messages sent via a phone number in Mexico country. The only thing that is absolutely known about Momo is the fact that three separate numbers with country extensions in Japan (+81), Colombia (+52) and Mexico (+57) have been associated with the game. The photo was taken from a show in Japan. This horrible face, now known as Momo, belonged to a "bird woman sculpture" in the exhibition.
"Momo", one of the most interesting works of your activity, was on display at the Vanilla Museum in 2016. Many people shared photos taken with them from their social media accounts, and so spread in Instagram. The Mexican police, in the meantime, think that someone created a picture of the Momo character and a photo of the one encountered in Instagram.
The inevitable question on the mind is what kind of danger the Momo play has. The Mexican cybercrime police show five different topics about the possible threats of Momo as well as the danger of messaging with an unidentified number:
DANGEROUS
Your personal information can be played
A language of violence is being used and people can be suicidal
Users are being threatened and harassed
People can get money forcibly
Participants in the game can get depressed and anxious attacks
The Momo game has already begun to compare with the Blue Whale, which has been associated with many teen suicides since 2017. Despite being created in Russia, the Blue Whale game soon spread to the world through social media. The Russian-based Blue Whale game soon spread to the world. Although Momo is spreading heavily through WhatsApp, the game of virtual construction, which is very popular among children, has begun to appear as a game character in Minecraft too. Virtual criminologists are advised to stay away from such messaging chains and not communicate with unknown numbers.