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A hoax that has been making the online rounds on WhatsApp since at least mid-2017 warns users of the encrypted messaging service that they are supposedly vulnerable to a piece of malicious software being distributed via a video called Martinelli. The malware is said to be capable of hacking into a user's cell phone in under 10 seconds, wreaking irreparable damage: This warning is a hoax, one that appears to have originated in a Spanish-language version sometime in 2017. Spain's Policía Nacional issued a tweet debunking it back at the end of July 2017: This warning is quite similar to another WhatsApp-specific phone hacking hoax known as Popcorn Carnival, which also originated as a Spanish-language message around the same time.
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