OTP Trap Warning: The Silent Threat Behind Fake Security Messages

OTP Trap How Hackers Use Fake Codes to Fool You

In today's online world, one-time passwords (OTPs) feel like a trusted way to keep you safe from harm when logging in and completing purchases. Trusted for logging in and completing purchases. Yet crooks now abuse that trust with the trap they call the OTP Trap. They design not real messages that mirror official wording and graphics, making the alert seem perfectly normal. Danger might happen to users who, believing they are responding to a genuine request, either hand over private details or paste the code at a fake site. Once inside, the attacker can raid bank apps, take control of social accounts, and even plunder corporate networks.