Claim: “There are photos of you on the website”
Source: Telegram
Verdict: HOAX
Researched by Samuel Nii Adjetey
A Telegram link circulating on WhatsApp is baiting users to click a link to retrieve personal photos with a simple message, which reads “Hi. There are photos of you on the website.
The message urges recipients to click on the link provided, presumably to view the alleged photos on the website.
This fact-check report will seek to verify the authenticity of the message.
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Fact-check
GhanaFact ran a step-by-step analysis of the link attached to the message to view the contents on the shared website. Initial attempts to access the link showed that the website is no longer functional.
To investigate the url, GhanaFact used the archiving tools archive.fo, Wayback Machine and Ghost Archive to check if there was a website with the same url on any of the platforms, but found no results.
The link was further run through virustotal.com, a security website that scans links and files for malicious code. The scan classified the link as malicious and phishing.
Proofpoint.com defines phishing as “a common type of cyber attack that targets individuals through email, text messages, phone calls, and other forms of communication.
“A phishing attack aims to trick the recipient into falling for the attacker’s desired action, such as revealing financial information, system login credentials, or other sensitive information,” it adds.
WHOIS information of the domain – qk06.vip, reveals that the website was registered on August 11, 2024, updated on June 18, 2025, and set to expire in August 2025.
The registrars of the domain employed the services of privacyguardian.org to hide their original information, a usual modus operandi of malicious website operators.
Verdict
Therefore, the link is phishing, and the Telegram message is a HOAX.
