Vid-20190602-wa0000 Link

Around late 2019 and early 2020, many people received fraudulent text messages claiming they were being drafted for military service.

Messages often threatened fines or jail time for failing to respond. VID-20190602-WA0000

The reference is a standardized filename generated by WhatsApp for a video recorded or shared on June 2, 2019. Around late 2019 and early 2020, many people

If you are looking at this file on your device, here is what the name reveals: Indicates it is a video file. 20190602: The date the file was created (June 2, 2019). Around late 2019 and early 2020

The U.S. Army Recruiting Command confirmed these messages were completely fake .

Short for WhatsApp, the platform that generated the name. 0000: A serial number for files created on that same day.