User safety is an important issue for every social media platform. In such a situation, all the platforms are busy providing better security to their users and WhatsApp is also one of them. Often millions of people lose their money and personal data due to phishing scams. In such a situation, to save WhatsApp users from this problem, Meta has developed a new feature.
Under this new feature of WhatsApp, you can block any contact without opening the message. WhatsApp is also educating users on how to identify phishing attempts. Along with this, it is also asking the users to pay attention not to click on any link. Along with this, his personal information and financial details have also been revealed.
Scamming is increasing on WhatsApp
Being a popular messaging app, fraudulent or unnecessary messages are often shared on WhatsApp.
To keep these out of users' chat inboxes, the company recently announced the new 'Block from your Lock Screen' feature, which allows you to block and report a contact without opening the app.
With its help, users can easily block any WhatsApp account from message notifications. This will make the process of keeping scammers away and reducing spam activity on the platform much easier.
Learn how to block messages
How to block, and report contacts from the lock screen on WhatsApp?
First of all, you need to identify a spam message on your lock screen.
After this, tap on the arrow visible on the right side of the chat notification.
Now select the 'Block' option from the options visible next to the 'Reply' button.
After this, a new window will open for you.
Here if you want to report this contact, tick the 'Report Contact' checkbox and tap 'Block'.
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