How to Avoid WhatsApp Scams by Disabling a Simple Feature

WhatsAppthe instant messaging app owned by Meta, formerly Facebook, has become an essential tool for most Spaniards in recent years. Its speed, ease of use and useful features make it suitable not only for communicating with friends and family, but also for socializing. share all types of contenteven at work.

This app is almost a must have on our mobile phone. It’s a rare day that we don’t open it. check our messages or send a photo, video or document to a contact. And we trust her completely. However, more and more criminals who use this environment to obtain information about their victims, usually using their anonymity to pose as acquaintances or trusted people.

It’s actually very easy to do all types of fraud in messaging apps of this type, because simply by sending links, documents, videos or photos, criminals can get hold of all your data. It is necessary download the specified file take control of the victim’s device

Automatic loading

By default, our mobile phone has WhatsApp application installed with some specific features. Among them are download files automaticallyThis means that when a contact sends us, for example, a photo, it is automatically downloaded to be saved on our mobile phone.

And while this gesture may seem harmless, as we have just seen entails risks. Therefore, it is advisable to disable the automatic file download function.