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What happens when you report a spam?
Tip: When you tap Report spam or manually move an email into your Spam folder, Google will receive a copy of the email and may analyze it to help protect our users from spam and abuse.
What happens if I get reported on WhatsApp?
When you report someone: WhatsApp receives the last five messages sent to you by the reported user or group, and they won’t be notified. WhatsApp also receives the reported group or user ID, information on when the message was sent, and the type of message sent (image, video, text, etc.).
Does Report Spam work?
You should definitely report spam using the “spam”, “junk”, or equivalent mechanism in your email program or web interface. This does nothing to reduce the amount of spam targeting your email address, but the result is that less of it ends up in your inbox, being deflected into your spam folder instead.
Why am I getting spam messages on WhatsApp?
Misspellings or grammatical mistakes. Asking you to tap on a link or activate new features through a link. Asking you to share your personal information, such as credit card or bank account numbers, birth date, passwords. Asking you to forward a message.
How do you stop spam?
On an Android phone, you can disable all potential spam messages from Google’s Messages app. Tap the three-dot icon in the upper right of the app and select Settings > Spam protection and turn on the Enable spam protection switch. Your phone will now alert you if an incoming message is suspected of being spam.
How do I stop spam on WhatsApp?
How to block spam messages on WhatsApp
- Go to the message thread that contains the spam message (be careful not to click on any links within the message).
- Tap on the contact at the very top of the page.
- Tap “Block Contact” at the bottom (to block) and “Report Contact” (to report).