NEW DELHI: Millions of WhatsApp customers in India have been left baffled on the quantity of worldwide spam calls they’ve been receiving within the final couple of days, leaving many on the danger of economic loss. These spam calls with worldwide numbers, principally from African and Southeast Asian international locations, together with pretend messages from unknown customers, have flooded WhatsApp and Indians have nowhere to go however Twitter to share their ordeal.
Meta-owned WhatsApp has near 500 million customers in India. “What is happening with WhatsApp? So much spam. So much,” Gaurav Munjal, Founder, Unacademy Group, posted on Tuesday.
“WhatsApp Business was a big blunder. Brian Acton (WhatsApp Co-founder) has been proved right,” tweeted Sourabh Mathur, an entrepreneur. Although the cellular numbers present nation codes of Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Ethiopia, it isn’t vital that these calls are literally coming from these international locations.
Most of those calls begin with +251 (Ethiopia), +62 (Indonesia), +254 (Kenya), +84 (Vietnam) and different international locations. Ray Stings @Purba_Ray tweeted: “I keep getting missed calls on WhatsApp from unknown numbers from different parts of the world every single day. It`s so bad, I have to keep my phone on silent”.
WhatsApp was but to touch upon the rising pretend spam calls on its platform. “Same here. Seems to be an epidemic. @whatsapp needs to allow us to choose to get calls from contacts only,” posted Shivam Vij, New Delhi-based unbiased journalist.
Another affected WhatsApp consumer mentioned: “I get that (scam calls) at 5 in the morning. Almost my daily morning alarms now”. “That`s JAMTARA GLOBAL, for you,” posted one other. Another rip-off that’s being reported in India is that of receiving job affords by way of WhatsApp messages.
