On WhatsApp – you should do that if you write a foreign number

Many people are confused when they open an unknown number
Whatsapp contacted. There are different steps that you can take in this situation.

Foreign number writes – this is how you proceed on WhatsApp

Don't be too worried at first. There has to be no bad intention behind the message. Often it is simply a question of confusion and the sender has entered the wrong number.

If links or files are included in the message, be careful. Do not open them and do not download anything because viruses can hide behind it.

If the messages have a strange or worrying effect on you, you should ignore the messages and do not respond to it. If you contact the number regularly, you can also block it.

If you have blocked the number, you don't have to do anything else. She can no longer write them. However, if you want to find out who is behind the news, you can take a closer look.

Save the number in your phone book and then look at the profile picture and the status, if available. You can see from this whether it is someone completely unknown or a person known to them.

If you do not receive helpful information from image and status, you can ask the sender what is behind the message. You can also call the number via WhatsApp. However, make sure not to call the number on the phone, but only via WhatsApp. Depending on the number, the phone call can quickly become expensive.

Does the sender really know you or does he only pretend to know you?

If the sender claims to know it and only have a new number, be careful. Of course, it may be that acquaintances change their number. Sometimes, however, fraudsters also try to get their data through this stitch.

Usually it does not happen that a new WhatsApp account is created for a new number. Instead, the account will be transferred to a new number. Therefore, it makes sense to be careful with unknown numbers.

First check the profile picture and the status of the contact. This may already provide information about the sender.

Connect to the known or the acquaintance, which apparently wrote to you. Ask if you actually have a new number. If this is not the case, you can block the unknown number.

At first, be careful with supposed acquaintances on WhatsApp. Do not give a personal information prize because in the worst case it can be used to blackmail it.

Even if the unknown number claims to be in a financial emergency, you should be careful. The contact is supposedly needed quickly, a fraud stitch can also put it behind. Here, too, you should contact the person who is supposedly behind it on a different way than via WhatsApp.