WhatsApp users are being urged to activate a new setting that should help them avoid becoming a scam victim. The new SIlence Unknown Callers feature was added in an upgrade on Tuesday.
It does as you would expect - blocking calls from any numbers that are not in a user's contacts. That should mean that cold callers and scammers trying to get through via WhatsApp will be blocked, reports the Mirror.
WhatsApp said on its blog: "Silence Unknown Callers is designed to give you more privacy and control of your incoming calls. It helps to automatically screen out spam, scams, and calls from unknown people for increased protection."
