As a result they issued advice on what the scams look like as well as how to avoid and report them, reports the Liverpool Echo. Which? reported that earlier this year Action Fraud warned it had received 1,235 reports of criminals posing as loved ones in need on WhatsApp between February 3 and June 21, amounting to a total financial loss of £1.5m. The fraudsters target parents by pretending to be their children and asking them to send money to help them out in emergencies. The scam originally started doing the rounds on WhatsApp but now it has been spotted on a number of text messages too, according to Which? consumer experts. The feature isn’t live yet as it was spotted in the beta, but we expect that it should eventually be rolled out to users in a future update to the app.Parents are being warned about 'hi mum' scam messages which are increasingly being used by fraudsters to con people out of money.

Telegram already allows users to create channels/group chats with over 1,000 users which is useful for companies who are looking for a way to broadcast information to users other than your typical social media platforms.īy allowing for bigger group chats, perhaps WhatsApp is hoping that businesses will start to consider using its platform for similar operations. Now, like we said, 512 is plenty for a lot of users, so 1,024 users does feel a bit like overkill, but there could be a good reason for that.Īt the moment, WhatsApp competes with other messenger platforms like Telegram.

In a report from WABetaInfo, they have discovered that WhatsApp is planning to increase the maximum number of users in a group chat, going from 512 users to a whopping 1,024 users in total. Right now, WhatsApp group chats have a limit of 512 people, which honestly for the most part is way more than necessary for a lot of users, but it seems that WhatsApp thinks it could be bigger. WhatsApp group chats are a useful way to stay in contact with friends, family members, and colleagues.

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