About suspicious links
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You might see a suspicious link indicator for some links that you receive in a chat. This indicator might appear when a link contains an unusual combination of characters. Spammers use character combinations to trick you into tapping on links. These links might appear to go to legitimate websites, but actually take you to a harmful site.
Example of a suspicious link
Here’s an example of a suspicious link: https://ẉhatsapp.com/free-tickets.
You’ll notice the first character looks like the letter "w" but is instead the character "ẉ." This means a spammer is trying to trick you into visiting a website that isn’t actually associated with WhatsApp and that may expose you to harm.
How to protect yourself
When receiving links, carefully review the content of the message. If a link is marked suspicious, you can tap the link and a pop-up message will appear. The message will highlight any unusual characters within the link. If the sender is one of your contacts, you can choose to open the link from the WhatsApp message, or go back to the chat. When you receive a suspicious link from someone not saved to your contacts, you can’t open the link until you add the user to your contacts or reply to the message. .
WhatsApp automatically performs checks to determine if a link is suspicious. To protect your privacy, these checks take place entirely on your device. Remember, because of end-to-end encryption, WhatsApp can’t see the content of your messages.
Note: When a message contains a suspicious link, you can’t open the link from the message preview on your device.
To learn more, read this article.
