Whatsapp recently announced the call feature for its messenger and even since, there has been hoax messages and scams making their rounds on the app.
You don't have to believe everything you read online. The scam seems pretty harmless: you get a message on WhatsApp from someone you know inviting you to try WhatsApp calls. But there's a catch. You have to visit a link that prompts you to wade through advertizing while you invite another 10 friends with the same link. Not surprisingly, even if you invite 10 friends you still won't have calls enabled in WhatsApp.
Following the link will take you to this ''invite your friends'' screen.
It's pretty obvious that this is a scam but it seems to have caught a few off guard. Just be sure that if you see this message crop up in your WhatsApp chats that you ignore it and let whoever sent it to you know that it is a scam. Please pass this information around so your friends don't get taken for a ride.
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