How To Prevent Unknown Persons From Adding You Telegram or WhatsApp Groups

Here is how you control who can add you to a WhatsApp or telegram groups, with the aid of this privacy settings seeing yourself in anonymous groups either on WhatsApp or Telegram becomes a thing of the past, read on to figure out how to set this group privacy on WhatsApp and Telegram.

WhatsApp and Telegram is one of the chat messenger for mass grouping, WhatsApp has a limitation of 257 persons per group while Telegram can contain as much as 100000 persons on a group or Channel, with the aid of this groups and channels business and blogs update their clients and members with latest information and updates.

However, some persons has turned Telegram into a Scam venture, these scams are perpetuated on their various groups, they can disguise the group as a pair to pair investment platforms, Bitcoin or forex trading, Binary, E currencies exchange etc, then add people(their supposed victims) to the group without their consent, and probably scam the gullible ones, so here is how to prevent yourself from getting added to such groups.

How To Prevent Unknown Persons From Adding You To A Telegram Group

Follow the instructions below to set tight your Telegram privacy and prevent anonymous from adding you to groups:

1~ Open Your Telegram app and Navigate to Settings

2~ Then On Privacy and Security

3~ Then select Groups, then set it to Contacts, with that only those you have in your contact will have the right to add to Telegram group

Also you can limit(prohibit) any of your contact from adding you to groups, to do so click on Never allow option, then select the contact and save it

How To Prevent Unknown Persons From Adding You To A WhatsApp Groups

To set up group privacy on Whatsapp follow the instructions below:

1~ Open Your WhatsApp settings

2~ Then on account, then Privacy, then on Groups

3

~ Now Select my contacts or my contacts except if you want to prohibit some contacts from adding you to groups too.

That’s it, you are done, Finding yourself into those anonymous and scam groups is now a thing of the past.

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