WhatsApp Bulk Message Advertising: How Do Deal With It?

Kaustubh Katdare

Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk Oct 26, 2024
Turns out that the ad-spammers are now turning to WhatsApp as it replaces the default SMS. There are several players in this new game that offer bulk messaging via SMS at the rate of 25 paisa per message for a bulk purchase of about 1 lakh messages. The pricing goes down to 23 paisa and 21 paisa for quantities of 2 and 5 lakh bulk purchase. I'm wondering if there can be any method to prevent this!

The ad spammers can even spam you with advertising messages comprising of images, videos and also audio notes. The pricing for images begins at 30p / forward (because forwarding involves data charges). If whatsapp doesn't do anything immediately to control this, I can clearly see that whatsapp will be turned into a spam powerhouse that will be extremely difficult to control.

How do you think whatsapp can control bulk messaging?

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  • Manish Goyal

    Manish Goyal

    @manish-r2Hoep Jan 10, 2015

    by limiting messages to 200 in an hr, if user want to send more then he will be shown a captcha after unlock he can send more