WhatsApp will add a chat preview to prevent scams: "There's always a catch, and that should be a red flag for everyone."

Every so often, one of the most popular instant messaging apps adds new features. WhatsApp, whose success lies in these new updates, which, in addition to adding new features for users, also increase security, such as the addition of the new chat preview.

As reported by Europa Press, WhatsApp will display a preview with information about a group or a person who isn't a contact to help raise awareness among users about the possibility of being scammed.

Meta has removed 6.8 million WhatsApp accounts linked to criminal scam centers targeting online users worldwide in the first six months of 2025.

This effort to combat scams on its messaging platform is supported by measures for users themselves, which the company has just expanded with new features designed to provide more information about unknown groups and individuals , as reported in a statement.

On the one hand, the messaging service will display what it calls a security view , a screen with information about a group when someone unknown tries to add the user.

In this view, in addition to information such as the creation date and number of members, tips on how to safely respond to this type of unsolicited contact will also be displayed.

Regarding one-on-one chats, WhatsApp is exploring ways to warn users when they try to start a conversation with someone who isn't a contact . To do this, it will display information about the person so they can decide whether to continue the conversation.

These measures respond to a large-scale scam , which usually begins with a text message or on a dating app, and then moves to a private messaging app, such as WhatsApp.

In these cases, scammers " try to play on people's financial anxiety and seek to trick them with too-good-to-be-true offers and pyramid schemes to make a quick buck," the company notes, warning: "There's always a catch, and this should be a red flag for everyone: you have to pay upfront to get any promised returns or profits."