Scammers no longer add me to WhatsApp groups.

A year or so ago, I started being added to these WhatsApp “investment” group chats along with hundreds of other random UK numbers.

The admins would talk about what a great opportunity this was for us and how they have a proven track record, as well as countless years of experience at top firms like Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs and inevitably, a few bots pretending to be humans would respond to how they were looking forward to working with them and how grateful they were for the opportunity.

Now I’d keep leaving these chats but eventually you’d be added to a new one, over and over again. And you can’t block them because they have endless numbers. So I decided to mess with them, how you ask? By reacting with the Indian flag on every single message they would send. So now you’d look at the chat and just see the Indian flag plastered over every single message.

This annoyed them and from that day on, I have not been added to a single chat.