Author Topic: WhatsApp number mix up?  (Read 1335 times)

Cudzoziemiec

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WhatsApp number mix up?
« on: 29 April, 2023, 05:25:19 pm »
I've just had a call from a friend, saying he's had a WhatsApp message appear under my number but with content indicating it had come from someone else. He called this third person, who I don't know, and they confirmed they'd sent the message. They wondered if the message had also appeared on my phone, which it hasn't. There's no similarity in our phone numbers or names and he's not done anything in settings that might mix up like this. So what's going on? Has my WA been hacked? Or the other person's? Or his? Or what?
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Re: WhatsApp number mix up?
« Reply #1 on: 29 April, 2023, 07:36:50 pm »
I have had similar happen to me in the past.  A couple of days later it magically rectified itself.  When I replied to the message it went to the right person as in the person who sent the message and not the person the software was pretending had sent it.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: WhatsApp number mix up?
« Reply #2 on: 29 April, 2023, 08:10:31 pm »
So probably the software being soft rather than anyone being hacked? That's reassuring.
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