Innocent whatsapp “text bomb” can crash your phone

An innocent looking whatsapp “text bomb”, if opened, can harm your phone by slowing it down ultimately crashing the operating system of the device.
The message, shared on Reddit, looks like- “This is very interesting!? Read More”. Once you tap on the “Read More”. the bug will slow down your device eventually crashing it down. The users have to restart the device for further usage, it was reported.

According to experts, users get such messages with “Read More” more often than not, but they have to be careful while tapping on the option because the bugs are created in such a way those will overload the smartphone’s operating system. Presently, these bugs can only crash Windows PCs and Android phones.
However, the experts assured that these bugs could not damage your phone permanently once you restart your device. To avoid such inconvenience, the users have to delete the message as soon as they receive the message. Facebook messenger blocks these messages for being potentially harmful but iMessage can’t do so till now.

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