What happens when you report spam on WhatsApp?

Here is what happens when you report spam on whatsapp On your phone 1. Contact and their chats with you are hidden and in background deleted from your phone 2. If an individual user, there name is in the blocked contact list 3. read more

Report spam is a feature that allows you to report unknown numbers/messages. When you report a number as spam, the number is added to WhatsApp’s watchlist and if that number has been reported as spam multiple times, then they are issued a 24 hour ban. read more

The WhatsApp group which is reported spam will be kept under watch. If more number of spam report reaches their headquarters, they deactivate the group for a temporary period. If again the spam reported during the second tenure, the group will be deactivated permanently. read more

However, there was no way for you to tell WhatsApp whether you were blocking a number for personal reasons or because they were actually sending spam messages. That behavior has changed somewhere between version 2.12.12 and 2.12.30 (that's as far as I could narrow it down to). read more