WhatsApp error 131048
Error 131048: Number limited after spam reports
Error 131048 means Meta is restricting how many messages your number can send, after earlier messages were blocked or flagged as spam. Slow down, check the number’s quality in WhatsApp Manager and send only to people who expect to hear from you.
- Meta’s description
- “Message failed to send because there are restrictions on how many messages can be sent from this phone number.” Meta’s error codes, 5 October 2026
- Charged by Meta?
- No. Meta charges only for delivered messages, and this one was not delivered.
Common causes
- Many recent recipients blocked your number or reported its messages as spam.
- Messages sent to people who did not ask for them, such as an old or bought list.
How to fix it
- Check the number’s quality status in WhatsApp Manager.
- Pause broadcasts, then send only to people who opted in and recently engaged.
- Make templates clearly relevant and easy to opt out of.
What Fliok does about it
- Fliok treats 131048 as permanent and does not retry it.
- It stops any broadcast running on the number and tells your workspace once, instead of one alert per failed message.
Meta sets and changes these codes. If anything here disagrees with Meta’s current reference, Meta is right.
Meta sets and lifts the restriction. What you control is who you send to: fewer blocks and reports are what bring a number back.
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