New York (AP) – WhatsApp has taken 6.8 million accounts that “were associated with criminal scam centers” its original company targeting people around the world, its original company Meta Said this week.
The account deletion, which Meta said that it happened in the first six months of the year, arrived as part of the efforts of the comprehensive company. ScamIn a Tuesday’s announcement, Meta stated that it was rolling new equipment on WhatsApp to help people to spot scams – including a new security observation that the platform would show when a person who does not contact user connects them in a group, as well as the ongoing test alert.
Scams are Everything is getting very common And rapidly sophisticated in today’s digital world – with Too good to be true Each day the proposal and unwanted messages that try to steal the information or money of consumers who fill our phone, social media and other corners of the Internet. Meta said that some of the “some of the scam” sources are criminal scam centers, which is often Forced labor Powered by organized crime – and warned that such efforts often target people at several platforms simultaneously, in an attempt to find out.
This means that a scam campaign can begin with messages on the campaign text or dating app, for example, and then on social media and payment platforms, the California -based company said.
Meta, who also owns Facebook and Instagram, pointed out the efforts of recent scams, stating that it has attempted to use his own apps, as well as to offer payments to pay for the choice of tickek, telegram and AI-generated messages in a piramid scheme, to offer people in a piramid scheme. Meta connected these scams to a criminal scam center in Cambodia – and said that it interrupted the campaign in partnership with the Chatgpt Maker Openi,
The Associated Press