Meta Close 7 Million Whatsapp Account Fraudsters, the majority from Southeast Asia

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Meta closed nearly 7 million accounts
WhatsApp
related to fraud.Of these, as many as 6.8 million fraudsters came from the Southeast Asian region.
WhatsApp External Director Clair Deevy said that his party had identified the accounts before closing it.
“Our team identified these accounts and deactivated them before the criminal organization that made these accounts can use them,” said WhatsApp External Affairs Director, Clair Deevy, launched
Channel News Asia
, Tuesday (5/8).
These fraud accounts are often run by organized criminal groups.These frauds range from the investment of fake crypto currencies to the Rich Fast Pyramid scheme.
“There is always such a thing as fraud, and this should be a sign of danger for everyone: You have to pay in advance to get the promised profit or income,” WhatsApp said in the Meta blog post on his official page.
According to Meta, WhatsApp detects and blocks more than 6.8 million accounts related to fraud centers, mostly in Southeast Asia.
“Armed with the results of internal investigations and collaboration with law enforcement, these accounts were successfully stopped proactively before they were used by the perpetrators to carry out their fraud,” WhatsApp said in his official statement.
WhatsApp and Meta recently collaborated with OpenAI to thwart fraud that was traced to Cambodia.The perpetrators used chatgpt to produce text messages containing links to WhatsApp chat with the aim of attracting victims.
Meta asks WhatsApp users to be vigilant when added to the chat group that is not known by people they do not know.
WhatsApp also has just launched a new feature to protect its users from online fraud experiments.
According to Meta, this is based on that fraudsters are targeting users of messaging applications with various modes, ranging from seemingly tempting offers to pyramid schemes that promise money in a short time.
Responding to this issue, WhatsApp continues to strengthen user protection by adding a new layer of security that supports machine learning technology in detecting and blocking a mass fraud account.
WhatsApp now also presents a variety of protection features, such as context cards, ease of blocking and reporting suspicious messages, features for unknown caller, and privacy settings that give control users to anyone who can add me to the group.
(DMI/DMI)
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