Many of the accounts were linked to criminal groups operating in South East Asia, the social media giant said.

Meta removed 6.8 million spam accounts on WhatsApp this year as scammers exploit economic anxiety with crypto and pyramid ...

The company announced that it took down over 6.8 million WhatsApp accounts linked to criminal scam centers targeting people ...

WhatsApp has shared a new update about how it prevents scams, as well as unveiling a new feature aimed at protecting users ...

This is WhatsApp’s latest effort to tighten the reins on fraud attempts that often start with unsolicited group adds, a ...

WhatsApp has deleted more than 6.8 million accounts allegedly linked to criminal “pig butchering” scam centres worldwide. For ...

Meta has now introduced two new tools to help you identify scams, whether they arrive as individual messages or as posts to group chats … Scamming is big business these days, and it’s common for ...

WhatsApp has rolled out a ‘Safety Overview’ feature to protect users from being added to unknown groups, as part of a broader ...

In response, Meta has announced new security updates aimed at protecting users from being tricked in group chats and ...

Meta on Tuesday began prompting WhatsApp users to be wary when added to unfamiliar chat groups by people they don't know ...

WhatsApp has removed more than 6.8 million accounts linked to international scams in the first half of this year, according ...