Meta adds more scam detection tools: Facebook alerts for suspicious friend requests, WhatsApp device linking warnings, and advanced scam detection on Messenger
Users will be alerted about suspicious activities like unrecognized device linking and friend requests.
The Verge Jess Weatherbed
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Today we're launching new tools on @facebook, @whatsapp, and @messenger to help protect against scams. https://about.fb.com/...
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A big win in the fight against criminal scammers. In our second joint enforcement surge since December, we worked with @DOJ, the @FBI and global law enforcement to take down sophisticated scam networks in Southeast Asia that targeted people in the US, UK, and across Asia and the
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Meta regularly partners with law enforcement to disrupt criminal scam networks based out of southeast Asia. Last week, the Royal Thai Police, FBI, DOJ Scam Center Strike Force and Meta joined together for a Joint Disruption Week in Bangkok, the second in just a few months.
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@usattypirro
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Online scam networks are destroying the financial lives of Americans every day and the criminals running them thought they were untouchable, operating from the other side of the world. Today, some of these criminals found out that U.S. law enforcement will hold them accountable
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Andy Stone
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And, building on the below, here's more evidence of the impact the DOJ Scam Center Strike Force continues to make! @USAO_DC https://about.fb.com/...