Meta removes ~63K Instagram accounts used by sextortion scammers in Nigeria, along with ~7,200 Facebook accounts, Pages, and Groups linked to the Yahoo Boys
- Purge includes thousands of Groups offering sextortion ‘tips’ — One network of 20 criminals was running 2,500 fake accounts
Bloomberg Olivia Carville
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- In May, I reported on 16 Yahoo Boys Facebook groups with almost 200,000 members. (They were removed at the time). A search on Facebook today easily finds Yahoo Boy scam groups still in existence—one with 13,000 members is openly advertising dating scams and the sale of women's images that can be used as part of scam messages Story from May: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange · Matt Burgess
Discussion
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@Catawu@mastodon.social
Cat West
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It only took a decade or so. I know a woman who was trying to stop the sextortion of minors on FB back in 2012, and was told she had made too many complaints. She had identified over 50 cases. She was a support worker on the rez. https://www.castanet.net/...
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@livcarville
Olivia Carville
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🚨Six weeks after my @BW cover story on sextortion scams driving teens to suicide, @Meta carried out a mass purge. Today, it announced it's removed 63,000 (😱) fake accounts linked to sextortion scammers in Nigeria. Holy cow; 63,000. https://www.bloomberg.com/...