Meta announced on Tuesday it deleted over 6.8 million WhatsApp accounts linked to criminal activity and rolled out new features to assist users in identifying scams.
"In the first six months of this year, as part of our ongoing proactive work to protect people from scams, WhatsApp detected and banned over 6.8 million accounts linked to scam centers. Based on our investigative insights into the latest enforcement efforts, we proactively detected and took down accounts before scam centers were able to operationalize them," the tech giant's website showed.
WhatsApp is also introducing a safety overview function for group chats for when someone who isn't on your contact list joins you to a new group that you might not recognize. Regarding private conversations, the app is experimenting with new methods to warn users before they engage with someone who might be attempting to scam them.
