WhatsApp says more than 6.8 million fraud -related accounts
Its mother company Meta says that WhatsApp has reduced 6.8 million accounts linked to scammers who target people all over the world in the first half of this year.
Many of them were linked to the fraud centers run by organized criminals in Southeast Asia, who often used forced work in their operations, according to the social media giant.
Meta released this advertisement as published by WhatsApp Scam control measures To alert users to a possible fraudulent activity, such as adding the user to a group chat by a person who is not in their list of contacts.
The campaign targets an increasingly common tactic in which criminals are kidnapped on WhatsApp accounts or add users to group chat that promote fake investment plans and other fraud.
Mita said that WhatsApp “was proactively discovered and the accounts were lowered before the fraud centers can run them.”
In one case, WhatsApp worked with Meta and Chatgpt-Deleper Openai to disable fraud associated with a Cambodian criminal set that miraculously provided miraculous money on social media to promote a fake resonance pyramid plan.
She said the fraudsters used Chatgpt to create instructions issued to potential victims.
The fraudsters usually communicate first with possible goals with a text message before transferring the conversation to social media or private correspondence applications, Meta said.
This was usually completed by this fraud on payment platforms or cryptocurrencies.
“There is always hunting and it must be a red mark for everyone: you have to pay in advance to get returns or profits.”
It is known that the fraud centers that cheat on people of billions of dollars work from Southeast Asian countries such as Myanmar, Cambodia and Thailand.
These centers are also known to recruit people who then have to carry out fraud.
The authorities in the region urged people to be careful of potential fraud and the use of Scam’s anti -control measures, such as the WhatsApp, to help protect their accounts from kidnapping.
In Singapore, for example, the police told the users to be concerned about any unusual requests they receive on messaging applications.