Meta is taking action against holiday scams with a global awareness campaign. The company is partnering with experts to educate users about common scams and how to protect themselves.
Scammers are persistent and try to trick people in a variety of ways.As the holiday shopping season kicks off around the world, Meta has launched a global anti-scam awareness campaign to help people stay safe online and on its apps. Scammers are persistent and try to trick people in a variety of ways – malicious texts and emails, websites impersonating known brands, posts on social media, visual discovery platforms, discussion forums and more.
We are sharing the latest relevant safety tools we’ve launched this year on Facebook Marketplace, WhatsApp and Instagram, along with new research into holiday scams across the internet we’ve disrupted on our apps, updates on enforcements against phishing domains and our work with industry peers to protect people online. Meta has partnered with a top internet safety expert and ethical hacker, Rachel Tobac, to share how scammers might be targeting people online this holiday season and how to avoid scams.Meta said in their ongoing detection and enforcement against scams, they also worked with open-source researchers at Graphika to find and disrupt scams that take advantage of the holiday season. Where these scams showed up on our apps, we took action against the scammers behind them, including blocking their websites and taking down their accounts. Here are examples of three common scams to watch out for ahead of the holidays, according to Graphika’s research, Meta said.Meta said it disrupted scammers targeting French-, Spanish- and English-speaking users with false promises of gifts and prizes. They posted photos of fake prizes on multiple apps, including Threads, X, Facebook and online discussion forums like Quora. If someone commented on the posts, the scammers would direct them to messaging apps or to Google Sites websites and ask for details like their email, phone number, address, income level and outstanding debts in order to win the priz
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