WhatsApp, owned by Meta, has deleted 6.8 million accounts linked to criminal scam centers worldwide during the first half of the year.

The account removals are part of a broader crackdown by Meta on scams targeting people across various online platforms.

The big picture: Meta announced new safety tools on WhatsApp to help users spot and avoid scams, including a safety overview that appears when someone outside a user’s contacts adds them to a group. • Additional test alerts are being introduced to encourage users to pause and think before responding to suspicious messages.

Driving the news: Scams have become more common and increasingly sophisticated, often featuring too-good-to-be-true offers and unsolicited messages trying to steal personal information or money. • Criminal scam ce

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