BY JAMEY TUCKER, Consumer Technology Reporter

Scammers will target anyone. Young people are often lured by shopping scams and fake job offers. People in their 30s and 40s fall for impersonation and investment scams. Seniors are targeted with just about everything.

The FBI says Americans over 60 lost nearly five billion dollars to scams last year. Much of it started on social media.

During Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is introducing new tools to help older adults recognize and avoid scams.

Meta reports it deleted nearly eight million fake Facebook and Instagram accounts this year. Many of those accounts were linked to spam centers targeting older users through Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp.

Messenger now includes scam detection in chat.

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