WhatsApp announced on Tuesday, the company announced on Tuesday that people were getting new facilities to help people spot scams on messaging service. The company also said that it has taken over 6.8 million WhatsApp accounts associated with criminal scam centers targeting people around the world.
The new features are designed to help detect scams in both group and individual chats on meta-owned platforms.
For group chat, WhatsApp is launching a safety observation feature that will be displayed when someone who is not in your contact list, adds you to a new group that you cannot identify. Safety observation will include important information about the group, with tips to stay safe.
For example, you will see if the person who connects you is one of your contacts, and if any member of the group is your contact.
If you decide that you can identify the group, you can choose to watch chat for more reference. In any way, information from chat will become silent until you marked that you want to live in a group.
For personal chat, WhatsApp notes that scammers can try to start interaction with you on the Internet before conveying a message on private messaging services like WhatsApp. To save this strategy, the app is testing new ways to warn people, before they start talking to someone who can try to scam them.
For example, it is working for users to take care when they start chatting with someone and not showing them additional reference to whom they are messengers.
WhatsApp also shared information about how it worked with OpenAII, which had returned to a scam center in Cambodia to disrupt the efforts of the scam.
WhatsApp explained in one, “These efforts were to involve others from offering to pay for fake choice, to involve others in the pyramid scheme or to invest people in cryptocurrency.” blog post.
“As Openai reported, scammers used Chatgpt to generate an initial text message with a link to WhatsApp chat, and then quickly directed the target for Telegram, where they were assigned a task of liking videos on tickets. The scammers tried to build confidence in their plan that the target has already earned.
WhatsApp says that users can take time out before thinking and protect themselves from scams whether the message reads like a legitimate task. They should then question whether the request is understood and if they are participating in you. If they are claiming to be a friend or family member, you should use another method of communication to verify their identity.
