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NEW DELHI: WhatsApp has launched a new \u2018safety overview\u2019, which will alert a user when someone not in their contact adds them to a new WhatsApp group that they may not recognise, as the Meta\u2019s messaging platform intensified its crackdown on scams and frauds.<\/p>\n

The safety overview will contain key information about the said group and tips to stay safe, it said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom there, you can exit the group without ever having to look at the chat. And if you think you might recognise the group after seeing the safety overview, you can choose to see the chat for more context,\u201d according to WhatsApp.<\/p>\n

And notifications from the group will be silenced until the user marks that they do wish to stay.<\/p>\n

Meta\u2019s messaging platform further said it is exploring ways to caution users when they start a chat with someone not in the contacts by showing more context about the person they are messaging to. This, it hopes, will enable informed decisions.<\/p>\n

WhatsApp said it also takes down attempts by criminal scam centres, often fuelled by forced labour and operated by organised crime primarily in South East Asia.<\/p>\n

In the first six months this year, as part of its efforts to protect people from scams, WhatsApp and Meta\u2019s security teams detected and banned over 6.8 million accounts linked to scam centres.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on our investigative insights into the latest enforcement efforts, we proactively detected and took down accounts before scam centres were able to operationalise them,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

Citing an instance of such crackdown, it said recently WhatsApp, Meta and OpenAI disrupted scamsters\u2019 efforts that had links to a criminal scam centre in Cambodia.<\/p>\n

These attempts ranged from offering payments for fake likes to enlisting others into a rent-a-scooter pyramid scheme, or luring people to invest in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs OpenAI reported, the scammers used ChatGPT to generate the initial text message containing a link to a WhatsApp chat, and then quickly directed the target to Telegram where they were assigned a task of liking videos on TikTok. The scammers attempted to build trust in their scheme by sharing how much the target has already \u2018earned\u2019 in theory, before asking them to deposit money into a crypto account as the next task,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

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