Meta Removes 63,000 Accounts Linked to Sextortion Scammers
- Purge includes thousands of Groups offering sextortion ‘tips’
- One network of 20 criminals was running 2,500 fake accounts
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Meta Platforms Inc. removed 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria linked to scammers who were using its social media services to blackmail targets after soliciting intimate photos, the company said Wednesday.
Meta, which also owns Facebook and WhatsApp, added that it had deleted thousands of additional Facebook accounts, pages and groups that were sharing scripts on how to blackmail and sexually extort users.