Meta on Tuesday said it shut nearly seven million WhatsApp accounts linked to scammers in the first half of this year and is ramping up safeguards against such schemes. “Our team identified the accounts and disabled them before the criminal organizations that created them could use them,

Meta said WhatsApp "proactively detected and took down accounts before scam centres were able to operationalise them."

To help protect users on WhatsApp group messages, for example, Meta is launching a new safety feature that alerts you when someone who’s not in your contacts adds you to a new W