WhatsApp introduces new features to help people find scams in the messaging service, the company announced on Tuesday. The company also said it has reached over 6.8 million WhatsApp accounts linked to criminal fraud centers targeting people around the world.
The new features are designed to help detect fraud in both groups and individual talks on the post-of-post platform.
For group talks, WhatsApp begins a security overview feature that will appear when someone who is not on your contact list adds to a new team you may not recognize. The security review will include basic information about the team, along with tips to stay safe.
For example, you will see if the person who added you is one of your contacts and if a team member is your own contact.
If you decide that you can recognize the team, you can choose to see the conversation for more frame. Either way, the conversations from the conversation will be reduced until you point out that you want to stay in the team.
In terms of individual conversations, WhatsApp notes that scammers may try to start chats with you elsewhere on the internet before asking you to send a message to private messaging services such as Whatsapp. To protect from this tactic, the app tries new ways of warning people before they start talking to someone who could try to cheat on them.
For example, she works to warn users when they start a conversation with someone who is not in their contacts, showing them an additional framework on who are messages.
WhatsApp also shared information on how it worked with Openai to disrupt the fraud attempts found in a Cambodia fraud center.
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“As Openai said, the scammers used Chatgpt to create the original text message containing a link in a Whatsapp conversation and then quickly directs the target on the telegram, where they were assigned to a project already targeted.
Whatsapp says users can be protected from scams taking time before answering to think about whether the message is read as a legal work. They should then question whether the request makes sense and if you are in a hurry to take action. If they claim to be a friend or family member, you should use another communication method to verify their identity.
