WhatsApp adds new features to protect against fraud

The company announced on Tuesday that WhatsApp offers new features to help people discover the process of charter service. The company also said it had decreased more than 6.8 million WhatsApp accounts linked to criminal fraud centers targeting people all over the world.

The new features are designed to help discover fraud in both the group and the individual chats on the description -owned platform.

For group chats, WhatsApp operates the safety look feature that will be displayed when someone who is not in your contact menu adds you to a new set that you may not recognize. Safety Overview will include basic information about the group, as well as tips for safe survival.

For example, you will see if the person who added you is one of your contacts, and if any member of the group is your contact.

If you decide that you can recognize the group, you can choose to see a chat for more context. Either way, notifications from the chat will be concealed until you put a sign that you want to stay in the group.

For individual chats, WhatsApp notes that fraudsters may try to start talks with you elsewhere on the Internet before requesting sending a message to private messaging services such as WhatsApp. To protect from this tactic, the application tests new ways to alert people before they start talking to someone who can try to score.

For example, she works to be careful when starting a chat with someone not in their contacts by showing an additional context about who are the correspondence.

WhatsApp also shared information about how he worked alongside Openai to disrupt the fraud efforts that were tracked to a fraud center in Cambodia.

“These attempts ranged from providing payments for fake proverbs to recruit others in the pyramid scheme, or the conflict of people to invest in the encrypted currency,” I explained WhatsApp in A. Blog post.

As Openai said, fraudsters used Chatgpt to create the initial text message that contains a link to the WhatsApp chat, then they quickly directed the target to TELEGRAM, where they were appointed as a task from the videos that appeal to the target on Tiktok. The fraudsters tried to deposit money in the next account.

WhatsApp says that users can protect themselves from fraud by spending time before responding to thinking whether the message reads like a legal mission. They must then ask if the request is logical and if they rush to take action. If they are claiming to be a friend or family member, you should use another communication method to check their identity.