Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has deleted 63,000 Nigerian Instagram accounts targeting people with financial sextortion scams.
The removed accounts include a coordinated network of around 2,500 accounts. The firm revealed this in a report titled, ‘Combating Financial Sextortion Scams From Nigeria.’ Meta stated that financial sextortion is a horrific crime that can have devastating consequences.
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The tech giant highlighted that it removed a set of Facebook accounts, Pages, and Groups run by Yahoo Boys under its Dangerous Organisations and Individuals policy.
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