Take It Down is a program from NCMEC, supported by Meta, which is designed to help teens take back control of their intimate images and help prevent people — whether it’s scammers, ex-partners, or anyone else — from spreading them online. First launched last year in English and Spanish...
Financial sextortion is a horrific crime that can have devastating consequences. Our teams have deep experience in fighting this crime and work closely with experts to recognize the tactics scammers use, understand how they evolve and develop effective ways to help stop them. Like many crimes, fin...
"This industry cooperation is critical because predators don’t limit themselves to just one platform – and the same is true of sextortion scammers," Meta said. "These criminals target victims across the different apps they use, often moving their conversations from one app to another. That’...
WHAT A SCAM.The support "team" sends copy-and-paste emails (same email, just different signature) asking for the same information over and over again. Then, nobody looks at the information at all and they provide you with one of two things...1. A "solution" completely unrelated to ...
engaged in suspicious activity, i.e. copyright infringement. At this stage, the scammers appear to give the victims the option to appeal the forthcoming suspension by clicking on the “Continue” button, but all this does is help the scammers get closer to their eventual goal of account ...
is a horrific crime that can have devastating consequences,” the company wrote in a blog post. “Our teams have deep experience in fighting this crime and work closely with experts to recognize the tactics scammers use, understand how they evolve and develop effective ways to help stop them....
“Angel I need help” to bring up the virtual reality assistant. Like everything else we’ve seen in this VR system the “angel” rezzes up from a point cloud, although much more quickly than the architecture: people who need help tend to be more impatient and less interested in pausing...
Scammers tricked Facebook users into providing credentials by offering a tool that allegedly reported visitors to their profiles. Data in the archive to establish the identity also included email addresses, names and phone numbers of victims who registered on the fraudulent bitcoin site. Experts have...
Scammers tricked Facebook users into providing credentials by offering a tool that allegedly reported visitors to their profiles. Data in the archive to establish the identity also included email addresses, names and phone numbers of victims who registered on the fraudulent bitcoin site. Experts have...
Meta said it uses sophisticated technology, hires child safety experts, reports content to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and shares information and tools with other companies and law enforcement, including state attorneys general, to help root out predators. ...