Technology has also made dating online and now people are looking for love for themselves on social media and dating apps. Scammers are also taking advantage of this and losing people in the name of dating. Nowadays romance scams are increasing worldwide, due to which people are suffering heavy losses. To stop this, META has announced to bring a new feature. Let’s know how this feature will work.
What are romance scams?
In romance scam, cyber criminals use fake profiles to win the victim’s trust and love. They try to steal or cause financial harm to the victim by confusing romantic or close relationship. On social media or dating apps, they show themselves as an attractive, single and successful person to implicate people in their trap.
New feature bringing META
To stop the romance scam, the company has said that it is doing a new feature test. First of all it will come on Instagram. This feature will send a safety notice to the users before chatting with those accounts, who have been involved in any suspicious activity before. With the help of this notice, the users will be able to know that the account with which they are going to interact with have made some mess before. Later, it will also be available on WhatsApp and Facebook.
How to work on Whatsapp?
After this feature on WhatsApp, users will get a lot of convenience. Actually, the company is going to give a togal, after turning on, WhatsApp users will automatically recommend video and voice calls coming from unknown numbers.
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