Meta adds new WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger anti-scam tools

Meta is deploying new anti-scam protections across WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger to detect and warn users about device-linking scams, impersonation, deceptive links, and suspicious friend requests; the report also highlights a phishing campaign by Russian state-backed actors targeting Dutch government employees' Signal and WhatsApp accounts and summarizes global takedowns of massive scam networks that led to arrests and millions of removed scam accounts and ads.