New York: (Web Desk) Meta shut down 63,000 Instagram accounts for sexually blackmailing people.
About 63,000 accounts have been shut down in the African country of Nigeria, Metta said, most of which were involved in the financial sexual exploitation of adult men in the United States who edited photos uploaded to various Instagram accounts. Used to blackmail.
Online fraudsters from Nigeria known as 'Yahoo Boys' target people with the pretense of making money. A Nigerian prince is said to have offered a fantastic return on investment.
Meta said in a statement that there were 63,000 such accounts on Instagram, while 7,200 Facebook accounts, pages and groups involved in the fraud have also been removed.
The leading company also dismantled a small integrated network of about 2,500 accounts that was run by a group of about 20 people.
In this sexual extortion, or 'sex solicitation', people are threatened that their sexual images, real or fake, will be released on social media, threatening to pay them if they don't want it. Will be.
A Meta representative said this is not the first time they have taken down such networks, but is disclosing the current operation to "raise awareness" among users.
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