billions of users of popular social media apps.Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, was forced to take legal action to try and stop the scam affecting millions of users on its platforms Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.The sites are hugely popular and Facebook is the world's biggest social media networking site.
Statista recorded a whopping 2.89 billion monthly active users in the second quarter of 2021 on Facebook, alone.In the first quarter of 2021, the company stated that 3.51 billion people were using at least one of Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, or Messenger every month.It means that any scam that targets these sites have the possibility of affecting a huge amount of people.So what is the scam?A common phishing scam, that.
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