Fake puppies and phony offers of mouthwatering bargains are often seeded by overseas crime networks; employees say company is ...

In Meta’s own words, its platforms are affected by an ’epidemic of spams’. Despite such acknowledgement, scam enforcement does not appear to be a priority for Meta.

Meta's platforms are under scrutiny for allowing scam ads, with reports of fraud linked to Zelle transactions. Critics ...

A spokesperson for Meta, the parent company of social media behemoths Instagram and Facebook, tells the Wall Street Journal that the corporate giant is dealing with “an epidemic of scams” that ...

Romance scams begin all over the internet, from criminals blasting out messages on Facebook to hundreds of victims at a time, to others matching with every profile they see on dating apps.

Meta also said it had removed thousands of Facebook pages dedicated to sharing tips on how to operate such scams, including scripts to convince targets to share explicit pictures of themselves.

Facebook was the platform used for 90% of those sales, Finextra said. "Less discussed" are the romance scams, when the con artist strikes up a "feigned emotional bond" with their victim before ...

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram ... said that the company is working to address “an epidemic of scams” that has grown in scale and complexity in recent years ...