WhatsApp launches ‘STOP. THINK. CALL.’ campaign to stamp out message-based scams

WhatsApp is launching the STOP. THINK. CALL., in partnership with the National Trading Standards’ Friends Against Scams campaign. The campaign aims to help educate the public on how to protect themselves and their WhatsApp account from message-based scams. Almost three fifths of Brits (59%) say they have received a message-based scam in the last year – or know someone who has. According to recent research, these types of scam messages have been sent both via SMS text message (46%), or WhatsApp (13%), and unfortunately appear to be increasingly common. WhatsApp…

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