{"id":10429,"date":"2023-06-16T14:38:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T12:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/16\/victims-speak-out-over-tsunami-of-fraud-on-instagram-facebook-and-whatsapp\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T14:38:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T12:38:36","slug":"victims-speak-out-over-tsunami-of-fraud-on-instagram-facebook-and-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/16\/victims-speak-out-over-tsunami-of-fraud-on-instagram-facebook-and-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Victims speak out over \u2018tsunami\u2019 of fraud on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Calls for Meta to curb rise in scams on its platforms, which will cost UK households \u00a3250m this year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jun\/16\/crypto-scam-advertised-on-facebook-cost-victim-her-life-savings\">Mental anguish\u2019: how a crypto scam advertised on Facebook cost victim her life savings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jun\/16\/victim-of-hi-mum-on-whatsapp-lost-1600\">\u2018I felt stupid and embarrassed\u2019: victim of \u2018Hi Mum\u2019 fraud on WhatsApp lost \u00a31,600<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jun\/16\/instagram-scam-i-spent-1200-on-clothes-for-my-son-that-never-arrived\">Instagram scam: \u2018I spent \u00a31,200 on clothes for my son that never arrived\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The social media giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/meta\">Meta<\/a> is facing growing pressure from MPs, consumer groups and the UK banking sector over its failure to prevent a \u201ctsunami\u201d of fraud on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, where Britons are losing \u201clife-changing\u201d sums every day.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as a Guardian investigation reveals the human stories behind scams that originate on Meta\u2019s platforms, with a nationwide estimate released this week predicting the tech firm\u2019s failure to stamp out fraud will cost UK households <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jun\/14\/tsb-facebook-instagram-owner-protect-users-fraud-meta-bank-uk\">\u00a3250m<\/a> during 2023.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jun\/16\/victims-speak-out-over-fraud-on-instagram-facebook-and-whatsapp\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/47387f9f14142ce28963837eec48a4f006d0831d\/1_0_4998_3000\/master\/4998.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=45e8b8ff57f910a225c23f3029309119\" title=\"Victims speak out over \u2018tsunami\u2019 of fraud on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp\" \/>Exclusive: Calls for Meta to curb rise in scams on its platforms, which will cost UK households \u00a3250m this year<\/p>\n<p>Mental anguish\u2019: how a crypto scam advertised on Facebook cost victim her life savings<br \/>\n\u2018I felt stupid and embarrassed\u2019: victim of \u2018Hi Mum\u2019 fraud on WhatsApp lost \u00a31,600<br \/>\nInstagram scam: \u2018I spent \u00a31,200 on clothes for my son that never arrived\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The social media giant Meta is facing growing pressure from MPs, consumer groups and the UK banking sector over its failure to prevent a \u201ctsunami\u201d of fraud on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, where Britons are losing \u201clife-changing\u201d sums every day.<br \/>\nIt comes as a Guardian investigation reveals the human stories behind scams that originate on Meta\u2019s platforms, with a nationwide estimate released this week predicting the tech firm\u2019s failure to stamp out fraud will cost UK households \u00a3250m during 2023. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Calls for Meta to curb rise in scams on its platforms, which will cost UK households \u00a3250m this year Mental anguish\u2019: how a crypto scam advertised on Facebook cost victim her life savings \u2018I felt stupid and embarrassed\u2019: victim of \u2018Hi Mum\u2019 fraud on WhatsApp lost \u00a31,600 Instagram scam: \u2018I spent \u00a31,200 on clothes &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/16\/victims-speak-out-over-tsunami-of-fraud-on-instagram-facebook-and-whatsapp\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Victims speak out over \u2018tsunami\u2019 of fraud on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}