{"id":223802,"date":"2025-10-23T04:14:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/meta-launches-new-anti-scam-tools-for-whatsapp-and-messenger"},"modified":"2025-10-23T04:14:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:14:57","slug":"meta-launches-new-anti-scam-tools-for-whatsapp-and-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/meta-launches-new-anti-scam-tools-for-whatsapp-and-messenger","title":{"rendered":"Meta launches new anti-scam tools for WhatsApp and Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meta-launches-new-anti-scam-tools-for-whatsapp-and-messenger.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meta has announced new tools to help WhatsApp and Messenger users protect themselves from potential scams and secure their accounts.<\/p>\n<p>On Messenger, the company has started testing more advanced scam-detection for suspicious chats that will warn users when a new contact sends a potentially scammy message, giving them the option to send recent messages for AI scam review to check for signs of a scam.<\/p>\n<p>When a potential scam is spotted, users will be alerted and provided a set of suggested actions, such as blocking or reporting the sender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has announced new tools to help WhatsApp and Messenger users protect themselves from potential scams and secure their accounts. On Messenger, the company has started testing more advanced scam-detection for suspicious chats that will warn users when a new contact sends a potentially scammy message, giving them the option to send recent messages for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}