{"id":177329,"date":"2025-09-20T05:15:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=177329"},"modified":"2025-09-20T05:15:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:15:32","slug":"whatsapp-bans-6-8m-scam-linked-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=177329","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp Bans 6.8m Scam-Linked Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News Investigators\/ WhatsApp says it has banned over 6.8 million accounts linked to criminal scam centres and introduced new safety features to protect users and prevent fraud on the platform. The Vice President of Public Policy for Africa, Middle East and T\u00fcrkiye at Meta, Kojo Boakye&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newsinvestigatorsng.com\/whatsapp-bans-6-8m-scam-linked-accounts\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Investigators\/ WhatsApp says it has banned over 6.8 million accounts linked to criminal scam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177329-whatsapp-bans-6-8m-scam-linked-accounts.jpeg",700,390,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177329-whatsapp-bans-6-8m-scam-linked-accounts-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177329-whatsapp-bans-6-8m-scam-linked-accounts-300x167.jpeg",300,167,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177329-whatsapp-bans-6-8m-scam-linked-accounts.jpeg",640,357,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177329-whatsapp-bans-6-8m-scam-linked-accounts.jpeg",640,357,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177329-whatsapp-bans-6-8m-scam-linked-accounts.jpeg",700,390,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177329-whatsapp-bans-6-8m-scam-linked-accounts.jpeg",700,390,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177329-whatsapp-bans-6-8m-scam-linked-accounts.jpeg",700,390,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177329-whatsapp-bans-6-8m-scam-linked-accounts.jpeg",700,390,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177329-whatsapp-bans-6-8m-scam-linked-accounts-590x390.jpeg",590,390,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/177330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}