{"id":177333,"date":"2025-09-20T05:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=177333"},"modified":"2025-09-20T05:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:15:30","slug":"whatsapp-pulls-down-6-8-million-scam-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=177333","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp Pulls Down 6.8 Million Scam Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICAN EXAMINER) \u2013\u00a0 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. \u00a0The Vice President of Public Policy for Africa, Middle East and T\u00fcrkiye at Meta, Mr Kojo Boakye&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanexaminer.com\/whatsapp-pulls-down-6-8-million-scam-accounts\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICAN EXAMINER) \u2013\u00a0 WhatsApp says it has banned over 6.8 million accounts linked to criminal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177333","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\/177333-whatsapp-pulls-down-6-8-million-scam-accounts.jpg",300,168,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177333-whatsapp-pulls-down-6-8-million-scam-accounts-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177333-whatsapp-pulls-down-6-8-million-scam-accounts.jpg",300,168,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177333-whatsapp-pulls-down-6-8-million-scam-accounts.jpg",300,168,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177333-whatsapp-pulls-down-6-8-million-scam-accounts.jpg",300,168,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177333-whatsapp-pulls-down-6-8-million-scam-accounts.jpg",300,168,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177333-whatsapp-pulls-down-6-8-million-scam-accounts.jpg",300,168,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177333-whatsapp-pulls-down-6-8-million-scam-accounts.jpg",300,168,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177333-whatsapp-pulls-down-6-8-million-scam-accounts.jpg",300,168,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177333-whatsapp-pulls-down-6-8-million-scam-accounts.jpg",300,168,false]},"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\/177333","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=177333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/177334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}