{"id":953578,"date":"2025-08-08T09:18:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T03:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=953578"},"modified":"2025-08-08T09:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T04:27:06","slug":"whatsapp-launches-safety-overview-tool-bans-6-8-mn-accounts-linked-to-scam-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/08\/whatsapp-launches-safety-overview-tool-bans-6-8-mn-accounts-linked-to-scam-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp launches \u2018Safety Overview\u2019 tool; bans 6.8 mn accounts linked to scam centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has launched a new \u2018safety overview\u2019, which will alert a user when someone not in their contact adds them to a new WhatsApp group that they may not recognise, as the Meta messaging platform intensified its crackdown on scams and frauds. <\/p>\n<p>The safety overview will contain key information about the said group and tips to stay safe, it said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom there, you can exit the group without ever having to look at the chat. And if you think you might recognise the group after seeing the safety overview, you can choose to see the chat for more context,\u201d according to WhatsApp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has launched a new \u2018safety overview\u2019, which will alert a user when someone not in their contact adds them to a new WhatsApp group that they may not recognise, as the Meta messaging platform intensified its crackdown on scams and frauds. The safety overview will contain key information about the said group and tips to stay safe, it said. \u201cFrom there, you can exit the group without ever having to look at the chat. And if you think you might recognise the group after seeing the safety overview, you can choose to see the chat for more context,\u201d according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}