At a time when digital scams are on the rise, WhatsApp has launched a new safety tool designed to help users avoid being roped into suspicious or unfamiliar groups. The feature called “Safety Overview,” will now appear when a person not in your contacts list adds you to a group – a tactic often used by scamsters.

Aug. 6 (UPI) -- WhatsApp has taken down 6.8 million accounts linked to scammers around the world, Meta said. WhatsApp rolled out a new anti-scam measure to alert users of scams. Many of the scams were tied to criminal organizations in South East Asia, according to Meta.

WhatsApp has taken down 6.8 million accounts that were “linked to criminal scam centers” targeting people online around that world, its parent company Meta said this week. The account deletions, which Meta said took place over the first six months of the year,