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The tech giant says the new features are designed to alert users before they engage with something suspicious.

Users will be alerted about suspicious activities like unrecognized device linking and friend requests.

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Facebook and Messenger will now warn users about suspicious accounts, while WhatsApp will flag potentially harmful device linking.

Meta has launched AI-powered anti-scam tools across WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger, while a law enforcement operation disabled 150,000 scam network accounts.

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Meta is adding a new scam-prevention feature to WhatsApp that will warn you when a new device link could be a scam.