{"id":62494,"date":"2024-07-24T12:34:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T12:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=62494"},"modified":"2024-07-24T12:34:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T12:34:31","slug":"facebook-removes-63000-accounts-in-nigeria-over-sextortion-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/24\/facebook-removes-63000-accounts-in-nigeria-over-sextortion-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook removes 63,000 accounts in Nigeria over &#8216;sextortion&#8217; scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24481\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/facebook.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/facebook-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/facebook-293x293.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meta Platforms said on Wednesday it had removed about 63,000 Facebook accounts in Nigeria that attempted to engage in financial sexual extortion scams mostly aimed at adult men in the United States.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/facebook-removes-63-000-accounts-in-nigeria-over-sextortion-scams\/ar-BB1qxQej?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Meta Platforms said on Wednesday it had removed about 63,000 Facebook accounts in Nigeria that attempted to engage in financial sexual extortion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Meta.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62495,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62494\/revisions\/62495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}