Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has launched a major crackdown on ‘Yahoo Boys,’ deleting 63,000 Nigerian accounts involved in financial sextortion scams. The company removed accounts, including a coordinated network of around 2,500 accounts. It revealed this in
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