63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria that attempted to engage in financial sexual extortion scams mostly aimed at adult men in the United States have been deactivated.
According to Reuters, Meta said in a statement that the removed accounts also included a smaller coordinated network of around 2,500 that were linked to a group of around 20 individuals.
“They targeted primarily adult men in the U.S. and used fake accounts to mask their identities,” Meta said.
In sexual extortion, or “sextortion”, people are threatened with the release of compromising photos, either real or faked, if they do not pay to stop them.
