Meta is trying to find people who have created more than 39,000 fraudulent sites

Meta is taking action to disrupt a major fraud campaign. Monday, the company to “open notifications”Of a group of people who created more than 39,000 fraudulent pages using Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to direct their login credentials.

The company claims that the hijackers used the Ngrok communication system to send people to their sites in a way that allowed them to hide their activities. “This has helped them to hide the true nature of fraudulent websites, as well as those who support them online and those who are accused,” Meta said. Starting last March, the company began working on a telecommunications service to stop “thousands” of URLs linked to campaigns.

This is not the first time a criminal prosecution has attempted to stamp out a fraudulent campaign. In 2019 and 2020, the company filed lawsuits and , registrars of two domain names that allowed cybersquatters to copy domains such as instagrambusinesshelp.com and whatsappdownload.site. However, the size of this campaign seems to be the same as that of OnlineNIC and Namecheap. When Meta sued the company for the last time in 2020, it said it had registered 45 dams that were clearly designed to disturb the public.