SEOUL: A group of South Korean television personalities and media personalities on Friday called on major social media platforms such as YouTube and Meta, which operate Facebook and Instagram, to take action against growing online phishing scams by exploiting their identities. More than 130 “Over the past year, phishing scams have been targeting well-known or influential figures on Facebook and Instagram, such as former presidents, gang leaders, entertainers, and YouTubers,” according to a joint statement issued by the coalition.
People including comedians, YouTubers and financial figures, Yonhap news agency reported. “But it turns out that the world’s best platform companies with cutting-edge technologies have no system in place to pre-filter fraudulent ads,” it said. Citing police figures, he said there had been more than 1,000 cases of losses worth about 120 billion won ($89.7 million) involving financial investment advice between September and December last year. For, they called for global social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, as well as local platform companies including Naver and Kakao, to implement systems to pre-emptively detect and block faulty advertisements.
He also called on the South Korean government to set up an investigation team dedicated to combating online phishing scams. A spokesperson for Google, which operates YouTube, said on condition of anonymity, “Keeping our platform safe is Google’s priority. is the highest priority.” “We have strict policies in place to ban them and our dedicated team works around the clock to comprehensively enforce these policies, taking decisive action against scammers, including removing offending ads and Meta also said it will continue its efforts to create a safe and trusted environment for its platforms, the report said.
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2024-03-23 11:55:14