The app de mensajería instantánea Facebook Messenger, ahora podrá advertir a los usuarios cuando se reciban mensajes sospechosos de persons que no se tienen como contactos, y también cuando someone tries to impersonate a Facebook friend.
Warning messages for possible scams
Every day thousands of people are victims of scams by Facebook Messenger, and there are many methods for this, so Facebook Messenger decided to take action on the matter, and include a new feature that alert people when suspicious messages are received.
The social network está lanzando una nueva característica para Messenger, que mostrará una ventana emergente en la aplicación, cuando una persona recibe un mensaje de alguien que podría estar tratando de estafarla o enviar mensajes «potencialmente dañinos».
The application will search for potentially suspicious messages from strangers, […] warning users to "beware of money claims" when they receive a message from someone who is not yet among their friends.
Likewise, Facebook Messenger will also warn about identity theft cases:
The app will also search for messages that come from accounts that may be trying to pose as a Facebook friend. When Messenger detects that this could be happening, it will warn users that the person they are messaging may be pretending to be someone they know.
Facebook Messenger will also warn minors
Not all scams on Facebook are directly related to money, many of these have darker purposes, such as the sexual exploitation of minors, and Facebook Messenger will now also alert minors to this threat:
For minors, Facebook will show the warning when they receive a message from an adult they don't know. The alert "educates people under 18 to be cautious when interacting with an adult they may not know and empowers them to take action before responding to a message."
It is important to note that the messages are currently encrypted, but end-to-end encryption is not used (except for secret conversations), which means that Facebook Messenger tiene la capacidad de escanear el contents de las conversaciones to warn users against scams and scams.
However, in anticipation of the adoption of end-to-end encryption as a standard for instant messaging, the company plans to use other "signals" to warn its users, especially in the area of child protection, as you have done previously.
