Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has become the latest prosecutor to publicly criticize Meta, the parent company of Facebook and WhatsApp, accusing it of failing to adequately protect users from online scams.
One such scam has reached North Carolina, where criminals are impersonating Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Raleigh to defraud immigrants seeking legal help.
Scammers have created fake Facebook pages and WhatsApp accounts posing as Catholic Charities, promising pro bono immigration legal services. Instead, they pressure victims into paying fees and then disappear with the money, according to the organization…