Snap is rolling out intense new protections for teenagers’ Snapchat accounts in an effort to “address a growing trend of sophisticated sextortion scams.” Among them are new warnings and automatic friend request blocks targeting accounts that may be bad actors.The features are aimed at stemming the tide of sextortion scams, the company writes in a blog post about the changes. The scams,…
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Snap adds new warnings and region blocks to address teen ‘sextortion’ scams
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