Meta takes down thousands of Facebook accounts running sextortion scams from Nigeria 

FILE - A Meta Portal Go is displayed at a Meta Store in Burlingame, Calif., May 4, 2022. There has been a marked rise in sextortion cases in recent years, fueled in part by a loosely organized group called the Yahoo Boys, operating mainly out of Nigeria, Meta said.

Meta says it has taken down about 63,000 Facebook accounts in Nigeria that were engaging in financial sextortion scams — along with groups and pages that were trying to organize, recruit and train new scammers.