India warned about scam app ads on August 26. Five days later, they were still running

You can access the government advisory from here India’s cybercrime coordination centre warned on August 26, 2026, that fraudulent Android apps posing as pornography services were being advertised on Facebook and Instagram to steal banking credentials. Five days later, Reuters found at least 39 such ads still running . Meta removed them on August 31 — after Reuters asked about them.