3.6m ‘shell pages’ on Facebook, Instagram found primed for scams after S’pore police tip-off: Meta
Over the past two years, Meta has built an information partnership with Singapore police to target scam networks.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has taken action against 3.64 million "shell pages" in July, found to be primed for scams, according to information from the Singapore Police Force (SPF). These dormant pages, which appear silent and harmless, could be activated to orchestrate massive scam campaigns across the platforms.
In the first half of 2026, Meta and SPF collaborated to dismantle 113,000 scam-linked accounts and pages, 33,600 e-commerce fraud entities, and the 3.6 million shell pages before they could be deployed. Meta has also removed 65 million scam ads on the platforms so far in 2026, detecting 94% of them before users reported them.
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