Meta acts against 3.7 mil. scammers' accounts with Singapore police help
SINGAPORE — Meta has disrupted more than 3.7 million scam-linked accounts, pages and other content this year based on information provided by the Singapore police, the company said Wednesday. The social media giant said the Singapore Police Force (SPF) has been helping Meta's investigators "identify and dismantle entire ecosystems of scammers" through an information-sharing collaboration in place…
Meta has taken action against over 3.7 million scam-related accounts, pages, and content this year, according to the company. The social media giant has been collaborating with Singapore's police force to identify and dismantle vast networks of scammers. In the first half of this year alone, Meta removed more than 113,000 fraud-related entities and pages from Facebook and Instagram.
The company's efforts intensified in June, as it took down more than 33,600 entities and pages tied to scammers attempting to exploit the school holiday period when families are searching for travel deals. In July, Meta's actions focused on the most significant number of cases, with over 3.6 million entities and pages identified and removed.
Most of these were "shell pages" – inactive profiles that could still be used by scammers in the future.
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