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.
Meta did not provide comparative figures. As scammers operate across different platforms and in varying countries, Meta alone does not have a full view of the problem. “Scammers count on the fact that no single organisation sees the full picture.
In June, Meta said it disrupted more than 33,600 entities and pages linked to scammers who were trying to take advantage of the upcoming school holidays when families are rushing to look at travel websites for good deals.
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 over the past two years. And in July, Meta took action against more than 3.6 million entities and pages, the big majority of which were “shell pages”, or those that have no content and are not in active use, but could still be acquired by scammers for their future activities. What we have built with the Singapore Police Force changes that,” said Daryl Poon, director of law enforcement outreach for the Asia Pacific at Meta. Clara Koh, director of public policy for Southeast Asia, said scammers are now operating at an industrial scale and are using artificial intelligence “to mass produce fake profiles”, fabricate imagery and generate offensive malicious code.
