Overview
- Since early 2025, Meta says it has removed nearly 8 million scam-linked Facebook and Instagram accounts, taken down over 21,000 fake pages, and suspended more than 6 million WhatsApp accounts.
- The company links the most active operations to organized groups based in Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, the United Arab Emirates and the Philippines.
- Messenger is testing AI-assisted scam detection that can ask users to submit recent messages for analysis, with those messages temporarily not end-to-end encrypted during review and initial availability limited to new contacts.
- WhatsApp is adding alerts that appear when a user tries to share their screen with an unknown caller to help prevent theft of verification codes and financial data.
- Meta is expanding Security Checkup, passkeys and privacy controls, working with Graphika and the NEFCC, and highlighting common lures such as fake crypto investments, bogus customer service, debt-relief and home-remodeling schemes, and impersonated fund-recovery offers.