With organized, industrial-scale scamming causing a multibillion-dollar crisis around the world, Meta announced new account protections on Wednesday aimed at flagging potentially suspicious activity to users as early in a scam interaction as possible. The company also shared details about a recent Thai law enforcement collaboration that resulted in 21 arrests and Meta disabling over 150,000 user accounts associated with Southeast Asian scam compounds.
The disruptive action—a joint effort of the Royal Thai Police, the FBI, the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency, the Australian Federal Police, and other law enforcement agencies—focused on alleged scammers targeting victims in numerous countries, including the US and UK as well
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