Meta said a coordinated “Joint Disruption Week” with the Royal Thai Police, FBI and the DOJ Scam Center Strike Force resulted in 21 arrests and the takedown of more than 150,000 Facebook and Instagram accounts tied to organised scam‑centre networks. Meta also announced new anti‑scam tools across WhatsApp, Messenger and Facebook to detect account‑linking attacks, suspicious friend requests and fraudulent job offers.

Meta reported a cross‑border enforcement operation conducted with the Royal Thai Police, the U.S. FBI and the Department of Justice’s Scam Center Strike Force and additional law‑enforcement partners that disabled over 150,000 Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to organised scam centres operating out of Southeast Asia. The company said the enforcement phase, labelled a “Joint Disruption Week,” produced 21 arrests and disrupted networks that targeted victims globally with romance, investment and impersonation schemes. In parallel, Meta introduced new platform protections to detect account‑linking attacks, flag suspicious friend requests and identify scammy job postings, and said the measures would be rolled out across WhatsApp, Messenger and Facebook. Meta framed the action as part of an ongoing combined private‑public approach that pairs platform takedowns and technical detection with traditional policing and international cooperation to dismantle industrialised scam operations and recover stolen funds where possible.