Meta announced that information sharing with the Singapore Police Force (SPF) led in 2026 to the disruption of more than 3.7 million accounts, pages, and entities linked to scams on its platforms, in an approach focused on dismantling criminal networks and infrastructure rather than merely removing content after it is reported.
Meta and the SPF have worked together for two years in a partnership to exchange signals and information that help the company’s investigators link accounts, pages, and actors within unified scam ecosystems. Information provided by Meta also helped Singaporean police arrest seven men in 2025 on suspicion of involvement in a cross-border illegal betting operation.
Three Tracks for Disrupting Scams
Between January and June 2026, Meta took action against more than 113,000 scam-linked entities and pages on Facebook and Instagram, most of them related to fake investment schemes promising high or guaranteed returns. According to the company, information shared by the SPF led to action against a number of assets more than five times the number of assets identified directly.
In June, the two parties conducted a proactive operation before the school holiday, focusing on e-commerce scams that used misleading prices, fake promotional offers for well-known brands, and exaggerated claims, in addition to pressuring victims by implying that the offer was limited or about to expire. The operation resulted in action against more than 33,600 entities.
The largest action targeted what Meta described as Shell Pages: pages that appear empty or non-violating and do not display advertisements, but are created in advance for later activation as part of scam campaigns. Based on SPF signals, Meta disabled more than 3.6 million such pages in July before they were used.
What Changes in Practice?
The figures illustrate a shift in scam prevention from handling affected accounts one by one to attempting to identify links between assets and disrupt the infrastructure on which networks depend. However, the announced results measure Meta’s internal actions and, by themselves, do not establish the scale of losses prevented or the number of victims spared from scams.
Daryl Poon, Meta’s director of law enforcement outreach in the Asia-Pacific region, said that information sharing gives the company visibility into threats it might not detect on its own, while its ability to act at scale allows it to dismantle networks before they reach more users. For his part, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police Justin Wong, head of the Singapore Police Force’s Cybercrime Command, said that the partnership aims to expand data sharing with Meta and other service providers.
The Broader Effort to Combat Scams
Meta places the operation within broader international cooperation. In May and June 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Scam Center Strike Force brought together Meta, Microsoft, Coinbase, and Starlink, along with law enforcement agencies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Thailand. According to Meta, the operation resulted in the disruption of more than one million digital assets, including 1.4 million Facebook and Instagram accounts, pages, and groups, 20,000 Microsoft accounts, and thousands of Starlink devices, in addition to the Royal Thai Police arresting 63 people.
In Singapore, Meta, the SPF, and the National Crime Prevention Council collaborated on an awareness campaign that reached 1.6 million people and encouraged the activation of two-factor authentication and passkeys on Facebook and Instagram, linked-device notifications on WhatsApp, and the use of the ScamShield service.
Meta says it has removed 65 million scam advertisements from Facebook and Instagram since the beginning of 2026, and that 94% of them were removed before users reported them. The effectiveness of this approach remains tied to the speed and accuracy of signal sharing, and the ability of platforms, government agencies, banks, and telecommunications companies to coordinate their actions across borders.