"Meta disabled more than 150,000 accounts and Thai police arrested 21 people in a sweeping international crackdown on south-east Asian criminal scam centers that targeted people around the world. The operation was led by Thailand's Royal Thai police anti-cyber scam center, alongside the FBI and the US justice department's scam center strike force, with Meta investigators acting on intelligence shared in real time by law enforcement."
"One of Meta's tools aims to detect when a potential Facebook friend shows signs of falsifying details about their profile like, for example, an account operating out of a different country than the one stated in the profile. The tool provides users details on the account, highlighting potential issues, such as a lack of mutual friends or that the account was recently created, and gives options to either block or report it for inauthentic activity."
"Meta's WhatsApp warning system intends to detect scammers trying to get users to connect their WhatsApp numbers to a device that is not their own, thereby gaining access to their accounts. A pop-up will appear warning about linking the device and suggesting the activity might be a scam."
Meta, Thailand's Royal Thai police, the FBI, and the US Justice Department's scam center strike force conducted a coordinated international operation against southeast Asian criminal scam networks. The operation resulted in the disabling of over 150,000 accounts and 21 arrests. Meta introduced new protective tools including alerts for suspicious Facebook friend requests, WhatsApp warnings for fraudulent device-linking attempts, and expanded scam detection for Facebook Messenger. These tools identify profile inconsistencies, detect account inauthenticity, and flag potentially fraudulent communications. Criminal scam networks operating from compounds in Cambodia, Myanmar, and Laos have become increasingly sophisticated, running full-scale criminal operations designed to evade detection.
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