[Stanley]

Meta Disables 150K Accounts Linked to Southeast Asia Scam Centers in Global Crackdown

Meta on Wednesday said it disabled over 150,000 accounts associated with scam centers in Southeast Asia as part of a coordinated effort in partnership with authorities from Thailand, the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Korea, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia.
The effort also led to 21 arrests made by the Royal Thai Police, the company said. The action builds upon

https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/meta-d...ed-to.html

[Charlie Sheen]

It's wild how often I'll go to an elderly family members profile and see these scammers commenting on their page pretending to be military generals and trying to get money out of them. It's about time meta did something.

[Aeowulf]

Good. A lot of these are obvious, and Meta has refused to do anything about them (I've reported plenty). They need to keepdoing it.

[shakur123]

Another reminder that platforms are still failing to stop scams at scale, despite all the warnings and tech—global crackdowns feel reactive, not preventive.

[Null State]

The sheer amount of bot accounts on Instagram and Facebook as well as Threads is really ridiculous. My entire Threads feed is constantly filled with the shit. For as much info as Instagram and Facebook collect, you would think they would be more on top of the amount of bots that are there, but I digress.

[KtDan]

Dead internet theory