Meta took action against more than 3.7 million scam-linked accounts, pages, and posts on Facebook and Instagram in 2026, using information from the Singapore Police Force (SPF).

In a statement on Wednesday, Meta said the total came from three enforcement waves. From January to June, Meta removed or restricted more than 113,000 fraud- and scam-linked pages and entities, over five times the number flagged by the police.

In June, ahead of the school holidays, it acted against more than 33,600 more.

In July, it removed more than 3.64 million shell pages, mostly empty or harmless-looking pages built as ready-to-use scam infrastructure, before they could be activated.

The police referred more than 20,000 accounts, pages, and pieces of content to Meta between January and June after detecting scam signals, Meta said. Those included impersonation scams using social-media influencers’ identities to push fake investment schemes, and fraudulent ads for concert tickets, food and other goods at very low prices.

The partnership utilized police tips to trace and dismantle connected scam networks. Meta added that scammers are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to mass-produce fake profiles, images, and malicious code.

Daryl Poon, Meta’s director of law-enforcement outreach for the Asia-Pacific, said combining police information with the platform’s scale let it break up networks before they reached more people.

Senior Assistant Commissioner Justin Wong, commander of the SPF’s Cyber Command, said the operation cut off scammers’ ability to defraud people in Singapore, and that the force would expand data-sharing with Meta and other online providers.

Meta also said the collaboration, in place for about two years, had helped the police in return.

Singapore’s scam and cybercrime cases down 17.9 percent to 18,391 cases in first half