Meta leads largest-ever anti-scam operation with FBI and DOJ, resulting in 63 arrests

A sweeping anti-scam operation led by Meta and backed by the FBI, Department of Justice, Microsoft, Coinbase and Starlink resulted in 63 arrests, millions of dollars in frozen cryptocurrency and the removal of more than a million scam-related online accounts, officials announced Tuesday.

Meta said the operation was the company’s largest anti-scam operation to date and described it as the first coordinated anti-scam effort of its kind for the company to bring together major technology companies, financial platforms and law enforcement agencies to target the broader fraud ecosystem.

The two-week operation began May 18 and brought together the DOJ’s Scam Center Strike Force — led by U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Ferris Pirro — along with the FBI, the Royal Thai Police, Microsoft, Coinbase, Starlink and other international law enforcement partners.

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