{"id":22287,"date":"2026-03-12T08:37:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/meta-disables-more-than-150000-accounts-in-crackdown-on-south-east-asian-scam-networks\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:37:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:37:52","slug":"meta-disables-more-than-150000-accounts-in-crackdown-on-south-east-asian-scam-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/meta-disables-more-than-150000-accounts-in-crackdown-on-south-east-asian-scam-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta disables more than 150,000 accounts in crackdown on south-east Asian scam networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company also launches tools to spot scammers as Thai police arrest 21 people<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/meta\">Meta<\/a> disabled more than 150,000 accounts and Thai police arrested 21 people in a sweeping international crackdown on south-east <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/asia\">Asian<\/a> criminal scam centers that targeted people around the world, the social media company said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/thailand\">Thailand<\/a>\u2019s Royal Thai police anti-cyber scam center, alongside the FBI and the US justice department\u2019s scam center strike force, with Meta investigators acting on intelligence shared in real time by law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/11\/meta-south-east-asia-criminal-scam-centers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/76bc79c8cbf8f6e0b40126690f8c2a3a6c3fc815\/583_0_5833_4667\/master\/5833.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9c60d3281821a90e01f4a2bdc800fc15\" title=\"Meta disables more than 150,000 accounts in crackdown on south-east Asian scam networks\" \/>Company also launches tools to spot scammers as Thai police arrest 21 people<br \/>\nMeta 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 social media company said on Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe operation was led by Thailand\u2019s Royal Thai police anti-cyber scam center, alongside the FBI and the US justice department\u2019s scam center strike force, with Meta investigators acting on intelligence shared in real time by law enforcement. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company also launches tools to spot scammers as Thai police arrest 21 people 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 social media company said on Wednesday. The operation was led by Thailand\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/meta-disables-more-than-150000-accounts-in-crackdown-on-south-east-asian-scam-networks\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta disables more than 150,000 accounts in crackdown on south-east Asian scam networks<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}