Scam protection center

Stay safe online from fraud and scams

At Meta, we work to help protect your safety and security. Scams affect people across platforms and industries, and we take a comprehensive approach to making our technologies a safer place. Learn how we’re working to help keep you safer on our technologies.

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We take a holistic approach to addressing scams on our technologies

Protecting our platforms

Meta proactively uses detection technology and products to combat scams and protect people on our platforms.

Empowering users

We provide a range of tools, controls and educational resources to stay in control of your account. There are resources to help you stay safe on and off our platforms.

Disrupting scammers

We have trained investigators focused on disrupting scam networks and making our systems more resilient to them in the future.

Driving change through partnerships

Scams are a society-wide challenge and we partner with industry, law enforcement, NGOs and others to tackle scams.

Policy enforcement

We use artificial intelligence and review teams to detect, review, and take action on millions of pieces of content every day on Facebook and Instagram. WhatsApp uses a combination of techniques to enforce its policies and prevent abuse, including giving people the ability to block and report spam and scams. In addition, WhatsApp uses machine learning to tackle fake accounts, fraudulent activity and bulk messaging.

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3.4B fake accounts removed

from Facebook in 2025.

99% of this was proactively detected

and actioned before anyone reports them

159 million scam ads removed

from Facebook and Instagram in 2025.

92% of this was proactively detected

and actioned before anyone reports them