Meta removed more than 3.64 million Facebook and Instagram shell pages in July after information from Singapore police helped uncover infrastructure prepared for scam campaigns.
The Straits Times reported on the enforcement following a Meta briefing on 22 September about its wider anti-scam work with the Singapore Police Force.
Between January and June, information shared by the police led Meta to take action against more than 113,000 entities and pages linked to fraud and scams. Most of the related content involved investment scams.
Meta said its investigations ultimately identified more than five times the number of assets initially flagged by police.
The shell pages were uncovered in a separate July operation.
Although they had yet to display scam advertisements or other violating content, Meta said they had been set up in advance for later use in scam campaigns.
Another joint operation in June targeted more than 33,600 entities linked to e-commerce scams ahead of Singapore’s school holidays.
Meta has also removed 65 million scam advertisements from Facebook and Instagram so far in 2026, with 94% detected before users reported them.
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