Meta Bans Nearly 7 Million WhatsApp Accounts

Meta has identified and banned more than 6.8 million WhatsApp accounts linked to scam operations during the first half of 2025, the tech giant said in an Aug. 5 statement.

“Some of the most prolific sources of scams are criminal scam centers, often fueled by forced labor and operated by organized crime primarily in Southeast Asia,” Meta stated. “We proactively detected and took down accounts before scam centers were able to operationalize them.”