About Executive summary Managing risks Issues Stakeholders Transparency and remedy Annex Fraud and scams Fraud and scam networks have grown considerably in the last decade and have had a negative impact on people's human rights. Many scam centers rely on human trafficking and forced labor to carry out their work, and scam victims can experience considerable financial loss and other harms. In 2025, we removed over 159 million scam ads for violating our policies, and we also took down 10.9 million accounts on Facebook and Instagram associated with criminal scam centers. We prioritized safety through platform defenses such as facial recognition to combat impersonation, scam detection warnings on Messenger and screenshare warnings on WhatsApp. Our work disrupting scammers also involved litigation and supporting law enforcement to hold them accountable. Balancing the safety and well-being of our communities with proportionate, rights-respecting mitigations can be challenging. We took these actions with privacy in mind and in line with international human rights standards, including the Global Network Initiative Principles. Fraud and scams are global challenges. Signal sharing, collaboration across defender communities and a whole-of-society approach are necessary for effective work. Throughout 2025, Meta engaged with signal sharing partnerships such as the Global Signal Exchange, Global Anti-Scam Alliance and Fraud Intelligence Reciprocal Exchange. We also advocated for publishing lists of countries that fail to take adequate action and prompting international penalties, while being mindful of human rights and unintended consequences for vulnerable populations, including trafficked individuals forced into scam operations. Disrupting criminal scam syndicates in Southeast Asia Industrial-scale, sophisticated scam networks and compounds have emerged over the past decade. Across the Asia Pacific region, these compounds employ hundreds of thousands of people and operate with near impunity. Criminal scam hubs lure job seekers with deceptive job postings and force them to work as online scammers, often under the threat of physical abuse — implicating the prohibition on slavery, servitude and forced labor under international human rights standards. 2025 Meta Human Rights Report 22