Big Tech firms including Google, Meta, and Microsoft sign anti-scam pact

Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI have signed a new anti-scam pact, joining Adobe, LinkedIn, Match Group, Pinterest, Target, and Levi Strauss at the UN Global Fraud Summit in Vienna. The agreement is called the Industry Accord Against Online Scams & Fraud, and the first thing worth knowing is that it is voluntary.

It tells you how these companies now see the problem. The document says signatories will share threat intelligence, coordinate defenses, tighten verification, improve reporting systems, and work more closely with law enforcement. It is a recognition that online scams do not stay on one service for long.

The sharpest detail in the document is a simple one. Services that actually move money should use stronger authorization and authentication checks than products built mainly for communication or social interaction.

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The accord is also a quiet policy question. Alongside product and safety changes, the signatories want governments to treat scam prevention as a national priority, spend more on law-enforcement tools and training, modernize fraud databases, improve lawful cross-border data sharing, and give companies protections when they act in good faith against scams.

The backdrop helps explain the timing. UNODC is treating fraud as a growing business for organized criminal groups, not just another trust-and-safety headache. Google said it plans to expand information sharing through the Global Signal Exchange. 

Meta, in its own announcement around the summit, said it removed more than 159 million scam ads in 2025 and took down 10.9 million Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to criminal scam centers.

Google said it plans to expand information sharing through the Global Signal Exchange in 2026, as the companies begin putting the accord’s verification, reporting, and law-enforcement cooperation plans into effect.