Meta, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and others join a law-enforcement crackdown on West African scam networks

Meta said on 13 October 2026 that it, Coinbase, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Starlink, Adobe and other tech companies took part in a joint operation with law enforcement to disrupt criminal scam networks based in West African nations including Nigeria and Ghana. The operation was hosted by the UK's National Crime Agency in London in partnership with the US Department of Justice, the FBI and several US federal agencies. Meta describes it as the first joint disruption to broadly target criminal scam networks in the region.

What it means AI and platform companies working with police across borders sets a template for how scams carried on their services get tackled.