Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Others Unite Under New Anti-Scam Pact
Big Tech is closing ranks on scams. Google, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and other major platforms are backing a new cross-industry effort to make it harder for fraud networks to move across services, according to Axios.
The effort brings several of the internet’s biggest players into the same anti-scam lane, a sign that the problem has grown too broad and too interconnected for any one platform to tackle alone. The companies are aligning around a new voluntary accord built to strengthen that response.
Eleven names, one fraud front
Joining the initial group are LinkedIn, Adobe, Pinterest, Levi Strauss, Target, and Match Group, the parent company of Tinder and Hinge.That brings the full signatory list to eleven as the companies formally line up behind the new Online Services Accord Against Scams, unveiled ahead of the UN Global Fraud Summit in Austria.
The pact is meant to set expectations for how platforms work together against scammers and to broaden that coordination beyond the companies themselves to include governments, law enforcement, NGOs, and other anti-fraud groups.
From there, the agreement gets specific. The companies are committing to sharing threat intelligence on criminal networks, swapping best practices for spotting and stopping scams, rolling out new defensive tools, including AI systems, tightening verification of financial transactions on their platforms, and giving users clearer ways to report fraud when they encounter it.
Scams spread across the seams
Scammers do not stay neatly within one app, and that is the practical problem this pact aims to address.
Amazon described the threat as inherently cross-platform, with the same operation often stretching across multiple profiles and services, from social media messages to matches made on dating apps. That helps explain why the companies are turning a practice they had already used in smaller bursts into something more formal.
Meta told Axios that companies had previously exchanged details during one-off investigations, while the new accord creates an ongoing channel to share information beyond individual cases, including which defenses are working and how scam tactics are changing.
Microsoft, for its part, said the arrangement should speed communication between partners and improve efforts to disrupt scam infrastructure and the actors behind it.
Google made the broader point most directly, arguing that no single company can solve this on its own. The larger aim is to make the response more collective, more coordinated, and better matched to a scam economy that already moves fluidly across the internet.
No real penalties
Scams are becoming more coordinated across platforms and tougher to stop; that’s why some of the internet’s biggest companies are now moving in tandem. But even with that show of unity, the accord remains voluntary and carries no penalties for companies that fail to follow through.
That leaves the next phase in focus. The real test will be whether the pact leads to visible product changes, faster cross-platform coordination, and more consistent disruption of scam networks.
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