India, May 7 -- Social media giant Meta said it blocked access to thousands of Facebook pages and accounts that scammed Indian users in March.

In total, Meta removed more than 23,000 Facebook pages and accounts that indulged in scam activities in both India and Brazil. "In March, we removed multiple clusters of scam activity totalling over 23,000 Facebook Pages and accounts that primarily targeted people in Brazil and India," said Meta in a blog post.

The social media juggernaut said that the "scam" Facebook accounts used deepfakes and other techniques to "falsely depict" popular personal finance content creators, cricket players and business figures endorsing scam investment apps and gambling websites.

The company said that these scam...