LinkedIn joins Industry Accord Against Online Scams and Fraud Published on Mar 17, 2026 Categories: Company News LinkedIn Corporate Communications
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"This Accord affirms the commitments made by LinkedIn and other industry partners to ensure a safer digital environment. Were proud to be a signatory as we continue to help connect real people to real opportunities." Blake Lawit, Chief Global Affairs & Legal Officer, LinkedIn.
Industry Accord Against Online Scams & Fraud 2026
This Accord addresses the growing problem of online scams and fraud, specifically deceptive schemes targeting individuals or organizations with the intent of taking money and/or personal information, which impacts billions of users across the globe.
As technology becomes increasingly integrated into everyday life, it has become a primary target for scammers seeking to exploit legitimate service providers to steal consumers' personal information and money. The most damaging of these actors, often operating on behalf of or as part of transnational criminal syndicates, leverage sophisticated techniques to defraud individuals and organizations. In the past year, consumers lost an estimated $442 billion to scammers, underscoring the devastating financial and societal impact of these crimes.
While the signatories commit to implementing robust measures to protect consumers and combat scams, this Accord recognizes that a safer online consumer experience is a shared responsibility requiring a collective response across the entire ecosystem, including key private sector institutions targeted by scammers and the public sector. Each sector has a role in this collective response, and we call on other industries to adopt similar commitments to protect consumers from scams and fraud.
This Accord seeks to set expectations for how signatories will work across online services to counter scammers, in line with their own policies and practices as relevant to the commitments in the Accord.
It also seeks to drive a united industry response alongside governments, law enforcement, NGOs, and others working to combat fraud and scams. The Accord recognizes that in order to deal with this political, societal, and safety issue that is largely driven by transnational organized crime, there is an important role for public authorities to play, alongside the efforts of the private sector. We, the signatories, will work with governments to support implementation of all applicable laws and to build law enforcement capacity and resources to pursue criminal organizations.
We sign this Accord as a voluntary set of principles and actions to advance four goals:
Prevention: Developing and implementing proactive actions to prevent scams, including robust security features, AI-powered detection systems, and clear usage policies.
Cooperation and Collective Learning: Increasing cooperation and lawful information sharing among industry and with law enforcement agencies to further (i) identify financial fraud, particularly when committed by transnational criminal organizations; (ii) protect consumers; and (iii) improve our joint understanding of scams, countermeasures, and evolving threats.
Resilience: Supporting secure digital transformation and the deployment of defensive tools, such as AI-based and other enhanced technology solutions, and enabling swift and proportionate responses to adversarial shifts and scam incidents.
Public Awareness: Engaging in shared efforts to educate the public about scams and digital literacy, and ways citizens can protect themselves from being manipulated or deceived by scammers. By working together, signatories of this Accord commit to leveraging their expertise, skills, resources, and influence to combat online scams and protect consumers worldwide.
Commitments The signatories commit to the following voluntary principles and actions:
Prevention
Deploying Technical and In-Product Solutions: Design and/or deploy processes and mechanisms to identify and address scam and fraud attempts, in line with companies' unique product and service policies and where actionable signals are present. Implement product features to enhance user security.
Implement and Enforce Anti-Scam Usage Policies: Design and enforce in a timely manner acceptable use policies and terms of use that prohibit scams and fraud across participating companies' platforms, products, and services.
Verification: Service providers should promote risk-based, proportionate verification mechanisms that are designed to reduce scams and negative impacts to legitimate users.
Authorization and Authentication: Financial payment services that initiate and execute financial transactions (such as wire transfers, instant payments, or financial asset purchases) should be subject to higher-friction authorization and authentication requirements than surfaces that facilitate communication or social interaction.
Cooperation and Collective Learning
Undertake collective efforts to share best practices and other information, as permitted by applicable law related to scam trends, detection, and prevention through international forums like the Global Anti-Scam Alliance, the Tech Against Scams Coalition, and platforms like the Global Signal Exchange.
Explore pathways to share best-in-class mechanisms and processes for detecting, preventing, and responding to scams.
Provide, or adopt, process for law enforcement and trusted government partners to report suspected scam activity occurring on the companies' services.
Resilience
Secure Digital Transformation by developing and/or deploying secure technology across all sectors and adopting cybersecurity best practices such as modern and regularly-updated operating systems and hardware.
Provide swift responses to adversarial shifts and incidents of scams and fraud. The
