The GASA Mexico Annual Forum 2026, co-organised with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) and the Financial Intelligence Unit of the Ministry of Finance (SHCP–UIF), will bring together approximately 150 senior officials, industry leaders and cross-sector stakeholders to translate a year of assessment and dialogue into concrete, actionable commitments.
The programme begins by examining the scale and evolving dynamics of fraud, before moving into its operational mechanisms and the conditions needed for a coordinated response. The first block defines the scale of the problem and explains why no single institution can address it alone. The second block explores how the fraud supply chain operates, which signals are useful, and how information can be shared across sectors. The third block focuses on institutional, legal and political barriers, and on connecting the national response with international cooperation.
Each block will conclude with a discussion focused on agreements, responsibilities and next steps, complemented by simultaneous sessions in two breakout rooms. The objective is to turn a shared understanding of the problem into a concrete agenda for action to reduce the impact of scams in Mexico.
The report delivers the first comprehensive, coalition-backed diagnosis of scam trends, scale and impact in the country: how deception operates, who it reaches, what losses it leaves behind, and what happens after a person is defrauded.
Its findings open the day's discussion on the true scale of the threat and the coordinated action Mexico needs.
A Forum for Mexico's anti-scam ecosystem
The Forum brings into one room the institutions that hold each link of the chain: banking and payment networks, telecommunications, digital platforms, anti-fraud technology providers, the Federal Government, the Senate of the Republic, UNODC, academia and the media.
A network can only be met with a network. A year of work by the Mexico Chapter proved that a shared diagnosis is possible; this day turns it into commitments with named owners and timelines.
Event focus
A single day designed to close the year with operational agreements at national scale
The scam landscape in Mexico
The findings of the State of Scams in Mexico 2026 Report open the conversation on the scale of fraud, the tactics driving its growth, and the role of artificial intelligence in its industrialisation.
Cybersecurity and anti-fraud as one agenda
The convergence agreed in 2026 between the cybersecurity and anti-fraud agendas moves into implementation: what gets shared, among whom, and under what framework.
Money Laundering and Financial Intelligence
Following the money trail is a key part of dismantling the networks behind scams. Information sharing and coordination between authorities and the private sector can help identify illicit flows, detect patterns, and strengthen the response to the structures that monetise scams.
The road here
The Forum agenda builds directly on the outcomes of the two Mexico Chapter roundtables held in 2026.
Milestone 1 — January 2026 Hosted by Scotiabank
The first roundtable established a shared diagnosis of the scam landscape in Mexico and laid the foundations of the multisector coalition, formalised through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Cybersecurity Division of the Digital Transformation Agency (ATDT).
The second roundtable advanced the relevance and urgency of bringing the cybersecurity and anti-fraud agendas together, and defined a concrete action plan on communication, awareness and public education campaigns.
Milestone 3 — October 2026 Hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Annual Forum translates into concrete national action the commitments made at the UNODC Global Fraud Summit in Vienna, positioning the Mexico Chapter as a reference point for multisector governance in cybersecurity and anti-fraud across Latin America.
The Forum closes the Mexico Chapter’s first year with a program that moves from understanding the problem to creating the conditions needed to address it.
The first block establishes the scale of the challenge: how much Mexico loses to scams, how deception operates today, and why no single institution can address the problem alone. This is the rationale for bringing government, financial institutions, telecommunications companies, digital platforms and international organizations to the same table.
The second block brings together those working on the front lines of prevention and response for a technical discussion: how the fraud supply chain is structured, which signals are useful at each stage, and under what interoperability and compliance conditions information can be shared across sectors.
The third block takes the conversation into the public and institutional arena: the operational, political and legal barriers to institutional coordination and how Mexico’s national response connects with international cooperation—from the commitments made at the UNODC Global Fraud Summit in Vienna to the mechanisms needed to act against a crime that, in many cases, originates outside the country.
Each block concludes with a panel discussion and is complemented by simultaneous sessions in the two breakout rooms.
09:30 – 10:00 GIVING A VOICE TO FRAUD, GIVING A VOICE TO VICTIMS Testimony: a fraud case, told in the first person. GASA: What we did this year and what we will do together, as a NETWORK, to better protect victims.
Sissi de la Peña GASA Mexico
10:00 – 10:10 OFFICIAL OPENING Secretariat of Foreign Affairs
10:10 – 11:00
PANEL 1A: THE CYBERSECURITY AND FRAUD AGENDA: CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATION This panel addresses the convergence of two agendas: cybersecurity and fraud prevention. Participants include Mastercard, from the payments network perspective; Scotiabank, from fraud management in banking; the Agency for Digital Transformation and Telecommunications, from national cybersecurity policy; and the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs, from international cooperation on emerging technologies. The conversation will explore why this problem is solved through collaboration, how cybersecurity and fraud prevention come together in practice, and what information needs to flow between sectors to act in time.
SPEAKERS
Alejandra Lara Mastercard
Fabián Goncalves Ambielle Scotiabank
Heidy Rocha ATDT
Ambassador Ulises Canchola SRE
MODERATOR
Sissi de la Peña GASA Mexico
11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 12:30
KEYNOTE Scotiabank will share an incident-management view of the fraud supply chain and set the context for the panel discussion.
Rosa Cabrera Scotiabank
PANEL 2A: THE FRAUD SUPPLY CHAIN This panel reconstructs a scam from start to finish as a supply chain: identity theft, initial contact, the use of telecommunications and digital platforms, and the movement of funds through fictitious accounts or virtual assets.
It opens with the incident-management perspective from banking and brings together views from bank fraud prevention, telecommunications, anti-fraud technology, consumer protection and financial intelligence to examine how this chain relies on legitimate services, what signals each link leaves behind, what becomes visible when they are read together, and how the anti-scam agenda integrates with anti-money laundering efforts.
SPEAKERS
Antonio Díaz ATT
Erika Mata Sánchez Bancoppel
Idris Rodríguez Zapata PROFECO
Tania Vázquez Nasdaq Verafin
Ministry of Finance Financial Intelligence Unit
MODERATOR
Víctor Merchand UNODC
12:30–13:25
KEYNOTE
Claudia Nuñez Sañudo Asociación Fintech
PANEL 2B: CROSS-SECTOR INFORMATION SHARING Each sector sees a different facet of the fraud landscape: telecommunications companies detect anomalies in communications, platforms detect suspicious behavior, and financial institutions identify unusual transactions.
The challenge is to connect these signals in time to act before fraud is committed. This roundtable examines what information can be shared in real time and under what technical, legal and operational protocols.
SPEAKERS
Alejandro Segura Banco Azteca
Armida Sánchez Arellano Microsoft
Josué Martínez BioCatch
Mary Pily Loo National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV)
Tania Villa Telecommunications Regulatory Commission
MODERATOR
Ernesto Ibarra Mexico Cybersecurity Alliance
13:30–13:55 PRESENTATION OF FINDINGS: "2026 STATE OF SCAMS REPORT"
Sissi de la Peña GASA Mexico
14:00 – 15:00 LUNCH
15:00–15:55
KEYNOTE
David Herrerías Mexican Banking Association
PANEL 3A: INSTITUTIONAL COORDINATION: OPERATIONAL, POLICY AND LEGAL BARRIERS Responsibility for fraud is fragmented across security, justice, consumer protection, regulatory and financial intelligence authorities, which makes it harder to guide victims, follow up on complaints, link related cases and investigate the networks behind them.
This roundtable examines what kind of governance and leadership Mexico needs to coordinate these institutions, define clear responsibilities and develop a national anti-fraud strategy.
SPEAKERS
David Herrerías Mexican Banking Association
Óscar Lazcano Voisek
TBD Banamex
Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) Cyber Police
MODERATOR
Hugo Werner Cleafy
16:00–16:55
KEYNOTE
TBD
PANEL 3B: THE INTERNATIONAL AGENDA Fraud networks operate beyond national borders, use infrastructure across different jurisdictions, and move funds through global financial systems and digital assets.
Building on the agreements reached at the UN forum held in Vienna, this roundtable will discuss how to strengthen cooperation among authorities, companies and international organizations to share information, investigate networks, trace funds and coordinate cross-border action.
PANELISTS
UNODC Mexico
PNUD Mexico
MODERATOR TBD
17:00 – 17:15 CLOSING AND CONCLUSIONS A synthesis of the day's main takeaways, challenges and collaboration opportunities.
Event Details
DATE Wednesday, 14 October 2026
TIME 9:30 AM – 5:15 PM (registration from 9:00 AM)
LOCATION Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) Av. Juárez 20, Centro, Mexico City
FORMAT In-person · Main plenary and two parallel working sessions · Approximately 150 participants
LANGUAGE The event will be conducted in Spanish
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