Mexico Anti-Scam Forum

From Coalition to Action

Mexico City, Mexico | 14 October 2026

Mexico closes the first full year of its GASA Chapter with a coalition in place and a shared agenda. The Mexico Anti-Scam Forum 2026 convenes senior officials, industry leaders and multisector stakeholders at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to turn a year of diagnosis and dialogue into concrete, actionable commitments. 

Co-hosted with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) and the Financial Intelligence Unit of the Ministry of Finance (SHCP–UIF), the Forum gathers approximately 150 participants across a main plenary and two parallel working sessions.

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Why attend?

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The State of Scams in Mexico 2026 

Be among the first to discover the findings of the State of Scams in Mexico 2026 Report, officially published during the Forum. 

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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

The road here

The Forum agenda builds directly on the outcomes of the two Mexico Chapter roundtables held in 2026.

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Milestone 1 — January 2026
Hosted by Scotiabank

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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).

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Milestone 2 — July 2026
Hosted by Mastercard

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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.

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Milestone 3 — October 2026
Hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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The Annual Forum translates into concrete national action the commitments made at the UNODC Global Anti-Scam Summit in Vienna, positioning the Mexico Chapter as a reference point for multisector governance in cybersecurity and anti-fraud across Latin America.

Program Structure

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.

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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.

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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.

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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 Anti-Scam 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.

Agenda

08:00 – 08:45
Registration

08:55 – 09:00
Opening Remarks

09:00 – 09:10
GASA Mexico Introduction

09:10 – 09:30
Opening Address — Minister / Undersecretary

09:30 – 10:00
Speaker: Scam Victim

10:00 – 10:30
GASA Mexico Panel — Cybersecurity and Fraud Agenda: Cross-Sector Collaboration

10:30 – 10:45
Coffee break

PLENARY — MAIN ROOM
10:50 – 11:10
Speaker: The Fraud Supply Chain 

PLENARY — MAIN ROOM
11:10 – 11:40
Panel: The Fraud Supply Chain

ROOM 1
10:50 – 11:40
Communications Roundtable — Results from the Journalists Workshop

PLENARY — MAIN ROOM
11:40 – 12:00
Speaker: Cross-Sector Information Sharing

PLENARY — MAIN ROOM
12:00 – 12:50
Panel: Cross-Sector Information Sharing

ROOM 2
11:40 – 12:50
Listening Session: Fraud Kill Chain Report Progress Roundtable

13:00 – 14:20
Lunch

PLENARY — MAIN ROOM
14:30 – 14:50
Speaker: Institutional Coordination — Operational, Political and Legal Barriers

PLENARY — MAIN ROOM
14:50 – 15:20
Panel: Institutional Coordination — Operational, Political and Legal Barriers

SALA 1
14:30 – 15:20
GASA Report Presentation — State of Scams 2026

15:30 – 15:50
Speaker: International Agenda

15:50 – 16:30
Panel: International Agenda

16:30 – 16:50
Closing Remarks

Event details

DATE
 Wednesday, 14 October 2026

TIME
 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
(registration from 8:15 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

CLOSING COCKTAIL
By invitation, at a nearby venue

Register now

Capacity is limited and registration is confirmed on a first-come basis. Complete your details and you will receive confirmation along with the final agenda and venue access details.

The event will be conducted in Spanish.

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The Mexico Chapter of the Global Anti-Scam Alliance brings together financial institutions, telecommunications companies, digital platforms, technology providers, government, international organisations and academia around a shared objective: protecting people in Mexico from scams. 

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