Innovation from the East: Internet Powerhouses, Governments, Finance Sector and others meet at 'Scam Ready ASEAN'

This week, GSE Founder and CTO Lucien Taylor and CEO Emily Taylor are attending Google’s Third APAC Fraud and Scams Summit, “2026 Online Safety Dialogue: Solutions to Address Online Fraud and Scams in APAC Together”.

Emily Taylor will be giving a fireside talk, “The Human Engine of the Scam Machine: A Cycle of Forced Criminality”. This session with Dr Rebecca Miller (UNODC), moderated by Jean-Jacques Sahel (Google), will explore the multi-layered systems of exploitation, as well as the human rights abuses and coerced labour involved in scam and fraud compounds.

In an adjacent event led by the ASEAN Foundation on the following days, Lucien Taylor will be leading a session providing an overview of the Global Signal Exchange.

Emily will speak on the panel ‘Scam Trends, Tactics and Regional Impact’, where she will present findings from a recent research project undertaken by Oxford Information Labs Research, supported by Google.Org. She will also cover insights on the ASEAN region obtained from the GSE’s new Large Language Model, GSE Compass. Data from the GSE indicates that the volume of scam and fraud threat signals across the region is comparatively low, and that there is a contrast in the digital and physical footprint. While criminals may be physically located in one state, they are digitally based in another. Just as the physical location of scam compounds in the ASEAN region — often in remote regions or special economic zones — is chosen to evade detection and disruption, the choice of digital infrastructure — out of region, exploiting high performance international providers— is rational, chosen for high performance and cross-border complexity.

The insights obtained from GSE data will be used to drive key dialogue on the ASEAN region at the event.