GSE: on our way to the Global Anti Scam Summit, Bangkok 2026
The GSE team is preparing for the Global Anti-Scam Summit Asia, which will be held in Bangkok from 10–11 November at the Pullman Bangkok King Power.
There is no single geography of a scam. The person running it, the phones and websites they rely on, and the person they target are often in different countries, sometimes on different continents. In Asia, all three can sit within the same region. That’s what we’re coming to Bangkok to talk about.
On 11 November, from 09:45–10:00, GSE is hosting a plenary session. It starts with the founders. Emily Taylor of Oxford Information Labs, Jorij Abraham of GASA and Jean-Jacques Sahel of Google will look back to Lisbon 2023, when a data-sharing discussion exposed a gap in the world’s defences against scams.
Then come the early adopters, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Google, on what has changed since. Partners from across the public and private sectors will explain why they’ve joined, from TikTok and GovTech Singapore to the ACCC, Cifas and the NCA. Craig Newmark will close. And watch out for some new partnership announcements.
Straight afterwards, from 10:00–11:00, our workshop “Scam Geographies + ASIA” follows a scam from end to end: where the victims are, where the scammers sit, and where their kit lives.
One of the speakers knows this first-hand. He was trafficked into a scam compound in Southeast Asia, a place he describes as a small town ringed by walls, barbed wire and armed guards. He’ll be joined by Meta, presenting its mapping of compounds across ASEAN, and Oxford Information Labs, on the infrastructure corridors scammers depend on. A closing panel with the NCA, ACCC, Google, TikTok, Cifas and Mastercard then asks the obvious question. So what are we going to do about it?
Join us in Bangkok or on the free livestream to hear more about the non-profit Global Signal Exchange. We’re building critical infrastructure to connect public and private sector organisations in the fight against scams and fraud.
