Fraud doesn’t happen in silos. Fighting it doesn’t either.
Forum to Finish Fraud is bringing together experts, regulators and organisations across the digital ecosystem from Mexico to Argentina to share knowledge, challenge conventional thinking and explore more coordinated ways to protect users from fraud.
A single act of digital fraud can cross multiple systems, platforms and industries before it reaches its victim. The chain behind it can stretch across social media, telecommunications networks, digital identity, payments infrastructure and the services people use every day.
Because fraud crosses organisational and industry boundaries, it becomes a shared problem – one that cannot be tackled effectively in isolation.
It was this thinking that led to the creation of Forum to Finish Fraud – FFF (Foro Fin al Fraude in Spanish), a community initiative bringing together experts, authorities, regulators and public and private organisations to discuss the changing nature of digital fraud and the strategies needed to address it.
Creating space for shared learning
Forum to Finish Fraud took shape in early 2025 to create an open environment for discussion, debate and shared learning.
Its community broadly spans three groups: organisations whose customers are directly exposed to fraud, including financial institutions, retailers and telecommunications companies; specialists and institutions that contribute expertise, including regulators and legal professionals; and technology organisations working in fraud prevention and security.
Verisec is one of those participants and has played a driving role in developing the initiative through its LATAM team, alongside other organisations and experts.
As Carlos Flores, 10XTrust Chief Product Officer at Verisec and Curator of Forum to Finish Fraud, explains:
“The forum is a non-profit community initiative dedicated to sharing strategies and tactics that can help prevent digital fraud, always putting the protection of users and their financial assets at the centre.”
Carlos Flores • Chief Product Officer at Verisec and Director of Forum to Finish Fraud
Expanding the community
Since being formalised, Forum to Finish Fraud has held eight events across in-person, online and hybrid formats, with more than 30 expert speakers contributing to its discussions.
Topics have ranged from the wider fraud landscape in Mexico and Latin America to the role of fintech, telecommunications and social platforms in prevention.
The sessions reflect the forum’s broader purpose: moving beyond describing the fraud problem to examining where intervention is possible and responsibility for prevention can be shared.
Preventing fraud before the transaction
In the most recent hybrid event, held on 4 June 2026, the forum explored where fraud originates and how different industries can intervene earlier in the chain.
The event had the theme “Preventing fraud from its start: the role of telcos and social networks in solving the fraud epidemic,” and some of the main speakers were Tania Villa, Commissioner of Mexico’s telecommunications regulator; Natalia Guerra, Director of Public Affairs and Regulatory Affairs at Telefónica México; among others. In a previous event last year (2025), Toby Evans, Head of Economic Crime at Australian Payments Network, spoke about the success that Australia has had substantially mitigating fraud losses in the last couple of years and the strategies they have implemented there to achieve this.
These are only a couple of examples of the types of subjects that are regularly covered in the FFF’s events.
What comes next
Plans for the second half of 2026 include welcoming additional members and exploring the concept of the “Fraud Kill Chain” by examining the stages through which common fraud scenarios develop – and identifying the points at which intervention may be most effective.
The forum is also considering research into whether fear of fraud itself is changing the way people use digital services in Mexico & LATAM. When people lose confidence in digital services, the consequences extend across the wider digital economy.
Which brings the forum back to where it started: protecting the user.
Fraud moves across an increasingly complex digital ecosystem.
Preventing it will require that ecosystem to work together.
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