The Thailand Securities and Exchange Commission published first quarter 2026 statistics on investment scams, showing more than 150,000 uses of its pre-investment checking tools and 3,473 reports to the SEC Investment Scam Hotline. The figures were released alongside a warning that investment scams remained the highest-loss fraud category in Royal Thai Police data as of March 2026, with losses of about THB 602 million. Of the hotline reports, 3,149 involved advice provided to the public, around four times the level in the first quarter of 2025. The SEC also coordinated with relevant parties to block 279 scam-related channels, with social media platform providers completing all blockings within 7 minutes to 48 hours. Pre-investment checks comprised 146,149 accesses through the SEC Check First application and 7,626 through the Investor Alert section of the SEC website. Under its 3Cs framework, the SEC is continuing consultation through the hotline, expanding warning communications, upgrading the app and chatbot, and broadening scam alert cooperation to 77 partner organizations.

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