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Information you can trust: Mexico.

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Information you can trust: Mexico

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Most of what you need to know about local services and voting comes from official sources you can check yourself. This sheet covers simple habits for checking claims and spotting messages that only pretend to be official.

Go to the source

  • Read agendas, minutes, budgets and notices before relying on a summary.
  • Type the official web address yourself, or search the main government portal.
  • For voting, use only your official election office.

Check the claim

  • Open a new tab and look up who is behind it.
  • Find the original notice or document.
  • Check the date: is it old news shared as new?
  • If you can’t check it, don’t share it.

Spot a scam

  • Watch for urgency, threats and unexpected contact.
  • Be wary of requests for personal or bank details, or payment by gift card or cryptocurrency.
  • Don’t click links or call numbers in the message. Find the agency’s contact details yourself.

If it happens

  • Stop replying, and contact your bank if you shared bank details.
  • Report it using the official routes on the back of this sheet.

In Mexico

  • Official websites. gob.mx is the federal government’s single portal for procedures, information and citizen participation, run with all federal agencies. The tax authority (SAT), for example, says its only official sites are sat.gob.mx and gob.mx/sat.
  • Messages in the SAT’s name. The SAT says it does not send software or links by email, ask you to download files, or ask for personal information, codes or passwords. Its only phone contact number is MarcaSAT, 55 6272 2728, and it publishes a search tool for fake emails.
  • Check a number or website. The Portal de Fraudes Financieros of CONDUSEF, the financial consumer protection agency, lets you search a phone number, fake page, impersonated institution or email address, and share what happened. A formal fraud complaint goes to the Fiscalía General de la República or the Guardia Nacional.
  • Cybercrime. The Guardia Nacional’s 088 citizen line gives guidance on reporting a cybercrime, and it says reports are secure and confidential.
  • Voting information. The Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) runs federal elections and issues the voter ID card. Each state has its own local electoral institute, a separate authority, for state and municipal elections. INE’s free information line is INETEL, 800 433 2000.

Official places to check:

General information, not advice about your own situation. Checked 22 October 2026. If an official source says something different, it is right. Free to copy and adapt. moraph.org/commons/sessions/voice/information-you-can-trust Version of .

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