By Thai Newsroom Reporters
A DAUGHTER OF DEMOCRAT MP Chaichana Dejdecho has been defrauded by a call scam into giving away cash or otherwise seeing his reputation damaged online.
The Democrat lawmaker, concurrently performing as chair of the House Committee on Police Affairs, told reporters today (Oct. 30) his unnamed student daughter had been conned into making four bank transfers online totaling 650,000 baht to “horse accounts” at the orders of the Line call racket in exchange for personal reputations of her family and herself being kept from going viral.
Chaichana said his daughter had chatted via Line app with a suspected fraudster who had falsely claimed to be a police officer, namely Pol. Capt. Adisak Sornbua, and be attached to the Department of Special Investigation, with threats to expose her personal secrets online unless the money had been transferred as demanded.
Some of the transferred cash had come from the victim’s father and others from her grandparents in Nakhon Sri Thammarat which is the Democrat MP’s southern constituency.
He called on police chief Pol. Gen. Kitrat Panpet to promptly launch a complete crackdown on all call scams preying on unsuspecting victims throughout the country.
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Democrat MP Chaichana Dejdecho telling the press about his daughter being scammed. Photos: Thai Rath
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