A RAID on two luxury pool villas in Pattaya led to the arrest of 13 Chinese and Korean suspects on charges of running a call centre operation scamming people by selling fake products and package tours, TV Channel 7 said this evening (Dec. 13). Pol. Maj. Gen. Thawatchai Jindakhonsong, commander of Chonburi provincial police,
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39 foreigners flee Myanmar scam centre: Thai police
By AFP and published by CNA THIRTY-NINE foreigners have fled an online scam centre in Myanmar across the border to Thailand, where officials are working to identify potential trafficking victims, police told AFP on Monday (Nov. 25). Scam compounds have mushroomed in Myanmar’s borderlands and are staffed by foreigners who are often trafficked and
Read moreTwo Swedish men wanted on fraud charges arrested in Pattaya
TWO SWEDISH men wanted in their home country for allegedly running a call centre gang that scammed over 50 million baht were arrested in Pattaya for overstaying, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (Oct. 29). Upon being tipped off that Swedish men who allegedly ran a call centre gang were hiding in Bang Lamung district
Read moreScam alert: Don’t answer calls with three prefixes
POLICE warned the public to not answer calls with three prefixes, that is +697 +698 and +66, as they are definitely from scammers and dangerous, Sanook.com said today (Sept. 2), The Thai police and related agencies have strictly suppressed and cut off communication channels of call centre gangs and now they can no longer
Read moreSouth Korean call centre gang nabbed at luxury condo
EIGHT members of a South Korean call centre gang who were scamming victims from a luxury condo in Ekamai Soi 3 were rounded up in a raid mounted by Immigration Police today (Aug. 22). Under the direction of Immigration Bureau chief Pol. Lt. Gen. Ittipol Itthisarnronnachai a police team raided this luxury condo on
Read moreRetired worker commits suicide after being cheated by call centre scammers
A RETIRED state-owned electricity company employee hanged himself in his house after being swindled by call centre scammers who claimed to be running a garment business and offered handsome return on investment, Amarin TV said this morning (Aug.11). Policemen from Chanthaburi city station found the body of Mr. Prichakorn (surname withheld), who just turned
Read moreThai PM looks to meet with Khmer PM for anti-scammers talks
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER SRETTHA Thavisin is looking forward to an official visit to Phnom Penh to meet with his Cambodian counterpart Hun Manet in pursuit of ways and means to join hands and crack down on transnational call-centre rackets allegedly based in Cambodia. The Thai prime minister has posted on his
Read moreSri Lanka embassy asks for help in freeing over 40 scam centre victims
SRI LANKA embassy asked the Thai Foreign Ministry to help free 43 of their citizens who were tricked into working at Chinese grey capitalists’ scam centres in Myanmar’s Myawaddy township, across Moei river from Thai border town Mae Sot, where victims from 20 other countries are similarly entrapped, Naewna newspaper said today (June 24).
Read moreFormer call centre worker held for helping romance scammer
CYBER CRIME police arrested a young Thai man for opening an online account for a romance scammer to receive money from his victim while forced to work for a call centre gang in Cambodia, TV Channel 7 said today (May 15). The swindle started in September 2022 when the scammer created a fake Instagram
Read more70 million baht Bitcoin mining rig seized in Samut Sakhon raid
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A BITCOIN MINING activity was today (May 1) found illegally operating at a disguised factory in Samut Sakhon, police said. Seized in the police raid on the abandoned, unnamed ice-making factory in Tajin area of the capital district of Samut Sakhon were 690 computers and 17 mainframes allegedly used for
Read morePM takes action against call centre scammers
PRIME MINISTER Srettha Thavisin called for coordinated action against call centre gangs after admitting that he too frequently gets scam calls and messages and mostly did not respond, TV Channel 7 said today (Nov. 25). This problem requires cooperation from all parties including Finance and Digital Economy and Society ministries, banks, the National Broadcasting
Read more84 Thai women now entrapped in Shan State
By Thai Newsroom Reporters EIGHTY-FOUR THAI WOMEN are currently entrapped in Myanmar’s Shan State where they had been earlier tempted by call-centre scams and flesh trade rackets, according to Paveena Hongsakul Foundation. The 84 Thai women reportedly detained by Myanmar authorities in Shan State include 62 females who had been lured into call-centre scams
Read moreHead of child welfare centre transferred after abuse surfaces
THE head of a child welfare centre in Saraburi province was immediately transferred today (May 29) after a Facebook user alleged that the 280 children sheltering there had been badly abused, TV Channel 7 said. According to this Facebook user some of the children at this child welfare centre in Phra Phutthabat district had
Read moreThai police, FBI swoop on call centre gang targeting Americans
A JOINT operation by the Thai police and US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Secret Service smashed a call centre gang operating from Thailand that has defrauded American citizens out of over US$3 billion, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (Mar. 21). National Police Chief Pol. Gen. Damrongsak Kittipraphat together with Pol. Gen. Torsak
Read morePoliceman suspected of selling data to call centre suspended
A POLICEMAN who holds the rank of police lieutenant colonel and is suspected to have together with a Commerce Ministry official sold information of over a thousand Thai citizens to a criminal call centre gang has been suspended while an investigation takes place, Matichon newspaper said today (Oct. 29). Pol. Lt. Gen. Thanayut. Wutthijarathamrong,
Read morePoliceman, official caught selling information to call centre gang
A POLICEMAN and a government official have been caught selling information about Thai citizens to a call centre gang and were paid 20,000 baht a day or 600,000 baht a month, Matichon newspaper said today (Oct. 28). Deputy National Police chief Pol. Gen. Torsak Sukvimol said the two suspects were among 16 arrested in
Read morePolice spokesman who laughed during massacre interview dismissed
THE Provincial Police Region 4’s spokesman was today (Oct. 10) dismissed from his duty after suddenly laughing during a telephone interview on the mass killing at the child care centre in Nong Bua Lamphu province, Amarin TV said this afternoon. Pol. Lt. Gen. Yanyong Wech-osoth, commander of this regional police force, ordered the dismissal of
Read morePolice: CNN team didn’t intend to intrude child care centre
TOP Thai police said this evening (Oct. 9) that the two CNN journalists whose coverage of the mass killing at the child care centre in Nong Bua Lamphu province was criticised by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand did not intend to intrude with the door being opened and the officials present allowing them to
Read more2 CNN journalists’ visas revoked over child care centre massacre coverage
AFTER the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand criticised a CNN team over its coverage of the mass killing at the child care centre in Nong Bua Lamphu province that left 36 small children and adults dead, the Thai Immigration police revoked the tourist visas of two CNN journalists who are now being questioned, Matichon
Read more36 temporary crematoria being built for massacre victims
OFFICIALS are building 36 temporary crematoria at the lawn in front of three temples in Nong Bua Lamphu province where a former policeman killed 36 small children and adults at a child care centre last Thursday (Oct. 6), Matichon newspaper said today. The victims will be cremated together on Tuesday (Oct. 11) after three
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