By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER ANUTIN Charnvirakul was again summoned to testify before a House committee tomorrow (Dec.11) over government measures to crack down on Cambodia-based scam networks allegedly involving suspected rogue dealer Benjamin Mauerberger, alias Ben Smith, and others who reportedly remain at large. House Committee on State Security, Border Affairs &
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Myanmar junta, Karen army dynamite scam hub building at border
THE MYANMAR junta together with Karen National Army dynamited a 12-storey building used for online scam operations and human-trafficking at Shwe Kokko Special Economic Zone in Myawaddy border town, opposite Thai Mae Sot town, PPTVHD36 said today (Dec. 3). This building is next to the Moei river, which forms the border between the two
Read moreAnother Thai man tortured to death at Poipet
A NON-GOVERNMENT Organisation revealed today (Nov. 23) that another Thai man has died in Poipet, Cambodia, after being tortured and electrocuted and it is uncertain whether his body will be recovered, Amarin TV said. The Immanuel Foundation Thailand said in a Facebook post that information about the death of Mr. Narong Kam, also known
Read moreAnother Thai found dead in Poipet after being brutally beaten
THE body of a Thai man has reportedly been found at Cambodian border town Poipet, opposite Aranyaprathet, after he was brutally assaulted by a scam gang he had been lured to work for, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Nov. 18). Mr. Sarawut, or Toto, a resident of Samut Prakan, was said to have been
Read moreAnutin urged to fire Thammanat over suspected scam association
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER ANUTIN Charnvirakul was today (Nov.6) encouraged to dismiss Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Agriculture & Cooperatives Minister/de facto Klatham boss Thammanat Prompao due to his suspected association with transnational scammers and fraudsters otherwise the government’s anti-scam measures might not be successful. House Committee on State Security, Border Affairs & National Strategies
Read moreMyanmar scam hub sweep triggers fraudster recruitment rush
By AFP and published by CNA RECENT raids on one of Myanmar’s most notorious internet scam hubs sparked a recruitment rush as fleeing workers scrambled to enlist at nearby fraud factories, experts and insiders told AFP. Online scam hubs have mushroomed across Southeast Asia, draining unsuspecting victims of billions of dollars annually in elaborate
Read moreMyanmar military drones blast scam compound again
THE MYANMAR junta again pounded KK Park, the notorious scam complex at Myawaddy township, Kayin state, yesterday (Oct. 30) with its drones dropping bombs three times and this leading to more fearful foreign workers fleeing across the border to the Thai Mae Sot district, just across from Moei river, Amarin TV said. Karen Border
Read moreScammers have moved their base from Cambodia to Thailand: Magazine
SCAM gangsters have allegedly moved their base from Cambodia to Thailand following joint crackdown by South Korean and Cambodian police in the neighbouring country, Amarin TV quoted an article published by South Korean magazine Sisa Journal as saying this evening (Oct. 21). This magazine’s reporter contacted the middle manager of a scam centre in
Read moreBelarusian model kidnapped from Bangkok, killed for organs by scammers in Myanmar
A YOUNG Belarusian model who travelled to Bangkok for a job interview on Sep. 20 was abducted and taken to a scam centre in Myanmar where she was murdered and her organs sold, Naewna and Thai Rath quoted The Standard in Hong Kong and Daily Mail in UK as saying this morning (Oct. 21).
Read moreKoreans linked to alleged online scams in Cambodia arrive home to face inquiries
By AP published by The Canadian Press and Yahoo!Finance Seoul, South Korea – Dozens of South Koreans allegedly involved in online scams in Cambodia arrived in South Korea on a chartered flight today (Oct. 18) to face criminal investigations. The repatriation follows the death of a South Korean student who was reportedly forced to
Read moreUS and UK take largest action ever targeting cybercriminal networks in Southeast Asia
Washington – The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), in close coordination with the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO), took complementary actions against criminal networks responsible for targeting citizens of the United States and other allied nations through online scams
Read moreOver 50 mini PCs, illicit SIM routers seized in raid on Chinese-rented condo
A RAID on a condominium unit in Bangkok’s Prawet district rented by a Chinese man led to the seizure of over 50 mini PCs hooked on to unauthorised SIM routers which were likely used by a call centre scam gang to intercept online data, Amarin TV said this evening (Oct. 6). Following a tip-off
Read moreNew scam centre emerges in Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province: Cyber Police
IN RAIDING and destroying the criminal network of a Cambodian suspect who is close to the neighbouring country’s Senate President Hun Sen on charges of running a call centre gang in Poipet, opposite Aranayprathet border town, Technology Crime Suppression Division or Cyber Police discovered that Chinese grey capitalists had moved their crime hub to
Read moreAnother suspect in Dr. Boon scam case arrested
ANOTHER suspect in the case against Dr. Boon Vanasin, 86, and his accomplices on the charges of jointly defrauding the public and borrowing money in a fraudulent manner has been arrested after the female broker reportedly returned to Thailand, Amarin TV said late last night (Apr. 15). The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) told
Read moreRescued scam workers almost clash with Karen fighters at Myawaddy
A GROUP of 275 foreign scam workers, mostly Ethiopians and other Africans, who were among thousands rescued from call centre complexes in Myawaddy township, just across from Thai border town Mae Sot, early February almost clashed with Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) fighters as they rose up to protest being held at a squalid,
Read more‘Escaping hell’: Myanmar scam centre workers plead to go home
By AFP and published by CNA Myawaddy – Hundreds of exhausted young men lie in an open-sided detention centre in a seedy Myanmar border town, sweating through thick tropical heat by day and prey to clouds of mosquitoes by night. They are among some 7,000 people from more than two dozen countries released from
Read moreThai-Indian man held for smuggling 15.7m baht ‘casino win’ across the border
AMIDST the current stringent control of the Thai-Cambodian border to intercept call-centre gangs moving their base of operation from Myanmar to Cambodia, a Thai-Indian man was arrested this morning (Feb. 23) at Khlong Luek checkpoint, Aranyaprathet district, Sa Kaeo province, after officials found 15.7 million baht in cash within a large backpack he was
Read moreKaren leader arrests 2 call-centre gang leaders
KAREN Border Guard Force (BGF) leader Saw Chit Thu has arrested two Chinese bosses of call-centre operations in Myawaddy township, just across the border from Mae Sot town, with the pair being among seven wanted by China, TV Channel 7 said late afternoon today (Feb. 19). The Karen leader, who is himself being investigated
Read moreCyber Police in about-face on scam workers: Most were trafficked
THE Cyber Police said most of the 260 scam workers who have been screened are victims with only two to three having volunteered to work for the call-centre criminals rather just one of them being trafficked as earlier stated, Amarin TV said today (Feb. 17). Pol. Lt. Gen. Trairong Phiwphan, head of the Technology
Read moreOnly 1% of returning scam centre workers are victims: Police
A SENIOR police officer said only 1% of workers at scam hubs in neighbouring countries were lured by the gangsters with the rest having willingly joined their transnational criminal bosses in scamming victims worldwide, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Feb. 13). Pol. Gen. Thatchai Pitaneelabut, head of the Centre for the Protection of Children,
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