AS MANY AS 7,000 victims of call centre gangs holed up along the Thai-Myanmar border are being released and sent across to Thailand on top of 261 who did so today (Feb. 12), Amarin TV said, Deputy Prime Minister/Defence Minister Phumthan Wechayachai said he got word of 261 scam operation victims coming across at
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Phumtham moving to cut power, Internet, fuel supply to Cambodia
AFTER cutting electricity, Internet and fuel supply from five points to Myanmar border townships where scam centres are operating Deputy Prime Minister/Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai is now expanding this strategy to three districts and an island in four provinces along the Thai-Cambodian border to suppress transnational criminals holed up across that border, Naewna newspaper
Read moreUS aid freeze sets back fight against human trafficking in Cambodia
By AP and published by Yahoo!News US President Donald Trump’s freeze on foreign assistance has dealt a blow to organisations fighting human trafficking and forced labour in Cambodia, where tens of thousands of people are held captive and forced to work in call centres running telephone scams. Hundreds of thousands of people work in
Read moreTwo senior police officers shunted out amid probe over Myawaddy scam hub links
NATIONAL Police Chief Pol. Gen. Kitrat Phanphet today (Feb. 11) transferred two senior police officers, commander of 5th Immigration Bureau and commander of Tak provincial police, while investigation is undertaken to determine whether they are linked to the scam hub in Myanmar’s Myawaddy township and human trafficking, Naewna newspaper said. Pol. Maj. Gen. Ekkarat
Read moreThaksin urged to get Cambodia-based scammers busted
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra has been encouraged to exert his personal influence to the extent that suspected call-centre scams based in Cambodia’s Poipet township and Sihanoukville city and preying on victims in Thailand be completely suppressed. Given his long-lasting, personal ties with former Cambodian prime minister Hun
Read more8 women among 61 scam centre victims released as minister visits Mae Sot
AMONG the 61 victims from seven countries lured to work at the scam hub in Myanmar’s Myawaddy township, opposite Thailand’s Mae Sot town, released today (Feb. 6) are eight women, Naewna newspaper said, Rachamanu Task Force revealed that the 61 victims who had been working at the notorious Shwe Kokko scam centre in Myawaddy
Read moreChina’s Xi and Paetongtarn vow to crack down on scam networks that plague Southeast Asia
By AP and published by Yahoo!News CHINA’S leader Xi Jinping and visiting Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra vowed to crack down on the scam networks that plague Southeast Asia as the two leaders met today (Feb. 6) in Beijing. Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, which are south of China and share borders with Thailand, have
Read moreMyawaddy scammers conning victims as usual having prepared in advance
DESPITE Thailand having this morning (Feb. 5) cut electricity, Internet and fuel supply to Myanmar’s Myawaddy township, just across the border from Mae Sot district, workers at a flourishing scam hub are continuing to con their victims as usual because their criminal bosses have stocked up fuel and installed backup generators in advance, Naewna
Read moreThailand zeros in on scam gangs by cutting power, Internet and fuel supply from tomorrow morning
THAILAND is taking aim at call centre scammers ensconced along the border in Myanmar by cutting off electricity, Internet and fuel delivery to five areas from 9 a.m. tomorrow morning (Feb. 5), TV Channel 7 and Amarin TV said this evening. Deputy Prime Minister/Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai called an urgent meeting of the National
Read moreNigerian romance scam mule account holder arrested at airport
A THAI WOMAN returning from Malaysia was arrested as soon as her flight landed at Hat Yai Airport on charges of allowing a Nigerian romance scam gang use her bank accounts for the transfer of as much as 6.2 billion baht swindled from a victim in 2019, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Feb. 2).
Read moreAnutin urged to cut off power supply to scam centre in Myawaddy
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER-cum-Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul was pressed today (Jan.23) to cut off Thailand’s power supply for suspected transnational criminals in Myanmar once and for all. People’s MP Rangsiman Rome, who chairs the House Committee on State Security, Border Affairs & National Strategies and Reforms, called on Anutin to take
Read more32 Indonesian escape from Myawaddy scam hub
AS the bosses of a scam centre at Myanmar’s Myawaddy township, across the border from Thai town Mae Sot, have come under pressure 32 Indonesians managed to flee to Thailand today (Jan. 19), TV Channel 7 said. A joint patrol of the border by Rajamanu Task Force, Mae Sot and Immigration police and local
Read more‘True’ warns customers not to fall for fake circular sent by scammers
AS SOME customers of True Corporation Plc have received letters in TrueMove H’s name and emblazoned with its logo the communications giant issued a warning not to be taken in as this is the work of scammers, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (Nov. 28). The scam letter invites customers to directly contact police by
Read more39 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 moreIndian duped into buying ‘magic herb’ by two Pakistanis in Pattaya
AN Indian tourist filed a complaint at Pattaya City police station that he had been duped into buying two bottles of a “magic herb” by two Pakistani men at 10,000 baht each with police saying that other tourists too had been similarly scammed, TV Channel 7 said today (Nov. 7). The 34-year-old unidentified tourist
Read moreMore victims of Feng Shui fortune teller’s scam file complaints
AS MANY AS 25 victims of a famous Feng Shui fortune teller’s scam have filed complaints against him with total losses reaching over 80 million baht, Thai Rath newspaper said this afternoon (Nov. 6). Pol. Col. Anek Taosuphap, deputy commander of the Crime Suppression Division, said the first victim to file a complaint against
Read moreDemocrat MP’s daughter conned by call scam into transferring cash
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
Read moreSoldier held for scamming 60 women he met through dating app
A SOLDIER was arrested today (Oct. 22) for scamming as many as 60 women he met through a dating app and blackmailing many of them by threatening to publish compromising video clips, Naewna newspaper said. Pol. Col. Chakaj Thiamwong, deputy commander of the Udon Thani provincial police, and his team announced the arrest of
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 morePublic warned not to click scam message with PM’s photo attached
THE government urged the public to not click any scam text messages with Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin’s photo attached asking them to check their rights and the conditions for obtaining the much-heralded, yet-delayed populist handout of 10,000 baht digital wallet because doing so will enable scammers to lock their mobile phones and drain all
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