By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO KLATHAM BOSS Thammanat Prompao and Klatham leader Narumon Pinyosinwat have been summoned by a House committee for testimony scheduled for tomorrow (Oct.30) over their alleged personal association with a South African-born wheeler-dealer who had been covertly involved in Cambodia-based scammer networks. House Committee on State Security, Border Affairs
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Police officer sacked for involvement with call centre gang
A METROPOLITAN police officer holding the rank of deputy superintendent for investigation was dismissed today (Oct. 28) after being arrested on charges of involvement with a call centre gang, Naewna newspaper and Amarin TV said. Pol. Lt. Gen. Sayam Boonsom, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, and Pol. Maj. Gen. Kiattikul Sonthinet, commander of
Read morePM might dissolve House by early Dec. to call election by early Feb.
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER ANUTIN Charnvirakul might probably dissolve the House of Representatives by early December to preempt censure debate with the likelihood of the Cambodia-based scammer issue topping the otherwise marathon agenda, among other topics, according to a noted government critic. The prime minister-cum-interior minister might probably opt to dissolve the
Read more7 Thai politicians not linked to a Cambodian scam case: South Korea
AFTER word spread in local media that the South Korean government is about to name seven Thai politicians as being involved with a Cambodian scam case, the South Korean embassy immediately issued a denial and branded it as fake news, Naewna newspaper and Amarin TV said today (Oct. 19). In a statement published on
Read moreThailand and South Korea join forces to combat call centre scammers in Cambodia
THAI Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung agreed to join forces to combat call centre scammers in Cambodia during a phone call today (Oct. 16), Naewna newspaper said. Ms. Traisulee Traisaranakul, secretary-general to the Prime Minister, said in a Facebook post the South Korean President mentioned during the telephone
Read moreThai NGO asks Karens to help free 90 human trafficking victims
A THAI non-government organization (NGO) team urged leaders of Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) to help free 90 victims of human trafficking who despite having requested assistance are still being detained and tortured by Chinese Mafia running online scam centres at Myawaddy township, just across from Thai border town Mae Sot, Amarin TV said.
Read moreThai-Cambodian meeting adds mine clearing to ceasefire provisions
THAILAND and Cambodia have signed a Regional Border Committee (RBC) agreement upholding all 13 provisions of the ceasefire agreed upon at General Border Committee (GBC) meeting in Malaysia with mine clearing being among three additional provisions accepted, Amarin TV said today (Aug 22). The other two are jointly suppressing call centre scammers and establishing
Read moreCambodia-based scammers’ income equals cost of nearly 300 F-16 jets
By Thai Newsroom Reporters ONLINE SCAMS based in Cambodia, operated by criminals hiding out in the Southeast Asian country and preying on victims worldwide were believed to account for an estimated 19 billion dollars in illicit income per year, former Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy remarked today (Aug.13). According to Rainsy’s latest post on
Read moreNearly 200 Thai migrant workers want to return to Khmer dens
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NEARLY 200 THAI NATIONALS have been found currently looking to return to Cambodia for jobs mostly suspected in relation to call-centre fraud, online gambling scams and casinos because they would probably anticipate border clashes between Thai and Cambodian forces which occurred far from their usual workplaces to alleviate and return
Read moreSon and daughter of scam boss close to Hun Sen wanted
ARREST warrants have been issued for the son and daughter of a Cambodian national who is close to the neighbouring country’s leader Hun Sen and is the boss of a transnational call centre network, Naewna newspaper said today (July 15). Technology Crime Suppression Police, or Cyber Police, are also searching seven more targeted locations
Read moreSouth Korean financial, romance scammers nabbed in Chonburi villa raid
Updated at 12.55 a.m. A RAID on a luxury pool villa in Bang Lamung district of Chonburi today (June 21) led to the arrest of 20 South Korean men and just one Chinese man on the charges of running a financial and romance scam operation, Thai Rath newspaper said this evening. A team of
Read moreOver a hundred Thais nabbed for scam links in Cambodia
A TOTAL of 119 Thais who were arrested by Cambodian authorities in Poipet border town, just across from Aranyaprathet, on charges of involvement with online call centre gangs are being handed over to Thai police today (March 1), Amarin TV said. Pol. Lt. Gen. Trairong Phiwphan, head of Technology Crime Suppression Division, is going
Read moreKaren rebel leader may be nabbed for alleged involvement in transnational crimes
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PHEU THAI-LED government was today (Feb. 10) encouraged to have Karen rebel leader Saw Chit Thu arrested on charges of alleged involvement in crimes perpetrated across the Thai-Myanmar border. People’s MP Rangsiman Rome posted on his Facebook page to prompt the Pheu Thai-led government to manage to get an
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 morePolice measures against transnational crimes stepped up in Chanthaburi
By Thai Newsroom Reporters POLICE HAVE STEPPED UP measures to deter and combat transnational crimes across the Thai-Cambodian border from Chanthaburi which could possibly flourish in lieu of those in Myanmar’s townships across the border from Thailand’s northern and northwestern provinces. Now that Thailand has shut off power and Internet signals earlier supplied ”unawares”
Read morePayathonzu border town cloaked in darkness after power cut
AFTER Thailand shut off electricity, Internet and fuel supplies from five points to Myanmar yesterday (Feb. 5) the neighbouring country’s Payathonzu border town, opposite Sangkhla Buri district in Kanchanaburi, plunged into darkness , Naewna newspaper said today. This action was taken by the National Security Council because call centre scammers entrenched along the Myanmar
Read morePM yet to order power supply freeze to Myanmar townships: Anutin
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER-cum-Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul commented today (Jan.30) Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has not as yet ordered him to shut off power supply to a Myanmar township where criminal rackets have thrived across the shared border from Thailand. Anutin said he could not act on his own in regard
Read moreCabinet nod to toughen law on call centres and cybercrimes
THE CABINET today (Jan. 28) approved a draft to amend the cybercrime decree and give officials absolute power to arrest, revoke and increase punishment with banking apps and mobile networks no longer able to shirk responsibility, Naewna newspaper said. Mr. Jirayu Huangtrakul, the Prime Minister’s Office spokesman, said this amendment to the Royal Decree
Read moreScammers hitting shopkeepers by showing fake QR code payment slips
MANY shopkeepers at a Rayang market cheated by scammers who buy lots of products and then show fake QR code payment slips on their mobile phones warned others to be careful, TV Channel 7 said today (Dec. 10). CCTV cameras inside P. Charoenphan shop at Ban Phe market in Rayong city filmed a male
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
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