THE BANK of Thailand revealed that Thais are among cyber criminals favourite targets in Asia and as these scammers continuously come up with new tactics it led to a total of 56,746 online fraud cases in January this year with 3.981 billion baht being stolen, Matichon newspaper said today (Mar. 24). Mr. Pinyo Tripetcharaporn,
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Scammers using police hotline number to trick victims
THE CENTRAL Investigation Bureau (CIB) police warned the public to beware of scammers duping them by using fake police emergency hotline 191 to call them and hit them with forged warrants in order to get a big payoff, Amarin TV said today (Jan. 25). The scammers make video calls on the fake 191 hotline
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 moreOnline loan shark scammers nabbed in Bangkok, nine provinces
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A GROUP OF SUSPECTED loan shark racketeers has been rounded up in Bangkok and nine provinces, police said today (Nov.15). Central Investigation Bureau Commissioner Pol.Lt.Gen. Jirabhop Bhuridej announced a total of 13 suspected online scammers providing illegal loans with skyrocketing interest rates have been separately arrested by the police in
Read moreThree more cyber scammers nabbed in police sweep
FOLLOWING the recent arrest of two fraudsters who sold personal data of millions of people to the dark web, cyber police today (Nov. 6) revealed they had apprehended three more scammers with one of them having written a programme to bypass facial scan and steal large sums of money from the victims’ bank accounts,
Read moreScammer tells police: Thais most gullible in Asia
METROPOLITAN Police published an audio clip where a former call centre scammer said Thai people are the most gullible in Asia while jeering that if you have money then just bribe the police, TV Channel 7 said today (June 14). In the 1.34-minute audio clip, published on the Metropolitan Police Facebook page, the fraudster
Read moreThais got 17 million scam calls in 2022, 45% phone numbers leaked
THE total number of scam calls made to Thais last year jumped by 165% to 17 million while over 45% of phone numbers in this country, or 13.5 million, had been leaked, according to Gogolook, the Taiwan-based developer of caller identification app Whoscall, Naewna newspaper said today (Mar. 31). In its annual report Gogolook
Read moreCall centre scammers steal 16 million baht from businessman
A BUSINESSMAN in Chonburi lost 16 million baht in a call-centre scam after the fraudsters tricked him into installing what was claimed to be an Internal Trade Department app to update data but instead took control of his mobile phone and drained out the money from his bank accounts, Thai Rath newspaper said today
Read moreCall centre scammers use voice cloning to fleece Thai man
A FACEBOOK user warned that call centre scammers are now using voice cloning to trick their victims into sending them money by replicating the voice of a relative or a close friend, Amarin TV said today (Jan. 20). Ms. Jindapa “Bum” Kunavoratham revealed that her father got a call from a scammer pretending to
Read moreMoney drained out of tens of thousands of bank accounts
TENS of thousands of people who had their bank accounts drained by criminals today (Oct. 17) grouped together online to share their experiences after discovering that small sums of money, less than 100 baht, had been repeatedly withdrawn very quickly, Sanook.com said. Some people’s accounts had been completely drained this way with these accounts
Read moreNigerian romance scammers arrested in Phuket
POLICE at Phuket’s popular Patong beach arrested two Nigerian men on the charges of fleecing several women who they had ensnared with their romance trap and also overstaying in this country, Khaosod newspaper reported today (Sept. 13, 2020). The two men, aged 21 and 19, were arrested in their hotel room at this beach after
Read moreNigerian, Myanmar romance scammers nabbed
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FOUR NIGERIAN males and a Myanmar male were arrested today on online romance scamming charges in Hua Hin, police said. The police who acted on tip-offs to the faux romance scams arrested the Nigerian and Myanmar nationals who had allegedly preyed on Thai females, seeking to develop intimate relationships with well-to-do
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