Police arrested a 17 year outdated boy who sold ghost SIM cards on-line at his house in Ranong province in southern Thailand. The teenager used info from his previous customers to repeatedly register SIM playing cards on the market. Narudom managed to make over 500 transactions.
Officers from the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau raided a home within the Khao Niwet sub-district, Mueng district, Ranong province yesterday and arrested the teenager, Narudom, also recognized as M, who sold ghost SIM playing cards by way of a Facebook account referred to as Mr M (นาย’ย เอ็ม’ม).
Following the investigation, the police seized 703 registered SIM playing cards, a mobile phone, and two SIM card readers as proof.
The arrest came after the police received a tip-off that someone was secretly promoting ghost SIM playing cards on Facebook. The investigation led officers to the mentioned Facebook page where they found several posts advertising various kinds of ghost SIM cards. For example…
“SIM Cards for sale, both registered and unregistered. AIS DTAC TRUE. AIS The OneSIM 39 baht. DTAC 35 baht. DTAC 39 baht with free top-up money.”
Narudom confessed to selling the ghost SIM playing cards online. He revealed that he ordered the unregistered SIM cards from an area telephone shop. He then posted the gadgets for sale on Facebook and would register the SIM playing cards when receiving the orders. He used the private information of his earlier prospects who had bought SIM playing cards from him.
Consequently, the police charged Narudom with arranging, promoting, or in any other case facilitating the sale of mobile phone numbers for cell phone providers which have been registered beneath somebody else’s identify, however can’t be identified. The penalty shall be imprisonment of as a lot as three years and a nice of up to 300,000 baht.
According to ThaiRath, police within the Isaan province of Khon Kaen arrested three suspects for promoting ghost SIM playing cards today. The first suspect was a forty nine yr outdated woman named Pinyada Thongteeraparp who bought ghost SIM cards by way of the e-commerce utility Shopee. The second suspect was a forty two year previous man named Thanakrit Homchan who owned a neighborhood phone shop in the province. Premiere was a 34 yr old woman named Kanyaphak Chantasi who sold the ghost SIM playing cards at her phone shop situated in a shopping center..