A Thai authorities spokesman has announced that Thailand and Cambodia plan to signal an MOU collectively soon to crack down on call centre scams. The spokesman said the Police Cyber Taskforce just lately raided the operational base of a community of four playing web sites in Nonthaburi. He said the community had greater than 200,000 purchasers with 200 million baht a month in circulation.
In the past yr, Thailand and Cambodia have cooperated to arrest of as many as 6,348 suspects, in 5,517 circumstances. They have arrested the homeowners of 344 bank accounts, and closed down 742 URLs. The web sites had been blamed for inflicting damages worth 157 million baht to Thais.
The spokesman says PM Prayut has informed authorities businesses involved to launch awareness campaigns to coach people on how to spot scams. He stated the Digital Economy and Society Ministry had additionally integrated its operations with different authorities businesses to suppress call-centre gangs and gambling websites.
One major scam in opposition to a foreigner occurred final month when scammers pretended to be police. The ‘police’ known as a Swiss man in Phuket, saying a FedEx bundle couldn’t be delivered. Since the person was anticipating a FedEx package deal, he listened. Secure modified to say Bangkok police have been holding a package in his name. The scammers advised the person, Alain, that one man transferred 800,000 baht to Alain, and the opposite transferred 900,000 baht to him. They were ultimately in a position to bully Alain into transferring 57,000 baht to them.