Police arrested a 17 12 months previous boy who offered ghost SIM cards on-line at his home in Ranong province in southern Thailand. The teenager used information from his earlier prospects to repeatedly register SIM cards for sale. Narudom managed to make over 500 transactions.
Officers from the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau raided a house within the Khao Niwet sub-district, Mueng district, Ranong province yesterday and arrested the teenager, Narudom, also called M, who offered ghost SIM cards by way of a Facebook account called Mr M (นาย’ย เอ็ม’ม).
Following the investigation, the police seized 703 registered SIM cards, a cell phone, and two SIM card readers as evidence.
The arrest came after the police received a tip-off that someone was secretly selling ghost SIM cards on Facebook. No sweat led officers to the mentioned Facebook web page the place they discovered a quantity of posts promoting numerous types 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 promoting the ghost SIM playing cards on-line. He revealed that he ordered the unregistered SIM playing cards from an area cellphone store. He then posted the items on the market on Facebook and would register the SIM cards when receiving the orders. He used the private info of his earlier customers who had purchased SIM cards from him.
Consequently, the police charged Narudom with arranging, promoting, or otherwise facilitating the sale of mobile phone numbers for cell phone providers which have been registered under somebody else’s title, however cannot be recognized. The penalty will be imprisonment of up to three years and a nice of as much as 300,000 baht.
According to ThaiRath, police in the Isaan province of Khon Kaen arrested three suspects for promoting ghost SIM playing cards right now. The first suspect was a 49 year outdated woman named Pinyada Thongteeraparp who offered ghost SIM playing cards by way of the e-commerce application Shopee. The second suspect was a 42 year outdated man named Thanakrit Homchan who owned an area telephone store within the province. The latest suspect was a 34 12 months old girl named Kanyaphak Chantasi who sold the ghost SIM playing cards at her telephone store positioned in a shopping center..