A Thai authorities spokesman has announced that Thailand and Cambodia plan to signal an MOU collectively quickly to crack down on name centre scams. The spokesman said the Police Cyber Taskforce recently raided the operational base of a network of 4 gambling web sites in Nonthaburi. He stated the community had greater than 200,000 clients with 200 million baht a month in circulation.
In the previous yr, Thailand and Cambodia have cooperated to arrest of as many as 6,348 suspects, in 5,517 cases. They have arrested the house owners of 344 bank accounts, and closed down 742 URLs. The web sites had been blamed for causing damages value 157 million baht to Thais.
The spokesman says PM Prayut has advised government companies concerned to launch consciousness campaigns to educate individuals on how to spot scams. He stated the Digital Economy and Society Ministry had additionally built-in its operations with other government agencies to suppress call-centre gangs and gambling websites.
One main rip-off towards a foreigner happened final month when scammers pretended to be police. The ‘police’ called a Swiss man in Phuket, saying a FedEx package deal couldn’t be delivered. Since Forgotten was anticipating a FedEx package, he listened. The story then modified to say Bangkok police were holding a bundle in his identify. The scammers told the person, Alain, that one man transferred 800,000 baht to Alain, and the other transferred 900,000 baht to him. They had been finally able to bully Alain into transferring 57,000 baht to them.