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Accused Japanese scam gang boss arrested in Bangkok
Online Reporters, Published on 20/03/2025
» A Japanese man who is believed to be a leader of call-centre scam gangs in Cambodia and Vietnam has been arrested for a string of crimes in Japan following a police raid on a rented house in Bangkok.
PM commits to eliminating scam gangs preying on Thais
Online Reporters, Published on 25/02/2025
» The government will not end its drive against scam gangs operating from neighbouring countries ripping off Thais until the problem is eliminated, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Tuesday.
Exposed: Thai call scammers in police uniforms
Online Reporters, Published on 16/07/2024
» The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) warns that call centre scammers wearing police uniforms are preying on victims via video chat, and is asking people with any information about them to come forward.
Raid nets 58 Chinese for chat-app stock sales scam
Online Reporters, Published on 04/09/2019
» Fifty-eight Chinese nationals have been arrested at a Bangkok hotel for defrauding their compatriots through sales of manipulated, worthless shares using a chat-app.
Man preying on web shoppers nabbed
Online Reporters, Published on 20/07/2019
» A young man preying on online shoppers has been arrested in Bangkok’s Lat Krabang district after three years on the run.
Tourist assaulted on Phi Phi, two teenagers detained
Online Reporters, Published on 15/03/2019
» KRABI: Police have detained two young suspects in the attack on an American man who tried to stop a thief making off with a purse on the beach on Koh Phi Phi last Saturday.
Nigerian, Thai romance scammers caught in Malaysia
Online Reporters, Published on 24/01/2019
» Fourteen people, Nigerians and Thais, wanted for swindling Thai women out of more than 100 million baht via online romance scams have been arrested during joint police raids in Malaysia.
5 Nigerians, 12 Thais held in romance scams
Online Reporters, Published on 15/09/2018
» Seventeen people — five Nigerians and 12 Thais — have been arrested for allegedly swindling 48 Thai women out of almost 6 million baht via online romance scams.