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Cyber police target 20 firms over investment swindle
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 24/09/2025
» Cybercrime police are pursuing legal action against 20 companies linked to a major investment scam that defrauded one victim out of 26 million baht.
Thai police influencers seek to warn against crime online
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 10/11/2024
» In an age when people turn to social media figures for help, national police chief Kittharath Punpetch is planning to develop the Royal Thai Police (RTP)'s own influencers to build a direct connection with the public and warn them about crimes.
Visa 'fixer' swindled Japanese businessman out of B300,000
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 21/08/2024
» A Japanese garment exporter has accused a Thai "fixer" of swindling him out of 300,000 baht with a false promise to help him get a permanent visa.
6 members of 2 major scam gangs arrested, including 2 Chinese nationals
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 29/04/2024
» Six suspected members of two major call centre scam gangs have been arrested separately with cash and other assets worth about 42 million baht seized. One Chinese suspect managed digital wallets with about 70 billion baht in circulation.
Chinese gangsters arrested for fake gold scam
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 25/04/2023
» Six Chinese men accused of duping wealthy Thai-Chinese in Chinatown into buying fake gold worth about 10 million baht have been arrested with almost 200 fake ingots.
Boy's suicide leads to woman's arrest for swindling
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 11/01/2023
» A woman has been arrested for public swindle after a teenage student she is alleged to have cheated out of 14,000 baht he invested with her committed suicide.
Call centre clampdown nets 94
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 31/07/2022
» Cambodian authorities have deported 94 Thais who worked or conspired with call centre gangs in Phnom Penh back to Thailand to face justice, say police.
Six arrests over B20m antigen test kit scam
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 08/06/2022
» Six people have been arrested for providing bank accounts for the operators of a 20-million-baht medical supplies scam involving the online sale of non-existent antigen test kits (ATKs).
Romance scam sets world record
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 02/05/2022
» In late 2019 Essilor International discovered fraudulent fund transfers totalling 6.3 billion baht at its Thai unit, Essilor Manufacturing (Thailand).
21 Thais cuffed in Cambodia on fraud charges
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 13/02/2022
» Twenty-one Thais working for fraud gangs in Cambodia were to be deported to Thailand via Sa Kaeo province yesterday, following raids in Phnom Penh and Preah Sihanouk province on Friday.