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Raid on Chiang Mai luxury villa finds 20 Chinese scammers
Gary Boyle, Published on 31/10/2025
» Twenty Chinese people were arrested at a luxury pool villa in Chiang Mai on Thursday, suspected of operating scams targeting compatriots in China.
215 foreigners rescued from Cambodian scam centre
Gary Boyle, Published on 24/02/2025
» Cambodian police have rescued 215 foreigners, 109 of them Thais, from a scam compound in Poipet city.
Hilltribe girls lured into selling sex to Chinese customers
Gary Boyle, Published on 06/12/2024
» Two young women have been arrested separately for their alleged involvement in luring 25 underage tribal girls from northern Thailand into selling sex to Chinese customers in Bangkok.
Romance scam sets world record
Gary Boyle, 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).
Man threatens suicide over soldier's 'adultery' with wife
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 21/05/2019
» A 66-year-old man put a cutter to his throat in a bid to seek justice from Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha over the conduct of a soldier based in Roi Et who allegedly committed adultery with his wife. Police later overpowered the man.
Sisters arrested for online fraud say they are also victims
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 14/09/2018
» Two sisters in Satun have been arrested on charges of swindling about 100 people out of at least 10 million baht in total through fraudulent online gold investments.
Cosmetic supplements producer conned into paying bribe
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 27/07/2018
» A 47-year-old woman has been charged with fraud and demanding money to be used as bribes from the owner of a cosmetics and food supplements firm embroiled in the Magic Skin case.
Thais, Taiwanese phone-scammers caught in Malaysia
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 06/06/2018
» Ten Thais and two Taiwanese were arrested during a joint raid by Thai and Malaysian police on a house in Penang, Malaysia, used as a base by a Taiwanese-led phone-call syndicate late on Tuesday night.