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PM Paetongtarn targeted by imposter scammer
Online Reporters, Published on 15/01/2025
» Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra admitted on Wednesday she had been targeted by a scam caller posing as another country’s leader using AI voice cloning, and that she almost fell for it.
Court gives bail to Queen mimic
Post Reporters, Published on 22/08/2024
» The Supreme Court granted bail to activist Jatuporn Sae Ung, who was found guilty of impersonating Her Majesty the Queen during a 2020 demonstration.
Royal imposter loses appeal against prison term
Post Reporters, Published on 19/08/2024
» The Appeal Court has upheld the two-year prison term given to a woman activist found guilty of dressing up and acting like HM the Queen during a demonstration in 2020.
Pita's bodyguard suspended over criminal record
Post Reporters, Published on 25/07/2023
» The Move Forward Party has suspended a bodyguard employed for leader Pita Limjaroenrat after it was revealed he is a convicted police imposter and extortionist.
Scammer arrested by the policewoman she pretended to be
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 12/12/2022
» A woman who created a fake Facebook account in the name of a senior police inspector and bilked almost half a million baht from the cop's contacts has been arrested -- by the real police officer whose identity she stole.
Army: Runaway groom a bogus soldier
Wassana Nanuam and Manit Sanubboon, Published on 06/05/2022
» A runaway groom who abandoned his bride on their wedding day in Prachin Buri province was not a soldier serving in the South, as he had claimed to be, a Royal Thai Army spokeswoman said on Friday.
Imposter CSD chief arrested for fraud
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 16/06/2020
» A young man accused of passing himself off as the chief of the Crime Suppression Division has been arrested for soliciting money online to help people who were swindled.
Imposter kin of ex-police chief arrested in fraud case
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 29/11/2018
» A 27-year-old woman has been arrested on Koh Phangan, in Surat Thani, for allegedly posing as a relative of former police chief Somyot Poompanmouang and defrauding a person of 1.27 million baht via a social media "investment" offer.
Woman arrested for double fraud, posing as prosecutor
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 18/10/2018
» A 46-year-old Lamphun woman stands accused of creating a LINE account for a bogus deputy attorney-general and then soliciting a "bribe" from another woman in exchange for helping her son in a drug case.
'Big Joke' lands officers in hot water
News, Published on 23/05/2018
» Several police officers face investigation and possibly serious disciplinary action after paying about 5 million baht for promotions to a person they believed to be the high-profile deputy tourist police chief Surachate Hakparn, aka "Big Joke".