Suspected call center scammer nabbed with 26 ATM cards and 18 bank books

 

 

Tourist police has arrested an 18-year old Taiwanese suspected to be a member of a call centre scamming gang while he was withdrawing cash from an ATM at a hotel in Huay Kwang district Tuesday night.

 

The suspect, identified as Choen Fan-wei, was later escorted by police to his apartment room where the police found 18 bank books, 26 ATM cards, 11,100 baht in cash and cash withdrawal slips.

 

Pol Maj-Gen Surachet Hakpan, deputy commissioner of Tourist Police Bureau, said that the Taiwanese suspect arrived in Thailand on January 20 and his main job was to withdraw cash from ATM machines with the ATM cards in his possession.

 

In just three days, the suspect withdrew over one million baht in cash from ATM machines and then the money would immediately be sent to Taiwan to be invested in bitcoin business.

 

Full Story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/suspected-call-center-scammer-nabbed-26-atm-cards-18-bank-books/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-1-24

christ, how many of these people are there here. Looks like a huge business

Doesn't make any sense.

 

If these idiots give up their atm cards over a fake line message insinuating they were involved in a crime then they almost deserve to lose the money.

 

At what point do they sacrifice their pin numbers without realizing they are just giving money away?

Edited January 24, 20188 yr by coulson
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Ah, bitcoin. Kind of makes a mockery of the money laundering rules, beats watches anyway.

Edited January 24, 20188 yr by nausea
More info.

49 minutes ago, Happy enough said:

christ, how many of these people are there here. Looks like a huge business

Only a huge business if there are enough idiots to fall for it

2 hours ago, coulson said:

Only a huge business if there are enough idiots to fall for it

i personally wouldn't call the victim of scams idiots, rather they are victims. and i don't believe they were all the same scam. i think they had a few different methods