SCB "phishing" case: Immigration announce arrest of three Chinese in Bangkok

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thailand's immigration bureau chief Lt-Gen Sompong Chingduang and deputies were joined by a security official of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) at IB HQ yesterday to announce the arrest of three members of a Chinese gang. 

 

They are part of an international conspiracy with connections in Taiwan and were involved in a phishing attack against SCB in recent months.

 

The SCB man denied that it was in any way an inside job.   

 

Yong, 36, and Yeow, 46 were arrested in Charoen Krung Soi 91 and Phoey, 45, was subsequently caught in Kheha Rom Klao Soi 64 in Lat Krabang.

 

Taken into evidence were 88 items including phones, ATM cards, a scanner, bank books, computer and a list of phone numbers.

 

SMSs had been sent to customers of the bank asking for personal information. OTPs were then used.

 

The gang then opened SCB Easy accounts to transfer victims' money to other banks' accounts in Thailand. The money was then changed digitally to dollars then transferred to Taiwan to another individual.

 

Kanich Cheuathanapinyo, a security officer at SCB, said 21 victims had lost 700,000 baht. 

 

He said that SCB would never ask for personal information via SMS and the bank are working on ways to improve how one time passwords are issued in light of the case. 

 

He denied that anyone at the bank was involved in the scam. Other banks were not affected, just SCB. 

 

Thai Rath suggested that a deputy at immigration Pol Col Sathit Phromuthai nearly became a victim though in their story it emerged that he was just a recipient of two SMSs on his phone and he was not even a customer of SCB. 

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

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Yong Yeow phoey . Brother of the well known Hong Kong phoey ?? ????

I assume they were here on annual O-Visa extensions by reason of "criminal gang activity"