The Thai Police Cyber Taskforce (PCT) announced today (Thursday) a crackdown on a major call centre gang in Cambodia and the arrest of 28 suspects, among them two Taiwanese.

 

Numerous items of equipment used in the alleged scam, including 30 iPhones, 68 AIO computers, four notebook computers and eight walkie-talkies, were seized in raids on gang’s two offices in Cambodia’s Preah Sihanouk Province.

 

Thailand’s Deputy National Police Chief and head of the PCT, told the media today that the successful operation on Sunday was facilitated by Cambodian police, who led the Thai police in the raids of the two offices, one of which was an abandoned factory.

 

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20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

arrest of 28 suspects, among them two Taiwanese.

This operation at an abandoned factory and a casino is headline news here in Cambodia today.

 

"police detained 61 people – 59 Thais and two Chinese during the raids on a phone scam gang in Sihanoukville"

"Twenty-eight of them were being treated as key suspects, five others lured into the operation were rescued while  the rest were still being investigated"

" would tell people there were parcels for them sent by DHL or FedEx, but customs officials had seized them because they contained illegal goods........ lured into transferring money to a bogus officer."

 

 https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501047103/cambodian-and-thai-police-smash-phone-scam-ring/

5 minutes ago, Burma Bill said:

" would tell people there were parcels for them sent by DHL or FedEx, but customs officials had seized them because they contained illegal goods........ lured into transferring money to a bogus officer."

They used to have a similar scams going on at Suvarnabhumi airport.

 

Foreigners taken to hotel rooms and extorted.

 

Sri Lankan Tony, remember him?