Picture: Siam Rath

 

A group of 156 victims of call center fraud worth 76 million baht represented by Portnthip Withayawornphat, 51, a foreign NGO rep and designer Sawin Phianphithak, 51, went to ask social activist Paweena Hongsakul for help yesterday at the foundation that bears her name in Pathum Thani.

 

They want action against a call center run in Cambodia and the employees tricked into working there brought back to Thailand, reported Siam Rath. 

 

Pornthip said she personally lost 400,000 baht after she was contacted by people claiming to work for DHL who said they had a parcel containing an illegal substance connected to a man involved in a money laundering case.

 

She said she had nothing to do with such a business but was conned into parting with money to prove her innocence on the pretext of getting it back. 

 

Of the victims of the gang 95% are women in homes where they are single mothers, mothers of newborns or pregnant women or older women.

 

They were convinced in three hour long conversations that they had to comply or face trouble. 

 

The group want help from the Thai police in contacting the Cambodians and getting their money back.

 

Paweena is contacting the chief of the tech police Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittipraphat who is also an RTP deputy commander over the case. 

 

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Unfortunately with the Thai police unless they get something out of it they have no chance of getting their money back too bad really

A crafty con: I suspect the victims were truly trying to not get in trouble with the police (re the "drugs" in the box) - rather than having any thought at all of hoping to profit from the box's contents.

 

It's one's worse nightmare to have drugs planted on you.

Police too busy..............Zzzzzzzz.

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Pornthip said she personally lost 400,000 baht after she was contacted by people claiming to work for DHL who said they had a parcel containing an illegal substance connected to a man involved in a money laundering case.

 

She said she had nothing to do with such a business but was conned into parting with money to prove her innocence on the pretext of getting it back. 

Idiot.

23 hours ago, webfact said:

She said she had nothing to do with such a business but was conned into parting with money to prove her innocence on the pretext of getting it back. 

Idiot.