Govt Officials Arrested for Selling Data to Call Scam Gang

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK, Oct 28 (TNA) – Two government officials were arrested for allegedly selling data to a call scam gang for 600,000 baht a month.

 

Deputy national police chief Pol Gen Torsak Sukwimul said the two officials gathered data of potential victims and sold them to a call scam gang which was busted in early October.

 

In the case police arrested 16 suspects. Of them, eight suspects were hired to open bank accounts for the call scam gang of a Chinese person and two were the government officials who supplied the data of potential victims to the gang.

 

Full Story: https://tna.mcot.net/english-news-1046687

 

-- © Copyright Thai News Agency 2022-10-28

 

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[ThailandRyan]

10 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Deputy national police chief Pol Gen Torsak Sukwimul said the two officials gathered data of potential victims and sold them to a call scam gang which was busted in early October.

Say What, no way, so they use peoples information to gain wealth themselves and then allowed those who identities was stolen to suffer.  What a bunch of flicking <deleted>.  They should be executed for the misery they have caused others.  Thailand the land of scams and corruptions and yes now I am bashing Thai's.....tell me why I should not.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

33 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

two were the government officials who supplied the data of potential victims to the gang.

So two Thai government officials are arrested for selling private phone number info to scammers.... And we have here an article on the various arrests...

 

But neither of the arrested government officials are named. Why? No finger pointing photos? Just little illustrations on a computer screen.

 

How about giving those two criminals (alleged) the same lack of privacy that they gave to all the citizens whose contact info they sold to scammers.

 

[webfact]

Policeman, Official Caught Selling Information To Call Centre Gang
by TNR Staff

 

 

A POLICEMAN and a government official have been caught selling information about Thai citizens to a call centre gang and were paid 20,000 baht a day or 600,000 baht a month, Matichon newspaper said Friday (Oct. 28).

 

Deputy National Police chief Pol. Gen. Torsak Sukvimol said the two suspects were among 16 arrested in the operation entitled “Pluck the Dragon’s Wings.”

 

Eight of the suspects were hired to open money mule accounts, one collected these accounts for their Chinese boss while two of them gathered information about Thais for use in defrauding them.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2022/10/28/policeman-official-caught-selling-information-to-call-centre-gang/

 

-- © Copyright  THAI NEWSROOM 2022-10-29

 

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[ourmanflint]

Quality journalism!

[2baht]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

for their Chinese boss

Well there you have it! Corruption will not be eradicated in the next million years! ???? Khup Phom!

[mikebell]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

A POLICEMAN and a government official have been caught

RTP can't stay out of the headlines for long.

[TheFishman1]

Thia Gather data and open up accounts for their Chinese boss but no mention about going after the Chinese boss why do you think that is that he is well connected if he was paying these people for collecting data 20,000 a day can you imagine what he must pay the really big boss and you wonder how all these government officials in top cops and up with these multi million dollar cars loans of dollars and watches not to mention properties they owned the illegal nightclubs they run the prostitution they run he’ll always be the same here TIT

[RichardColeman]

They seriously need to stop the investigating of officials, if this carries on they'll run out of officials next year

[ChrisY1]

Anywhere else in the civilized world, selling the personal information of citizens, I'm assuming bank details, card numbers, addresses etc, is a criminal offense with large fines. and gaol time. Let's see what happens here....if we hear any more!

No doubt that this has been ongoing for a long time and not just a one off incident....and it will continue!

 

[sammieuk1]

With the worst vinyl board line up in history we can deduce police have found 2 minions 1 Chimney sweep postman Pat and 7 green cards that are now in custody ????

[Cake Monster]

14 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

So two Thai government officials are arrested for selling private phone number info to scammers.... And we have here an article on the various arrests...

 

But neither of the arrested government officials are named. Why? No finger pointing photos? Just little illustrations on a computer screen.

 

How about giving those two criminals (alleged) the same lack of privacy that they gave to all the citizens whose contact info they sold to scammers.

 

Didn't I read in another source of News from out of BKK, that there was also a Police Lt Colonel involved in this scam as well.

If I am correct, this small fact seems to have been omitted from this News source.

Cant think why !

 

[The Alien]

This investigation team should focus on bank tellers/officials too.

It’s open secret how scammers know and targeting victims with fat bank accounts in many cases?  

[Purdey]

The scammers and data sellers need to have their photos on tv and in newspapers so people know who to be careful of. 

 

[smedly]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Policeman, Official Caught Selling Information To Call Centre Gang

this is how these call centers operate, they are mostly based in India, they have insiders at companies like amazon/ebay/netflix etc, having someones details allows them to be quite convincing, backed up with bogus websites, it is shocking how vulnerable/stupid some people are

[Tich]

I hope these scumbags get some serious jail time

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

In the case police arrested 16 suspects. Of them, eight suspects were hired to open bank accounts for the call scam gang of a Chinese person and two were the government officials who supplied the data of potential victims to the gang.

Government officials at it again.. are there any good ones I wonder?

[hotchilli]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

A POLICEMAN and a government official have been caught selling information about Thai citizens to a call centre gang and were paid 20,000 baht a day or 600,000 baht a month,

Sickening... but if they can pay the bent officials that much per month how much were the scammers raking in?

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, ourmanflint said:

Quality journalism!

Quality police... NOT

[mikeymike100]

4 hours ago, mikebell said:

RTP can't stay out of the headlines for long.

Yes, this is the third story in 2 days showing corruption between the RTP and some Chinese people!

Is this just the tip of the iceberg?

[IAMHERE]

5 hours ago, Tich said:

I hope these scumbags get some serious jail time

I wouldn't bet on that happening.

[Mac Mickmanus]

I did have concerns about providing my personal details on the immigration website when applying for a visa , my bank details and things .

   Nice to see that I am not paranoid 

[CharlieH]

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[Rimmer]

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[LEXUS 400]

If I have to write in English , i have to forget to cmment in these Forum !!. English comments come to me in " NORWEGIAN " , but my be Asian have no translator ??????.

[Puccini]

35 minutes ago, LEXUS 400 said:

English comments come to me in " NORWEGIAN " , but my be Asian have no translator ??????.

Your post is displayed in English on my Android phone with Chrome browser.

 

If you say what device and browser you are using, perhaps someone can help you diagnose what mau may have gone wrong with your configuration. 

[SoilSpoil]

Immigration has a lot of personal information on us, including bank account details, photos of family members, passport details, etc... Very risky

[jacko45k]

2 minutes ago, SoilSpoil said:

Immigration has a lot of personal information on us, including bank account details, photos of family members, passport details, etc... Very risky

Yes, and utility bill details, email, and we have all received a 90 day report with someone's passport copy on the back! Nobody there has a concept of our privacy. 

[lujanit]

 

On 10/29/2022 at 3:05 AM, webfact said:

A POLICEMAN and a government official have been caught selling information about Thai citizens to a call centre gang and were paid 20,000 baht a day or 600,000 baht a month

There is a channel on YT called Scammer Payback (He goes by the name of Pierogi, a polish dumpling).  No one knows what his real name is.  He goes after scammers mainly in India.  His day time job is in cyber security so he knows what he is doing.  More often than not he stops gullible people being scammed.  Well worth a watch.  There are several more channels on YT which go after scammers.

 

Some of these call centres are very well funded and buy names and identity information by the thousand from people within large organizations or from the dark web.  Most of the victims are elderly people which is despicable.  Just outright theft.  The people who scam should be thrown in jail for a long time after their names and photos have been publicly and widely displayed.  No blurring out faces.

[foreverlomsak]

Anybody else notice a trend, scammers working for a Chinese person, RTP raid an unlicensed night club selling alcohol out of hours and in which drugs were being taken is owned by a Chinese person, at least one Thai political party has received "donations" from a Chinese person.

A takeover by the Chinese??????