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Police in Phuket have arrested a woman accused of opening bank accounts for call centre scammers, defrauding victims to the tune of 1 million baht. Over the weekend, officers from the Central Investigation Bureau arrested the woman, identified only as Ms Wiparat, at a property in Chalong.

 

Wiparat is accused of opening bank accounts used for online criminal activity and fraud, and importing false information into computer systems causing other damage. The suspect has been taken to Bangkok’s Nong Khaem Police Station for legal processing.

 

The CIB was responding to several reports from victims targeted by scammers. According to victims’ testimonies, the scammers would call them, pretending to be police officers. They would claim to have made a number of arrests of drug and money laundering suspects and had seized bank accounts they believed belonged to victims.

 

By Peter Roche

Caption: PHOTO: Thai Post

 

Full story: Phuket GO 2023-11-07

 

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45 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

 The CIB have confirmed the scammers were not police officers or in any way associated with the police.

 

Funny they had to mention that

Just clearing up any potential mis-understandings

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I have a lady friend in Chiang Mai who opened a bank account for a farang friend who turned out to be a scammer. She was arrested. Not sure exactly what happened to her but when I met her she was wearing an ankle tracker and had to pay 60,000 to get it off or wear it so many years.

 

 

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