Call centre cheats and skimmers rounded up in Chiang Mai

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Call centre cheats and skimmers rounded up in Chiang Mai

Image: video screenshot

CHIANG MAI: -- A large foreign gang of call centre fraudsters and a group of Ukrainian skimmers were rounded up in Chiang Mai in two separate cases yesterday.

In the first case14 Malaysians and a Vietnamese who had set up a call centre in a house in San Sai district were paraded for the press. The gang comprising both men and women were posing as employees of a Malaysian bank tricking their compatriots out of money. They told their "customers" there was a problem with their credit cards and persuaded them to send money to an account. The account is owned by a 'Mr Big' behind the scenes who would give the gang a percentage for their trouble.The ringleader is believed to be abroad.



They had netted 500,000 ringgit or 4 million baht in the last 14 days. They were charged with theft as well as immigration offences and working without permits. A large amount of phones. communications equipment and ledgers of those that had been duped were taken into evidence. They were operating out of a rented house.

In a separate case three Ukrainian skimmers have been arrested. Police claim that the gang have been responsible for up to 70 million baht in theft. Victims are mainly believed to reside in the European Union and other parts of Asia.

Source: Daily News, Facebook

-- 2016-06-16

[Diplomatico]

"They were charged with theft as well as immigration offences and working without permits."

That's pretty funny - they need work permits to be criminals.

[lostmebike]

Looks like the Ukrainian version of Laurel and Hardy in the first picture.

[jossthaifarang]

No blurring out the faces here then.

[NickJ]

Just Trump the Ukes.....turn em right around at the airport.

[MickRobbo]

No blurring out the faces here then.

Or balaclavas and sunglasses

[Jedsada3]

Crisis makes bandits more inventive and defrauded less careful...

[BarnicaleBob]

On the positive side, it is good to see the Thai police were on top of these cases and were able to make arrests.

[micmichd]

Call centre cheats and skimmers rounded up in Chiang Mai

Image: video screenshot

CHIANG MAI: -- A large foreign gang of call centre fraudsters and a group of Ukrainian skimmers were rounded up in Chiang Mai in two separate cases yesterday.

In the first case14 Malaysians and a Vietnamese who had set up a call centre in a house in San Sai district were paraded for the press. The gang comprising both men and women were posing as employees of a Malaysian bank tricking their compatriots out of money. They told their "customers" there was a problem with their credit cards and persuaded them to send money to an account. The account is owned by a 'Mr Big' behind the scenes who would give the gang a percentage for their trouble.The ringleader is believed to be abroad.

They had netted 500,000 ringgit or 4 million baht in the last 14 days. They were charged with theft as well as immigration offences and working without permits. A large amount of phones. communications equipment and ledgers of those that had been duped were taken into evidence. They were operating out of a rented house.

In a separate case three Ukrainian skimmers have been arrested. Police claim that the gang have been responsible for up to 70 million baht in theft. Victims are mainly believed to reside in the European Union and other parts of Asia.

Source: Daily News, Facebook

-- 2016-06-16

[bearpolar]

The saddest part: these morons managed to make 4million baht and didnt even know that if they had used online services for phoning, nobody would have caught them..

Edited June 16, 2016 by bearpolar

[kingalfred]

Tighten up visa rules for these European countries plus Russia

[ALLSEEINGEYE]

Just Trump the Ukes.....turn em right around at the airport.

Trump the Ukes?

This sounds more like one of Trump's scams similar to Trump university.

Maybe Trump should also be Trumped!!

[Carson2311]

Just nice to see some good work being done by the RTP. Actually it has been changing much lately. After another 100 year work will float perfect.

[SOTIRIOS]

...you'd think they could dress better...no air con...???

[Carson2311]

...you'd think they could dress better...no air con...???

No..no! The clothes was evidence, bought with the dirty money. Just had to dress the way they entered the country.

[Maejo Man]

Sadly one of the largest call centers is sill operating with impunity along the canal road. They "employ" some 30 Europeans, including French, German. Italian, Spanish and English. Hopefully their time will come soon, as these people peddle misery and financial hardship. Nothing but a bunch of low thieves.

[sweatalot]

Sadly one of the largest call centers is sill operating with impunity along the canal road. They "employ" some 30 Europeans, including French, German. Italian, Spanish and English. Hopefully their time will come soon, as these people peddle misery and financial hardship. Nothing but a bunch of low thieves.

Can you give more details?

[swissbie]

Tighten up visa rules for these European countries plus Russia

Russia is part of Europe..

[NotThatGuy]

Tighten up visa rules for these European countries plus Russia

Russia is part of Europe..

Shhhhhh don't wake him up.

BTW Alfie... Vietnam and Malay are Europe too. Just don't get that wrong.

Hang in there homie hang in there help is coming.

[denkiblue555]

Where is the finger pointing?

How can we be sure with no pointed fingers?

[Garry]

"They were charged with theft as well as immigration offences and working without permits."

That's pretty funny - they need work permits to be criminals.

I think the term used, would be 'throwing the book at them'. Law book that is and nail them with every valid law they've broken

[apalink_thailand]

Sadly one of the largest call centers is sill operating with impunity along the canal road. They "employ" some 30 Europeans, including French, German. Italian, Spanish and English. Hopefully their time will come soon, as these people peddle misery and financial hardship. Nothing but a bunch of low thieves.

They've been paying their monthly bills I guess. ;-)

[falang khinok]

I don't understand this scam how they manage to get people to send them money???

[elgordo38]

Sadly one of the largest call centers is sill operating with impunity along the canal road. They "employ" some 30 Europeans, including French, German. Italian, Spanish and English. Hopefully their time will come soon, as these people peddle misery and financial hardship. Nothing but a bunch of low thieves.

They bought the right kind of insurance no doubt. You know work permits wink wink

[elgordo38]

Where is the finger pointing?

How can we be sure with no pointed fingers?

In these tight group shots its hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys well except for the finger pointing. These "publicity" shots are becoming more common lately.

[Carson2311]

Please help me little bit here. In this forum there is always a lot of talk about finger pointing, and wherew the pointed fingers are.

There is also a lot of you asking about that, who also want to talk about everything that is wrong in Thailand which means that you want the people working to behave professional.

Maby you people should start concentrating on the matter at hand, and not if fingers are pointed or not. It´s simply pointless!

Edited June 16, 2016 by Carson2311

[drakoanders]

If Russia Malaysia Vietnam were in Europe I could go there for as long as I want no visas. Now we need Thailand Philippines USA Australia Japan China new Zealand to become European then the world is my oyster haha

[JaseTheBass]

I don't understand this scam how they manage to get people to send them money???

Some people are pretty dim and will trust anyone, hence a lot of the boiler room operations target Australians.

[Jai Dee]

One racist comment and subsequent replies have been removed from this thread.

[MadMuhummad]

Where is the finger pointing?

How can we be sure with no pointed fingers?

Such a dumb, boring, over done comment....