webfact Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diplomatico Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 "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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostmebike Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Looks like the Ukrainian version of Laurel and Hardy in the first picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jossthaifarang Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 No blurring out the faces here then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickJ Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Just Trump the Ukes.....turn em right around at the airport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickRobbo Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 No blurring out the faces here then. Or balaclavas and sunglasses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedsada3 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Crisis makes bandits more inventive and defrauded less careful... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarnicaleBob Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 On the positive side, it is good to see the Thai police were on top of these cases and were able to make arrests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micmichd Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearpolar Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingalfred Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Tighten up visa rules for these European countries plus Russia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALLSEEINGEYE Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carson2311 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIRIOS Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 ...you'd think they could dress better...no air con...??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carson2311 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 ...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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maejo Man Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweatalot Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swissbie Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Tighten up visa rules for these European countries plus Russia Russia is part of Europe.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThatGuy Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denkiblue555 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Where is the finger pointing? How can we be sure with no pointed fingers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 "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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apalink_thailand Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falang khinok Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I don't understand this scam how they manage to get people to send them money??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgordo38 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgordo38 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carson2311 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drakoanders Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaseTheBass Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jai Dee Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 One racist comment and subsequent replies have been removed from this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMuhummad Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Where is the finger pointing? How can we be sure with no pointed fingers? Such a dumb, boring, over done comment.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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