Two suspects in Chinese call center gang fraud arrested

 

Source: Thairath

 

BANGKOK: -- Crime Suppression Division (CSD) police yesterday arrested two people working for a Chinese call center gang.

 

Losses in the fraud sustained by Thai bank customers are thought to be 10 million baht.

 

Arrested yesterday at an ATM in Rachada-Huay Khwang was 29 year old Chiang Rai native Chaichana Sae-wong. Later the CSD arrested a female, 39 year old Jongping Sae-Jerng in Ramkhamhaeng Soi 24, reported Thai Rath.

 

The two were members of a gang that called bank customers of SCB claiming to be employees of the state. The customers were advised there was criminal activity associated with their accounts and to avoid investigation they should transfer the money to another SCB account.

 

Some 35 people fell for this ruse resulting in losses of 10 million baht.

 

Rather than return the money via internet transfer as promised it was siphoned off by Chaichana who went to ATMs withdrawing 5,000 baht at a time. Jongping had been responsible for opening accounts for the main people in the fraud.

 

Police are expanding the operation to try to catch the ringleaders of the operation who are still at large.

 

Those arrested yesterday were charged with fraud and detained.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

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The question is how people still can fall for these scams. Today everybody must know that a bank never calls their customers and advise them to put money in a specific account.
All things that has to do with this is taken care of personally inside a bank office.

Anyway, good that they got them, and I hope that they throw the trash og human beings as far away from this country as possible, or put them in a cell and throw away the key.

When you target people with little education this is what happens. I seem to remember some 50 years ago in the UK people were falling for similar scams. 

gullible! !