CHIANG MAI – At least ten students from Chiang Mai University (CMU) fell victim to sophisticated call centre scams in just one day, with losses amounting to millions of baht. The surge in fraud cases during the recent long holiday (May 31–June 2) has prompted urgent warnings from both the university and local law enforcement. […]
The local-level Thai Myanmar border committee has tentatively agreed that 500 trafficked foreigners, of the about 2,000 who have expressed their wishes to return to their home countries, will be sent into Thailand, starting on Monday. Myanmar Prepares to Repatriate 7,000 Call Center Scam Victims The committee met yesterday at the headquarters of the Ratchamanu […]
At 4:00 PM on February 14th, 2025, Thai Immigration Police deported 10 Chinese nationals linked to a call center scam operating in Myawaddy, Myanmar. Missing Chinese actor Xingxing found near Thailand-Myanmar border The suspects, involved in defrauding Chinese actor Wang Xing (also known as Xingxing), were handed over to Chinese authorities for prosecution. Thai authorities […]
BANGKOK, Feb 13 (TNA) – Myanmar is preparing to repatriate an additional 7,000 victims of call center scams, according to Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai. Thailand receives 260 foreigners rescued from Myanmar scam gangs Phumtham said on Wednesday that 261 individuals, tricked into working for call center gangs in Myanmar, had been […]
Thai police are tracing the source of a viral video showing what is believed to be an employee of a call centre based in a border town in Myanmar being brutally assaulted by a gang. Thai Police Dismantle Major Chinese Call Center Gang in Nakhon Si Thammarat The video, released by the Drama-addict Facebook page, […]
Thai police have arrested six Chinese nationals and seized 100 computers, 286 SIM boxes and 300,000 SIM cards in a crackdown on a Chinese-run call centre gang, operating from a condominium in the Rama 9 area of Bangkok. Chinese-run call centre uses SIP trunk solution to dupe potential victims Officers from the Immigration Bureau, the […]
Thai cybercrime suppression officers have arrested nine Thais and one Myanmar citizen, alleged to be members of a Chinese-run call centre gang which made over 700 million fake phone calls in the first six months of this year and sent one million fake online messages in just three days to their potential victims using Session […]
On November 11th, 2024, Thai cyber crime investigation officers announced the successful takedown of a major Chinese-led call center gang operating in Nakhon Si Thammarat. Thai police rescue Chinese woman from a gang run by a Chinese call center The crackdown followed a large-scale raid on March 29th, 2024, involving over 100 officers targeting four […]
