BANGKOK, Oct 6 – Thai police arrested members of a call centre gang for their sham deceiving numbers of Chinese and Taiwanese nationals to transfer money totalling over Bt2 billion (US$66 million).

Using Thailand as a base, the gang members, comprising 23 Chinese, Taiwanese, Burmese and Thai, were apprehended with telephone equipment connecting to the internet, mobile phones and computers.

The call centre gang used the tools via the Voice over Internet Protocol system (VoIP) calling the victims and telling them that illegal funds had been transferred to their accounts and asked them to transfer the money to another account given to them by the call centre sham.

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