A Nigerian man and a Thai woman have been charged with hacking the email account of a silverware firm in Chiang Mai and redirecting payments for goods ordered by customers overseas into their own bank account.

Pol Lt Gen Thanitsak Theerasawasdi, commander of the Provincial Police Region 5, said on Friday that 29-year-old Nigerian Shola Rotimi Oluwole and Miss Wannakorn Sukming, 29 from Nakhon Ratchasima province, had been arrested.

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