BANGKOK, Oct 18 (TNA) – About 40,000 people have lost altogether about 10 million baht to automatic and fraudulent withdrawals, according to the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau. Pol Lt Gen Kornchai Khlaikhlueng, commissioner of the bureau, said withdrawals from bank and credit card accounts without the consent of account owners resulted from three causes. Full […]
Two foreign men have been arrested for allegedly using fake electronic cards to withdraw money from bank accounts belonging to people in Bangkok and Hua Hin. Investigators from the Immigration Bureau arrested Iacob Corne, 39, of Romania, and Gim Teck We, 33, of Malaysian national, at a hotel in Hua Hin, the beach resort town […]
Bangkok Bank’s (BBL) electronic system crashed on Wednesday due mainly a flurry of small-ticket transactions. The bank detected a failure across its electronic systems, ranging from automatic teller machines (ATMs) to internet and mobile banking. It was attempting to fix the problem and update uncompleted-transactions, said the bank’s executive vice- president Thaweelarp Rittapirom. Full story: […]
BANGKOK, Sept 18 (TNA) — The Bank of Thailand (BoT) urges users of magnetic ATM cards to replace them with chip cards because their old cards will be unusable after Jan 15 next year. BoT assistant governor Siritida Panomwon Na Ayudhya said the central bank and financial institutions were replacing magnetic cards with chip cards […]
Suspected insurgents blew up three Automatic Teller Machines in two districts in the deep South province of Pattani and escaped with banknotes from one of the ATMs. Local police suspected insurgents were responsible for the bombings, but they are still looking into whether the incidents were related to Friday’s series of bomb attacks in Bangkok. […]
CHANTHABURI: A small bomb was detonated at an ATM in Khlung district about 2am on Wednesday, but the cashbox remained intact and the two would-be robbers fled empty handed. The explosion occurred as an ATM in front of I Mang Credit Union Cooperative on Sueng Patana Sai 5 Road in tambon Sueng. Full story: Bangkok […]
Pattaya police have arrested two Uzbekistan women for allegedly stealing Bt21,000 in cash, a smartphone and an ATM card from a Pakistani man. Pattaya police chief Pol Col Apichai Krobphet held a press conference at the police station on Thursday to announce the arrest of Akhmadiva Nargiza, 29, and Sidikova Nasiba, 43. Full story: The […]
UTHAI THANI, 10th December 2018 (NNT) – Residents of Uthai Thani are feeling the benefit of the government’s 500 baht cash handout to low-income citizens. The handouts were transferred into the e-money wallets of over 11.4 million holders of the government’s welfare cards. Transfers were rolled out between December 8th and 10th. People were seen […]
