CHON BURI — A Norwegian man was arrested by police in Pattaya for allegedly damaging an automatic teller machine (ATM) on Saturday night. Pol Lt Kwanchai Namkanisorn, a duty officer at Muang Pattaya police station, said the suspect was Finn Helge Heggem, aged 46. Read more: Bangkok Post
Two Thai men were arrested early Thursday for allegedly using stolen credit cards of foreign tourists. Pithawat Akkarathitiwirakul, 52, and Narongrit Boonyawat, 43, were arrested in Pattaya at 1:30 am after police were alerted by the Kasikorn Bank. Read more: The Nation
PHUKET: Two Belarussians were arrested in Rawai area yesterday (December 25) after allegedly stealing B100,000 from local ATM machines. Today (December 26) Phuket Police Chief Maj Gen Pachara Boonyasit announced the arrest of the two men, Mikalai Romankou and Siarhei Bandarkou, both 35, who, he said, used phony ATM cards to make illegal cash withdrawals […]
PHUKET — Police arrested three Bulgarian men allegedly for producing and using fake ATM cards and withdrawing about 170,000 baht from victims’ accounts in Phuket province. Arrested early Saturday morning were Slavchev Tsvetozargev, 44, Nlk Valntinguenadiev, 42, and Yanev Tsvetannetorov, 42. The arrest followed complaints of about 100 victims who lost money to such fraud. […]
Police officers have arrested 2 Russian men who had been skimming information off peoples cards in Europe and withdrawing the money from ATM’s in Pattaya . They were arrested with 30 fake ATM cards. Read more: pattayadailynews.com
BANGKOK’S Ratchadaphisek Criminal Court Thursday handed a sentence of 568 years in prison to five Malaysian men for electronic card forgery. However they would serve only 50 years behind bar under the Thai criminal code’s maximum penalty. Read more: The Nation
A Russian has been arrested for allegedly installing a “skimmer” device to steal PIN numbers of cardholders who used an automatic teller machine (ATM) at a convenience store in eastern Bangkok. The new device was said to be able to deter counter-skimmer measures that commercial banks in Thailand had devised to try to combat this […]
Police have arrested two ATM skimmer suspects – a Swedish man and a Filipino man – in Chiang Mai’s Muang district along with 500 fake electronic cards. Following a tip-off by a bank about someone using fake ATM cards to withdraw cash from its machines, Swedish national Per Johan Robin Bentley, 29, and Filipino national […]
