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The Thai tourist police have produced Facebook posted warning for Thai women about Romance Scams. One of the frames shows a cartoon white man who they say is handsome and rich. But towards the end the police say that he is more than likely dark skinned and after your money. Full story:
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Eleven Thais and five Taiwanese were arrested during a raid by Malaysian and Thai police on a commercial building in Kuala Lumpur used as a base by an international gang of phone-scammers. The operation followed earlier arrests during raids by Cambodian and Thai police on several call centres in Cambodia used
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CAMBODIAN and Thai police raided three places in Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville on Friday day and arrested six Taiwanese, 26 Thais and five Cambodians for allegedly being involved in a call-centre scam. The Thai side of the joint operation was led by Pol Maj-General Surachet Hakparn, deputy Tourism Police commander and
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Tourist police has arrested an 18-year old Taiwanese suspected to be a member of a call centre scamming gang while he was withdrawing cash from an ATM at a hotel in Huay Kwang district Tuesday night. The suspect, identified as Choen Fan-wei, was later escorted by police to his apartment room
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Foreign gangs behind romance scams targeting wealthy Thai women are flourishing, despite intensive efforts to crack down on the crime. Police say numerous arrests and convictions don't seem to have deterred gangs from preying on unsuspecting women. Full story: Bangkok Post WASSAYOS NGAMKHAM BANGKOK POST
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Romance scam victim Ms Nicha Kiartanaphaibul can get state compensation for the wrongful detention in prison after she was charged by the police for Call Centre scam. This was disclosed on Thursday by Mr Yongyuth Thamnitayakul, a justice official at Tak Provincial Court after Ms Nicha Kiartanaphaibul, 24, went to the
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PHUKET: Officers from the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) and Thalang Police yesterday (Dec 12) arrested two men and one woman who are said to be part of a four-member gang who conned a woman out of more than B3 million in a gambling con after pretending to be interested in
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An Indonesian and two Thais have been arrested in Bangkok and Chiang Mai over alleged phone scams. Police Commissioner General Pol Gen Chakthip Chaijinda, the national police chief, announced on Monday that Tommy Wu had been arrested at a rented house in Bangkok’s Ram Indra area, while Jirawat Klombang and Jiraphat
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