News Forum - Stop scam calls or be charged 1 million baht per day

[Thaiger]

A daily fine of one million baht has been issued by the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission for any mobile phone carrier that refuses to assist the government in tackling the growing problem of phone scammers. According to an NBTC survey, several people have already registered more than five phone numbers of phone scammer, but carriers failed to verify or check their identification. Some mobile phone scammers allegedly had up to 10,000 numbers, according to the police. Mobile phone providers must contact any customer who has more than five phone numbers and ask them to visit their local branch and […]

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[Chatogaster]

4 hours ago, Thaiger said:

Mobile phone providers must contact any customer who has more than five phone numbers and ask them to visit their local branch and provide identification.

Whose identification?

In order to identify (and then invite) a customer with 5+ numbers, those numbers must first be identifiable towards one and the same customer (and they are, since activating a number requires identification). Asking an owner to come over and visit a local branch is not to to receive their identification, but to determine if the owner is the actual user (and, if not, to identify the actual users?).

A portion of those invites will not be answered, and consequently the corresponding numbers will probably be revoked after a while. But what's supposed to happen when invitees do show up? Are the local branch workers trained in the proper application of choke holds/bags to extract the truth?

It seems that NBTC has delegated part of investigative police work towards local branch workers of telecom providers. A pay-rise is in order!