News Forum - Dozens of call centre scammers caught in Thai-Cambodia net

[Thaiger]

Dozens of Thai scammers have been arrested and illegal call centres shut down after a sophisticated months’ long Thai-Cambodian law enforcement operation closed the net on their fraudulent activity. According to different reports, numbers between 15 to 89 Thai scammers took part in a number of illegal activities in Cambodia to extort money by false means in everything from romance cons, DHL scams, and even impersonating a police officer. The Police Cyber Taskforce (PCT) reported that the Thai criminals will be extradited to Thailand after they are prosecuted for immigration offenses. The law enforcement operation began tracking the illegal activities […]

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[riclag]

So who gets the spoils of the victims,  “ if recovered “ at all? 

[Giltee]

Many of the scammers working at these call centres were southeast Asians duped into working for the gangs who are allegedly funded by a wider Chinese-run transnational crime syndicate.

Once again the Chinese are at the heart of it. Perhaps they should’ve kept quiet about it and gone after the Chinese ring. Now they’ll be long gone. 

[palooka]

42 minutes ago, Giltee said:

Many of the scammers working at these call centres were southeast Asians duped into working for the gangs who are allegedly funded by a wider Chinese-run transnational crime syndicate.

Once again the Chinese are at the heart of it. Perhaps they should’ve kept quiet about it and gone after the Chinese ring. Now they’ll be long gone. 

They Chinese bosses paid already, the workers are the scape goats. Be up and running again in a week.

[Leo]

"Call center scam" story --> "Chinese-run transnational crime syndicate".

[perceblue]

These scam call centre calls are now out of control.

My wife receives several of these calls every day, claiming to be DHL, the Post Office or bank and so on.