web DeskA young student was tricked by a call center gang claiming to be Mae Sai police, tricking him into transferring money, losing almost 300,000 baht. They even tricked him into recording a video of himself being kidnapped and sending it to his parents, demanding another 1 million baht before the police rushed in to help.
Sakon Nakhon Provincial Police received a report from a parent who traveled from Prachin Buri Province to seek help after their son, a 19-year-old first-year student at a university in Sakon Nakhon Province, disappeared from his residence and could not be contacted. They feared that their son might be in danger.
The police investigation team went to the area to check the CCTV cameras and found that there was no kidnapping. The student rode his bicycle out of the accommodation by himself and then called a taxi to take him to a hotel in Sakon Nakhon Municipality on August 20. The officers went to help and found the student alone in the room before taking him to meet his parents. As soon as they
saw each other, the student hugged his mother and cried in grief. The parents tried to calm their son down, saying that their son had done nothing wrong.
From questioning the victim, it was stated that the reason she disappeared from her room in such a dramatic way was that on August 18, the victim was called by a call center gang claiming to be a police officer at Mae Sai Police Station, accusing her of using her ID card to open a bank account related to drugs and money laundering. Because she was afraid and threatened not to tell anyone, the call center gang had her transfer money to check her financial trail.
At first the victim had no money so she called her parents to tell them that she needed money to buy school supplies. The parents then transferred money to her. The victim then transferred money to the call center gang, 5 accounts, 5 times, totaling 271,042 baht. Later the call center gang also forced the victim to go to a room and film a clip of herself and send it to her parents, saying that she h
ad been kidnapped and that she had to transfer 1 million baht to the call center gang in exchange for her release.
There is also an audio clip of the victim’s father talking on the phone with the call center gang, which appears to be threatening and forcing him to transfer 1 million baht. If he doesn’t transfer the money, they will send their son to sell his organs in Malaysia. While the victim’s father tried to negotiate and see his son first to see if he is safe, in the end the victim’s parents thought that their son would be harmed, so they traveled to Sakon Nakhon Province to ask the authorities for help, which was successfully helped on August 20, and it was discovered that the call center gang had used all of the tricks to deceive them.
Pol. Col. Krisakorn Chuasing, Superintendent of Khammin Police Station, Mueang District, Sakon Nakhon Province, stated that he admitted that this call center gang is skilled and can force children to take pictures of themselves being abused in order to send them to tri
ck their parents into giving them money. As for the investigation, they will investigate the financial trail used by the criminals to commit the crime. He also warned the public that there are all kinds of scams from call center gangs. If you encounter any of these scams, tell someone close to you or your parents immediately. Do not believe them at all.
Source: Thai News Agency
