Pol Maj Gen Surachet Hakpan, acting deputy chief of the Tourism Police Bureau, (right) inspects evidence seized from foreign call centre scammers at one of the seven locations in Nonthaburi and Bangkok on Monday night. (Photo taken from @RTPspokesmen Facebook page)Eleven suspects - Taiwanese, Chinese and Thais - involved in a call centre scam enticing people into paying money into their accounts have been arrested in police raids on seven locations in Bangkok and Nonthaburi. Police from several different units raided the premises on Monday night, acting on information that foreign phone scammers had been staying there. The Taiwanese and Chinese had entered the country as tourists and then used it as a base for their nefarious activities. Thai media reported the three Thai suspects, all men, caught during the raids were employed to take care of the foreign scammers and were each paid 30,000 baht a month.

Source: Bangkok Post November 14, 2017 05:15 UTC