Fifteen Japanese men are arrested on March 29 during a police crackdown on a phone scam in Bang Lamung district of Chon Buri near Pattaya on March 29. (Photo by Chaiyot Phupattanapong)TOKYO: Japanese police dispatched investigators to Thailand on Tuesday over a phone scam in which more than 200 people in Japan are believed to have been swindled out of some 200 million yen (about 57 million baht). Thai police also confiscated some 50 IP phones in the house search. The suspects are believed to have called people saying they had failed to pay subscription fees for a website, and made them purchase electronic money to swindle them out of the cash. Japanese police plan to arrest the 15 suspects after they are expelled from Thailand, the investigators said.

Source: Bangkok Post April 16, 2019 04:59 UTC