Cyber ??police arrest woman with mule account, part of network that swindled businessmen out of 3.7 million baht, claiming to apply to be an admin for a gambling website, but was tricked into scanning her face on the Poipet side, and she resisted until she was electrocuted and injured.
Following the victim, an elderly businessman, who believed the perpetrator who created a fake page to trick people into transferring money to invest in stocks, claiming that there were professional investors who would give advice, and also created credibility by opening two corporate accounts under the name of a limited company and two partnership accounts, which the victim believed and transferred money 9 times within a period of 1 month, totaling over 3.7 million baht in damages.
Later, Pol. Lt. Gen. Worawat Wattanakornbancha, Commander of the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD), ordered police officers under his supervision to investigate and collect evidence to request an arrest warrant from the court for severa
l members of the gang. Last night (August 22), Pol. Maj. Gen. Chatchapanthakarn Klaiklueng, Commander of the TCSD Division 1, assigned Pol. Col. Phichienyot Arunphanthakun, Superintendent of the TCSD Division 1, to lead a force to arrest one of the suspects who had an arrest warrant issued for him. It was learned that he had fled and was hiding in Chonburi Province.
Police officers therefore jointly arrested Ms. Nuphaporn, 27 years old, from Trang Province, under the Criminal Court’s arrest warrant No. 3788/2567 dated August 14, 2567 on charges of ‘jointly defrauding the public by impersonating another person, jointly deceiving or deceiving to enter distorted or forged computer data, whether in whole or in part, or false computer data in a manner likely to cause damage to the public.’ She was arrested in front of an apartment in Sri Racha District, Chonburi Province, and taken for legal proceedings.
From questioning the arrested person, he claimed that at the end of December 2023, he was unemployed, so he s
earched for work on Facebook pages and Chonburi job search groups. Later, a Facebook account sent him a chat offering him a job as an admin for an online gambling website, asking him to work in Poipet, Cambodia, so he agreed.
Later, the employer had me open 4 bank accounts, 1 bank per account, and took me by car from Chonburi to Rong Kluea Market, Aranyaprathet District, Sa Kaeo Province. Then, a Cambodian man took me across the border through a natural passage, and a motorcycle picked me up and took me to the blue door of a 3-story building in Cambodia. When I went inside, I found 13 Thais locked in a room. I was forced to stay in the room, scanning my face to transfer money to other bank accounts. I was allowed to eat only 2 meals a day, and the Chinese man was my supervisor. There were more than 10 computers in my office, but I didn’t know what they were used for.
Later, I could not stand it anymore because I did not receive any salary or wages, and I was forced to stay in the room and eat only a little
food. I started to resist and resist the supervisor. In the end, the supervisor used an electric shock device to shock me until I was injured. After about 2 weeks, I tried to ask for help from the Thai Embassy via Facebook. And 1 week later, I and 13 other detained Thais were released. I was made to walk across the border, a distance of more than 3 kilometers, to return to Thailand at Rong Kluea Market until I was finally arrested. The investigation team is investigating and expanding the results.
Source: Thai News Agency