Cybercrime task force officers, in Si Racha district of Chon Buri, arrested a Chiang Rai man on Tuesday. The individual is alleged to be the right-hand man of a Chinese call centre scam gang leader in Cambodia’s Koh Kong province.
The suspect, identified as Surachai Sae Jang, a native of the Mae Fah Luang district in Chiang Rai, was charged with defrauding the public, criminal association and money laundering.
Surachai reportedly told officers that he went to Cambodia two years ago to work as a Thai-Chinese interpreter but, upon arrival in Cambodia, he was taken to Koh Kong province to help his Chinese boss to communicate with other Thai staff working at a call centre, who were luring Thai customers to invest in crypto currency with promises of high returns.
He claimed that he later escaped back to Thailand.
Police said that they had obtained information from a Thai national, who was persuaded to work in the same call centre, that the call centre gang would create false social media profiles for their staff, as handsome men or attractive women, to tempt other netizens to add them as friends.
Then they would befriend their potential prey and convince them to invest in digital currency trading, said the police, adding that the scam gang also created platforms through which their potential prey could access their financial statements, which were fake, to convince them to invest.
