The particular Ministry of Digital, Economy and Modern society (DES) has obtained almost 32, 500 complaints about online investing scams in the first half of the year.
Pol Col Akarapol Punyopashtambha, the particular ministry’s inspector-general, said there has been a rapid rise in online trading frauds via TikTok.
Also, several online stores were discovered to have been cloned by scammers, along with fake Line accounts used for various investing and investment frauds.
Pol Col Akarapol stated that in the first 6 months of this year, 1212 OCC — the DES’s help centre — has obtained a total of thirty-one, 809 complaints.
Some twenty two, 840 concerned on-line trading, of which six, 325 have since been resolved, he or she added.
Of the total, 51. 1% involved undelivered goods and thirty-three. 7% were associated with products that proved to be materially different from the advertised pictures, Pol Col Akarapol said yesterday.