Authorities are acting after a teen commits suicide.
PUBLISHED: 19 October 2023 at 4:00 p.m.
A 19-year-old student who was tricked into paying for an iPhone 13 that she never received is thought to have committed suicide by hanging, according to the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau( CCIB ), which is getting ready to file an arrest warrant.
The Mathayom 6( Grade 12 ) student had contacted” Hannah” mobile phone shop online via Facebook to say she wanted to buy a phone, according to an investigation by the police.
However, investigations revealed that the store was false, and the website provided a fictitious target for the alleged store in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai area.
The woman, who resided in the southwestern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat, was tricked into purchasing an iPhone 13 and forced to make a downpayment and make installment payments for various expenses.
The woman ultimately gave the group 18, 500 ringgit. The funds were then reportedly wired to the ghost buy using a Dokkaew Kaewejerm bank account. Since then, it has been frozen. Additionally, the victim was duped into transferring an additional 2, 000 baht as a” guarantee” payment.
Police claimed that after sending the final payment and discovering no telephone was being delivered, the girl realized she had been duped. She attempted to contact the merchant via a Line talk group in vain but was unsuccessful because the gang had previously blocked her.
She was so stressed out that she hanged herself at her house on Monday out of fear that her family had criticize her for borrowing money to spend money on a system they couldn’t afford.
After the defendant’s parents complained to the police digitally on Tuesday, CCIB key Pol Lt Gen Worawat Watnakhonbancha announced yesterday that Koh Thuad police had turned over the situation to them.
According to Pol Lt Gen Worawat, Cyber Crime Investigation Division 5 ( CCID5) is tracking the girl’s remittances to the vendor as well as the Facebook page and IP address of the fake store. Within two weeks, authorities anticipate that the suspects may be apprehended. To challenge arrest warrants, information has already been gathered.
The mob operated four pony bank accounts, according to Pol Maj Gen Charin Kopatta, commander of CCID5.
According to police, the woman’s cash payments were kept in Chiang Rai and would have been delivered to a lender in the border town of Tachileik, Myanmar.