PUBLISHED: 3 Feb 2025 at 04: 30
Tak: Security forces detained a man and seized a sizable number of computers, mobile devices, and SIM accounts related to call-center scammers in the northern county of Mae Ramat.
On Saturday, a combined group of men from the Ratchamanu Task Force, border police officers, and operational authorities established checkpoints in the Thai-Myanmar frontier areas of tambon Mae Ramat.
They stopped a Toyota pickup truck for a research and found 1, 251 mobile phones, 274 SIM cards and 19 laptops in. The driver, who was only identified by Tid, 45, claimed to have been paid 5,000 baht to pick up the items from a place by the Moei River in the district’s Bann Nam Dib Bon War community.
In the Sa Kaeo area, a border province with Cambodia, he was supposed to deliver them via a personal parcel delivery service to a person by the name Pawalee in the Watthana Nakhon area.
Col Natthakorn Ruantip, captain of the Ratchamanu Task Force supervising five of nine towns in Tak, said questions indicated the seized electronics belonged to a call-centre system based in Myawaddy, Myanmar, same Tak’s Mae Sot area.
According to Col Natthakorn,” They wanted to move their operation to the Vietnamese side, reverse Sa Kaeo.” The research is advancing toward finding additional suspects who might be involved.
Tid was taken to the Mae Ramat police stop for more interrogation.