PUBLISHED: 28 Nov 2024 at 09: 48
In the northeastern state of Chiang Mai, officers carried out numerous raids and the largest call-scam equipment ever to be recovered from a Thai-Chinese gang.
Pol Lt Gen Jirabhop Bhuridej, director of the Central Investigation Bureau, told a press conference on Wednesday that authorities raided 11 rented properties in Muang, San Sai and San Kamphaeng regions of Chiang Mai on Tuesday and found 642 SIM containers, 590, 000 SIM cards, 72 servers, 1, 455 cellular phones and 47 SIM card users.
” It is the biggest assault of request scam gear in Thailand”, the director said.
During the attacks, police even arrested 15 suspects consisting of two Thais, five Chinese and eight Myanmar individuals.
One of the Thai suspects is a girl, Jirapan Prakobkit, older 30. According to Pol Lt Gen Jirabhop, her Taiwanese husband, who was at large, was the call-scam ringleader, and the girl rented the homes where the products were installed. She even paid the rent and fees for the homes ‘ utilities.
The main research chief claimed that the SIM boxes were used to make fake social media accounts that were sold to visit online criminal gangs and to avoid social media security algorithms that would treat fake accounts as real.
He quoted Ms. Jirapan, the Thai suspect who was being detained, as saying that her Taiwanese father had paid for the products and that other detained suspects had been rented out to the rented properties where the SIM boxes had been installed.