6 foreigners arrested in online investment scam
Crime Suppression Division police have arrested four Britons, a Filipino woman and a French man for having allegedly deceiving foreign investors to buy stocks online and cheated them.
Pol Maj Gen Panya Mamen, deputy Central Investigation Bureau commissioner, said the six foreigners were arrested at a house on Soi Thonglor while deceiving foreigners to invest in stock markets through Internet.
Police seized seven desktop computers, six notebook computers and 31 mobile phones from the house.
Information from the seized computers showed that they had deceived the investors to invest over Bt100 million in fake firms.
The foreigners claimed that they were hired by a man identified only as Paul for Bt30,000 to Bt50,000 a month to make phone calls.
The Nation
Not too many details yet but an international flavour to this, not just the Thais scamming away at everyone. Sounds like they've caught the idiots again though while the real perp escapes, probably paid the right guys. 30 to 50 grand a month to make phone calls, must have been fleecing many people. Wonder who grassed them up?
Foreigners arrested in big online scam
Hi Paderborn, no, it's not Hua Hin but in the news section it's a case of anywhere in Thailand and it syndicated out "elsewhere" so this section is about Thailand generally, regarding news anyhow. Think you'll find it's Bangkok etc and then I'd say the big boys did get away with it and the foot soldiers got caught. As SJ said, a boiler room that got busted.
