An 82-year-old grandmother was tricked by a call center gang and lost nearly 3 million.

Bangkok,82-year-old grandmother, retired civil servant. Was deceived by a call center gang pretending to be a postal employee - AMLO officials were tricked into losing nearly 3 million baht. I was so stressed that I thought short. Write a suicide note

Today, son and grandmother Came to give a statement to the investigating officer. Thung Maha Mek Police Station Grandma's son said the incident started on September 14th. The call center group Call to see your mother. and claiming to be a police officer at Phuket Police Station Notified that someone is impersonating your mother's name. and sent the package to the Phuket Post Office and claimed it was a suspicious package. Will ask for permission to open and view the contents inside. and mother allowed Later, the call center claimed that the package was inside the package. Found 12 passports of Burmese citizens and 9 ATM cards, which were examined and found to be linked to human trafficking and money laundering. which requires legal action against the mother Mother then became afraid. But he told the call center gang that There is no banking application. So the call center gang told them to open it. and mother transferred all the money that was in the account for the call center gang to show sincerity which the call center gang has instructed the mother that Don't tell anyone about this.

On October 12, the mother called to borrow money from her grandchild. (My son) saying that he would use the money to pay the wages of two workers. Both he and his son were surprised. So I went to check my mother's account. It was found that a total of more than 2 million baht was not left in the account. In total, money was transferred 20 times to 13 destination accounts, totaling more than 2.58 million baht. When his mother learned that Was tricked by a gang of criminals into transferring money. Mother is very stressed. Until writing a suicide note dated the 18th, later the mother took more than 40 sleeping pills but still did not die.

At this time, the Thung Maha Mek Police Station The mother is being further questioned. As for the destination account that your mother transferred money to, The police said they had already seized it. and the names of these account owners are known But the police have not yet revealed information about whether the money in the account is still there or not. – Thai News Agency

Source: Thai News Agency