Khlong Luang: Police raided to help a third-year female student who was tricked by a call center gang into transferring almost 1.5 million baht, and even made a video call challenging the police. The moment when the Khlong Luang Police Station officers rushed in to help a third-year female student from a university who was deceived by a call center gang. They used a trick by claiming to be a mobile phone service provider and informed her that the student's SIM card was illegal. The call center gang then claimed to be police from Patong Police Station, Phuket Province, and tricked the student into transferring more than 1.49 million baht and told her to go into hiding. They claimed that the people who used the student's account already knew where she was and were going to hurt her. This caused the student to become scared and fled to rent a dormitory to hide until the officers were able to track her down and help her.
According to Thai News Agency, while the police officers were helping the student, the call center gang was still on a video call, trying to deceive and threaten the victim, and even verbally abusing the police. Reporters traveled to Khlong Luang Police Station to inquire about the facts with Pol. Col. Kiatsak Mitprasat, Superintendent of Khlong Luang Police Station, who said that last night at around 2 a.m., the student's parents reported that their child had been deceived by a call center gang. The investigation team of Khlong Luang Police Station continued to follow up until 10 a.m., when they found the student safely in the dormitory. They confirmed that there was no detention in this case, but that the student had been deceived by the call center gang, who claimed that the people who used the student's account already knew where the student was and would come to hurt her, which made the student afraid.
At the same time, the call center gang also called the student's parents to threaten them that they would hurt the student and asked them to transfer 300,000 baht before releasing the student. However, the student's parents were with the police, so they did not transfer any money to the call center gang. The police have recently frozen all five accounts to which the victims transferred money, and will also urgently investigate the origin of the four SIM cards used to make the fraudulent calls.