Thailand's soccer representative also suffered about 100 million won from smishing fraud
Dec 03, 2024
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The amount of damage was found to be about 100 million won.
According to Thai media, including Kaosod, on the 2nd, non-Taburi police arrested an additional woman (20) linked to a call center scam organization. The organization was found to have swindled 2.7 million baht (about 110 million won) from Poklau Anan (33), an attacking midfielder of the Thai national soccer team and playing for the professional soccer team Bangkok United.
Earlier, Poklau visited a fraudulent website to borrow 600,000 baht (about 24 million won).
The website guided several steps to implementing the loan, with 2.7 million baht in the account disappearing the moment Forklau entered personal information and more. Police investigated the financial transactions and found that his money was transferred to six borrowed-name accounts.
Police froze three of the accounts, arrested three owners of related cannon bank accounts, and arrested the fourth account holder in Soi Samakki, Nonthaburi, on the 2nd.
Suspect Chananya admitted to being involved in illegal activities and confessed to opening a cannon account earlier this year.
She was introduced to a man by a friend, who offered to give her 500 baht (about 20,000 won) to each account if she opened six bank accounts. Later, Chananya worked for a smishing scam organization.
She claimed in a police investigation that she worked with a fraudulent organization but was forced to do the job because she earned only 10,000 baht (about 400,000 won) and was unemployed at the time. Police are expanding their investigation to arrest the remaining members.
bellho@sportschosun.com