“Chai Chana” reveals daughter was scammed out of 600,000 by call center, urges PM to fix

"Chaichana", Chairman of the Police Committee, revealed that his daughter was deceived by someone claiming to be a DSI person, who made a video call and extorted 600,000 baht. He condemned the despicable behavior and urged the National Police Chief and the Prime Minister to solve the call center problem. Mr. Chaichana Dechacho, Deputy Leader of the Democrat Party, spoke about the case of his eldest daughter, who is studying at Chulalongkorn University, being extorted for more than 600,000 baht by a call center gang. He said that there was a person who pretended to be Pol. Lt. Col. Adisak Sonbua, an officer of the Department of Special Investigation, who called his daughter to inform her that she had a lawsuit and not to tell her parents or relatives about this matter. He also said that there was a way to help by transferring money to help with the case and to talk through the Line application. The daughter transferred the first 56,000 baht at around 8:00 a.m. After that, there was a video call. The other p arty was dressed as a police officer, claiming to be a government official, and told her about the legal case. After that, she was asked to transfer the second money. The daughter called her and told her that she had to pay the tuition. She asked her daughter to send her the tuition payment receipt because the truth was that she had to pay in January. However, since her daughter was a diligent student and had no bad financial history, she transferred the tuition payment to her daughter. After that, her daughter transferred the next money to the call center gang through a mule account, 100,000 baht, 2 times, 100,000 baht each time, totaling 200,000 baht. After the call center gang had tricked her out of money 3 times, they convinced her to go back to her home province to earn money or else her father and relatives would lose their reputation. They would blackmail her with the video call photos. The daughter then traveled back to Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, got the money from her grandmother, and transferred another 393,000 baht to the call center gang, totaling 650,000 baht. The actions of the call center gang against children who are children of public figures in society and use threatening language to these students that if they do not do as their parents say, their reputation will be ruined and they will send the photos to the university, causing the children to be afraid. After the incident, the daughter called me and told me what happened. I had my daughter file a complaint at Nakhon Si Thammarat City Police Station. Mr. Chaichana said that this incident occurs frequently in Thai society. In fact, today the government or the Royal Thai Police must suppress these matters decisively. He is still lucky that he did not deceive his daughter into being prosecuted and then detained like others have been. Because at present, this kind of incident still occurs. It must be admitted that many children do not realize the consequences and do not know about the process of this type of action. Therefore, they are often deceived in this way. At the same time, during the interview, Mr. Chaichana revealed evidence of the conversation between his daughter and the call center gang via the Line application, which contained constant reports of his daughter's movements and threats. He was still lucky that his daughter decided to tell him and file a complaint. If we are not serious about solving these issues, I do not know how many more Thai people will have to sacrifice themselves with this kind of issue. My daughter has already handed over the three mule accounts to the police to check the financial trail to see where the money trail went after the transfer. These mule accounts must also be held responsible because they received over 600,000 baht and only saw 10,000-20,000 baht as a fee. Therefore, I must ask the relevant parties to take action to reach the main culprit. The phone number that called me back was not connected. As for the LINE group, when my daughter dragged me into the group of people pretending to be the DSI, I immediately left the LINE group and could not be contacted again. 'I would like to call on the new national police chief to seriously suppress this matter. I would also like to call on the prime minister, as the director of the Royal Thai Police, to have a serious policy to suppress this matter because it is not just my daughter who was wronged. All victims must receive justice in these cases. As the chairman of the House of Representatives Police Commission, I will put this matter on the agenda because I have considered many such cases in the past. In the end, I did not think that what we are doing to help society and suppress today would happen to my daughter because it has affected her emotionally and made her cry. From now on, we must help take care of her mental health and I would like to condemn the behavior of these people as being very despicable. Let this be a lesson. If you really have a case, please go to the police station or government agency. Do not believe what they say on the phone. Do not tr ansfer money to them because in reality, there is no such thing. Also, do not be fooled by investments and do not be greedy. I implore the public not to believe these things,' said Mr. Chaichana. As for the solution, I suggest that the NBTC must cut off all numbers that are not registered in SIM boxes and must specify how many numbers each foreigner can use. Also, those who have overpaid must check their taxes to see if they are registered as a business or have income. These accounts must be frozen. If we do not start nipping at the bud, we cannot suppress them. Including the Chinese groups who are doing these things, even though Thais are involved, I would like to say that we should stop deceiving our fellow human beings and killing our fellow human beings. It is a sin that cannot be avoided. You may be happy today, but if it happens to your family one day, how will your relatives feel? Apart from the fraudulent money transfer behavior, are there any other behaviors? Mr. Chaichana said that one thing this group did was video call his daughter and threatened to release the images of the conversation. If these images were released, he would report the person who shared and released the images. Source: Thai News Agency