Bangkok, May 1 – Royal Thai Police together with the Revenue Department Warning of scammers pretending to be the Revenue Department deceiving people and during the week Found a lot of fraudulent online sales cases. Advice on landmarks - how to prevent
Royal Thai Police by Pol. Gen. Sompong Chingduang, Special Advisor Police officer/head of the working group to strengthen immunity against technological crime along with the working group worried about the people that may be another victim therefore cooperated with the Revenue Department by Mr. Winit Wisetsuvarnabhumi Deputy Director General of the Revenue Department A warning press conference was held on May 1, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. at the Royal Thai Police. Details are as follows:
In the past week (April 23-29, 2023), there was the highest number of complaints received online, still the same top 5 cases, namely No. 1) fraudulent cases of buying goods or services 2) cases of fraudulent transfer of money. To work for extra income 3) Loan fraud cases 4) Threats by telephone to cause fear and trick money transfer (Call Center) and 5) Investment fraud cases via computer system
There are 2 interesting online threats that occur during the week as follows:
“Looking for ways to impersonate the Revenue Department, deceive money
The first form is a call center gang calling victims pretending to be revenue department officials. and accuse the victim of wrongdoing, such as owing tax due to the establishment of the company or being impersonated to use the information to open a company or money laundering cases or tax evasion Then ask the victim to add LINE friends to the police station far from the victim's home (LINE forgery of the villain) and send forged documents to intimidate them into believing And deceived to transfer money, claiming to verify information Then add LINE friends to AMLO (fake LINE of villains) and trick them into transferring more money.
Model 2: The call center gang calls the victims. Pretending to be an officer of the Revenue Department Can help cancel or apply for various government projects such as blue flags, half a person, money bags, civil state cards or tax deductions or helping to avoid paying tax retrospectively Then let the victim go to a fake website to fill out and reveal personal information. Then download an application to take over the phone. and transfer the money of the victim
landmark
1) Fake names of the Revenue Department websites such as https://www.rd-go-th.xyz, https://www.rd-go- th.co, https://www.rd-go-th.top, and https://www.rd-go-th.org, etc., which is not the website of the Revenue Department which has many observation points
2) government documents used to intimidate Not in accordance with official form and language.
3) Government official identification card. The font used, name, rank, position is incorrect.
4) The Revenue Department, police stations, and AMLO don't have a way to contact a personal LINE account that can send stickers, make calls, video calls, or view LINE VOOM.
Prevention Methods
1) Study the channels for contacting the Revenue Department, which are available through 2 channels: Area Revenue Office branches and online via the Revenue Department's e-Filing system. 2)
Check the correct website name of the Revenue Department: https://www. rd.go.th 3) Ask
for information at all revenue offices nationwide or the RD Intelligence Center, Tel. 1161.
4) For downloading government websites or applications. Should be downloaded from the Appstore and Play Store. In case it is necessary to click on the download link, it should be searched in the Appstore and Play Store for another layer of filtering.
“Buying second-hand goods but get the product empty-handed
In this case, criminals create pages or post on various pages. to buy used goods (Phones, iPads, iPods, etc.) or general products Use a profile picture of a beautiful woman or create a page with a different name. until there are many followers Including having a bang to add credit until there is credibility Scam selling used or general products by requiring the victim to pay a deposit or pay first when the victim has transferred the money will not send the product and block the victim from contacting them The statistics for receiving the most online lawsuits in the top 5 are: No. 1) Phone / Ipad Most of the phones are Iphone by deceiving via Facebook page 2) Fruit or food such as clean food, milk carton by deceiving via Facebook page 3) Brand name clothes by deceiving via Facebook/IG page 4) Games (hire up level or buy games) by deceiving via Facebook/IG pages and 5) event tickets, concert tickets by deceiving via Twitter/IG.
Damage from fraudulent sales of goods and services from 1 Mar. '22 to 29 Apr. '23, a total of 89,577 cases, damage 1,308,527,198 baht.
Landmarks
1) If it's an official page, a "mark" will be shown.
2) See how many people like the post and negative emoticons. and blocking opinions or not?
3) See transparency whether Is the page history open for a long time? Does the name change often and is it consistent with the products posted for sale? What country is the page manager from? Is it consistent with the page? And should bring the page name to search on the Facebook page to compare the real thing. And create a number of followers or likes in additional information (about) to misunderstand that there are many
How to prevent
1) Check the credibility of the page. By looking at the observation point
2) You should check the trading credit first, such as posting to ask for credit or checking the preliminary background from www.blacklistseller.com. Whether there is a history or not.
3) In case of posting, asking for credit and someone answering. It should be thoroughly checked again that Is the person credited real?
National Police Agency caring for the people Therefore, we would like to publicize the public to consider the observation points of the differences. Between the real website or page and the fake and learn how to prevent from being a victim of online threats To be aware of online threats in new ways and can track online alarm information from websites and online alarm pages Or call the hotline 1441 if you find any wrongdoing. report at www.thaipoliceonline.com .-Thai News Agency
Source: Thai News Agency