A 23-year-old former call center gang member from a 25-story building in Poipet was arrested after fleeing back to Thailand. He cleverly took on assignments himself, repeatedly calling victims he had previously contacted to invest, causing losses of 8.6 million baht.
On 7 May 2026 GMT+7, investigative police from Division 2 of the Provincial Police Region 6 arrested 23-year-old Nopparat (surname withheld) from Bangkok under an arrest warrant issued by Sawankhalok Provincial Court No. J.37/2569 dated 5 May 2026. He is charged with "conspiracy to defraud the public and conspiracy to input false data into a computer system."
This follows orders from Pol. Lt. Gen. Kitisak Durongkawiboon, Commander of Provincial Police Region 6, instructing Pol. Maj. Gen. Dechapol Premsiri, Head of the Investigation Division, and Pol. Col. Tawisak Thaboonchu, Chief of Division 2 investigators, to expedite solving the case. On 11 February 2026, Sawankhalok Police in Sukhothai province received a complaint from a victim who was contacted by a person claiming to be the district chief officer of Doi Saket, Chiang Mai. The suspect invited the victim to invest in a scheme purported to generate extra income by transferring money via an app to promote products for a store, promising returns. The victim believed this and transferred funds about 90 times to enable withdrawal transactions. However, after completing this, the suspect tricked the victim into transferring additional payments for taxes and transaction fees multiple times. The scam continued from around September 2024 until 25 January 2026, totaling 187 transfers over nearly two years, causing damages of 8,605,788.86 baht.
Subsequently, the suspect requested further transfers from the victim. The victim consulted with their son, realized they had been defrauded, and reported the matter to police. Pol. Col. Tawisak Thaboonchu ordered officers from Division 2, led by Pol. Lt. Col. Alongkot Thapchom and his team, to investigate and identify the perpetrators.
Eventually, Sawankhalok police issued an arrest warrant and successfully apprehended Nopparat, the offender.
During initial interrogation, Nopparat confessed that in early 2024 he worked as an admin for a call center gang in a 25-story building in Poipet, Cambodia, where he helped scam victims. Each victim was tricked into transferring money to the gang’s bank accounts. He earned a monthly salary of 20,000 baht. Later, he was assigned a phone used specifically to scam the victim repeatedly.
Later, when his employer began withholding his salary, he saw an opportunity to earn money by using his own bank account to receive funds from victims instead of the gang’s account. He then fled the workplace around January 2025, returning to Thailand while keeping the phone used for scams. He continued to call and deceive victims, receiving transfers into his personal bank account for over a year.
By early February 2026, while attempting to scam the victim again, he realized the victim had become suspicious. He deleted data from the phone used, after which his bank accounts were frozen, and he removed banking apps before wiping the phone and handing it to someone else. He admitted to defrauding the victim and confessed to having spent all the stolen money.