A 28-year-old Thai woman fled a call center gang in Poipet by climbing the border wall back to Thailand but slipped, broke her ankle, and was rescued by border patrol soldiers.
On 10 May 2026, reports stated that at 06:40 on 9 May, the Burapha Force, including the Aranyaprathet Special Task Force and Border Patrol Company 1201 under the 12th Ranger Regiment, received coordination from the Sawang Thien Tham Rescue Foundation reporting an injured woman found near the border between Checkpoints 13 and 14 at Ban Dong Ngu, Pa Rai Subdistrict, Aranyaprathet District, Sa Kaeo Province.
After receiving the report, border patrol soldiers and rescue workers inspected the scene and found a Thai woman with a fractured right ankle and no passport. She was identified as Ms. Pimphon, 28, from Trat Province. Officials provided first aid before transferring her to Aranyaprathet Hospital, where doctors applied a cast and allowed her to continue treatment at Paolo Hospital in Bangkok at her request.
Initial investigations revealed that Ms. Pimphon had applied for a job through a Facebook job-hunting group, which claimed to offer online gambling site admin work that could be done from home. She was asked to bring her bank account book to receive salary. She was then picked up in Bangkok and taken to Aranyaprathet District, but upon arrival, she was illegally taken across the border to Poipet, Cambodia.
Upon arrival in Cambodia, she was forced to scan her face via a banking app and was held inside a building used as a base by the call center gang. There, she was made to handle horse accounts and facial scanning for the criminal group.
She said that in late April, Cambodian authorities began cracking down on foreign workers in Poipet. She took this opportunity to escape the building and stayed with relatives on the Cambodian side before deciding to return to Thailand. Without money to pay a guide, she asked locals for directions and traveled on foot through natural paths.
In the early morning of 9 May, while climbing the border wall to re-enter Thailand, she fell and broke her ankle, making it impossible to continue. She called for help from rescue workers before border patrol soldiers arrived to assist her.
After the rescue, Border Patrol Company 1201 took her to the investigators at Khlong Luang Police Station for legal proceedings and to expand investigations into the illegal recruitment and transnational call center gang network.