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Police warn of scammers, fake pages, receive reports online

Warning of fake online police reporting pages. While the statistics of receiving online notifications in the past week Number one is still a case of fraudulent trading of goods or services.

At 11:00 a.m. today (29 August 2023), Pol. Gen. Sompong Chingduang, special adviser to the Royal Thai Police, as head of the working group to strengthen immunity against technological crime, together with Pol. Chusak Sannit, Technology Crime Investigation and Analysis Commander online warning notice after in the past There are criminals pretending to create fake online notification websites of various agencies. whether it belongs to National Police Agency, Central Investigation, Cyber Police, etc.

Maj. Gen. Chusak revealed that criminals will advertise through fake Facebook pages when victims search for government agencies to receive reports online. This group of pages will buy ads from Facebook, causing the page to appear in the search engine from various Search Engines, including Google Bing Safari, etc. When the victim believes, clicks on the website or Pages, Facebook will talk to the Ai system and ask them to add LINE friends, the culprit, then send even if the culprit claims to be a lawyer to scam asking for personal information then claiming to have investigated the financial path It was found that the money had gone out of the country. and criminals will use horse accounts Can't follow the money back But the money laundering was still unsuccessful. and know which platform the money enters

Then it was proposed that have IT staff that can attack gambling websites but must apply and gamble on the website first to recover money from the gambling website system not brought to gamble but to bring money back from the website by attacking But there is a condition that you have to use your own money. The more you top up, the more you get back and faster. and can only do it during certain times of the day Otherwise, the server will detect it and ask for a 10% deduction for lawyer fees. From the income you get from attacking. the victim believes do as the crooks deceive It appears that he lost more than 1 million baht from the original report of being deceived, losing 10,000 baht.

There is also a call center gang that uses SIM horse mobile phone numbers to call victims, deceiving that a patient has been sent to the emergency room. And there is a charge to be paid for urgent surgery. When the victim denies knowing the injured person Will pester you by claiming to be the patient's emergency contact. If you don't pay What is the patient's responsibility? But in this case, the public knows so no damage

For online notification statistics from August 20-26 A total of 3,671 cases have been reported, with a total damage of 466 million baht. The top 5 cases with the highest incidence in number 1 are still products or service fraud cases. There were 1,781 complaints filed, with a total damage of more than 21 million baht.

The 2nd place is the fraud case of transferring money to work for extra income. There are 378 cases, but the damage amount is more than 50 million baht.

Ranked 3 was 342 computer fraud cases with the highest amount of damage totaling more than 175 million baht.

Number 4 is money loan fraud cases with 304 cases, causing damages of more than 13 million baht.

And number 5 is a case of fraud in installing system drivers on telephones. 270 cases received, total damages exceeding 44 million baht.

ready to reiterate the public Receiving online reports from the Royal Thai Police can only be reported at Thaipoliceonline.com.

Source: Thai News Agency