Consumer scams cost B140m in July

Online goods and service purchase scams, particularly ones involving fake restaurant reservations, cost more than 140 million baht in damages to consumers in July, the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB) warned on Sunday.

The most common form of scam reported to the CCIB’s online complaint centre was fake buffet-table reservations during special days and public holidays, said CCIB spokesman Pol Col Kissana…