Police have arrested nine suspects involved in a scam using the YouTube platform that resulted in a middle-school student in Nonthaburi taking his own life.
Pol Maj Gen Wiwat Kamchamnan, deputy commissioner of the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB), said the police arrested a gang of scammers on Thursday following a case that saw a Mathayom 3 student in Pak Kret district hang himself from a tree on Sunday, after he left a suicide note for his parents.
The note said the victim was tricked into watching some advertisements on YouTube that were presented as a “mission” he had to complete to get…
