Online and phone-call scammers stole 31.58 billion baht from 218,210 complainants over the past 12 months, police said on Tuesday.
Pol Lt Gen Sompong Chingduang, assistat police chief, said the figures were collected from March 1 last year to March 11 this year.
The highest damage resulted from investment scams. Victims filed 16,460 complaints and told police they were tricked out of 7.66 billion baht altogether, Pol Lt Gen Sompong said.
During the same period, police received 29,945 complaints about job search scams and complainants said they lost…
