Thai scammers posing as police, force innocents to empty bank accounts and transfer it to Cambodia

Thai scammers in some cases, pretending to be police, targeted victims and  threatened to press charges against them, who they claimed had been involved in drug-related money laundering.

The victims were then asked to empty their bank accounts and transfer all the money to them for examination, said Pol ol Maj Gen Phanthana Nutchanart, head of the Police Cyber Taskforce (PCT).

They allegedly duped Thais into transferring money to their accounts, causing millions of baht in damage.

The money ended up in bank accounts in Phnom Penh. Since September, 60 Thais had fallen victim to the scammers with damage amounting to over 73 million baht, said Pol Maj Gen Phanthana.

Thirty-nine Thais, including a prime suspect in a fraud case, were arrested mid December  during coordinated joint raids in the Cambodian capital and Sihanoukville.

A team of Thai police and a Cambodian task force stormed…