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Woman lured into opening bank accounts, now suspect in fraud cases

Urairat Thap-udom tries to hold back tears as she speaks to reporters at her home in Khaen Dong district of Buri Ram on Monday. (Photo: Surachai Piraksa)

BURI RAM: A 23-year-old woman named a co-suspect in six fraud cases totalling 3 million baht says she was conned into opening bank accounts for the swindlers, believing she was getting a job at a casino in Poipet.

Urairat Thap-udom told reporters on Monday she was at her wit’s end, she had nothing to do with the fraud and did not know what to do next, and it was stressing her out.

She had worked at a casino in the Cambodian border town of Poipet, opposite Aranyaprathet in Sa Kaeo province, for three years from 2018 to 2020. She then had to return to Thailand, having lost her job with the arrival of Covid-19, and had stayed with friend in Aranyaprathet…

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