Police have arrested six foreigners believed to be members of a transnational gang that has conned victims out of more than 100 million baht in an online investment scam.
Interpol previously alerted the Thai authorities about the group of foreigners who have allegedly set up fake investment firms to lure internet users into putting their money into a non-existent investment programme.
The arrest followed a joint operation of the Central Investigation Bureau, Crime Suppression Division and Tourist Police.
The suspected gang members included four British nationals, one French man and a Filipina.
Pol Maj Gen Panya Mamen, deputy Central Investigation Bureau commissioner, said that local officers discovered that the gang had constructed fake company websites in both Thailand and the Philippines.
It also imitated real websites and lured victims into transferring money for investing in fake stocks via their fake websites.
The six people were discovered working on computers in a house in Soi Thong Lor 25 after police raided the property. Seven desktop and six notebook computers along with 31 mobile phones were seized from the house.
Based on the information gathered from the seized computers, the gang had managed to get a number of victims to transfer more than 100 million baht into its accounts.
The gang members claimed that they knew nothing about the scam and had been hired by a man identified only as Paul for 30,000 baht to 50,000 baht per month to type information into the computers and answer the telephone.
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