Chaiชนะ exposes new call center scam targeting parents for 2.6M

Mr. Chaiชนะ recently shed light on an increasingly sophisticated tactic employed by a call center scam ring on August 16. Two victims filed formal police reports, including a first-year female university student who was targeted by criminals claiming her bank accounts were linked to illegal drug offenses and active arrest warrants.

What makes this operation particularly alarming is that the scammers did not merely pressure the primary target. Instead, they coerced the student into deceiving her own family members by altering a LINE account to mimic her professor's name and profile picture, falsely convincing her parents that she had secured a prestigious scholarship to study abroad.

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The perpetrators further escalated the deception by impersonating a consular official to bolster their credibility, insisting that funds were strictly required as financial proof and visa processing fees. The trusting parents even went as far as borrowing money from friends and coworkers to satisfy the demands for their daughter's supposed educational journey to Germany.

เหตุการณ์นี้สะท้อนให้เห็นถึงพัฒนาการของกลโกงแก๊งคอลเซ็นเตอร์ที่มีความแนบเนียนมากขึ้น จากเดิมที่มุ่งหลอกเหยื่อโดยตรง กลายเป็นการบังคับให้เหยื่อไปหลอกคนในครอบครัวต่อ ทำให้ผู้ปกครองยิ่งเชื่อและตัดสินใจให้เงินได้ง่ายขึ้น

Mr. Chaiชนะ

Perhaps most shocking of all, the criminals' method of collecting funds was not restricted to digital bank transfers. They instructed the victims to withdraw massive amounts of physical cash, after which individuals drove directly to the student's condominium complex to collect millions in cash on two separate occasions.