THAI LAW - Call Center Scam
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Thai law | Most people have
heard about call centre scams which are not unique to Thailand. You may already
have been contacted by them, either here in Thailand or other countries. It is
so easy to set up a ‘dummy’ business and use it to extort money from another
country. There’s nothing wrong with the principle of a call centre. They were set up to provide a service to a
company’s clients and have worked well in that role. The system is designed to queue incoming
calls which are then answered one by one by an operator(s) until they are
complete. Indeed they are used quite legitimately in Thailand by such companies
as AIS, telephone directory and even the police.
The scam usually
involves groups of people both local and foreign. They will call targets with the aim of
getting them to invest in fake companies that deals in valuable resources such
as gold, oil, diamonds etc. They will promise large returns on your investment. On closing the deal, they will ask for the
transfer of cash to them which will never be seen again. Common targets are senior citizens from
Europe, Australia, USA and other developed countries. Senior citizens and
retirees are often thought to have savings tucked away and are the ‘soft target’. The callers will show themselves to be
extremely successful in a high value market and one jump ahead of all their
competitors. They will be aggressive and
bullish to convince the target that this is an opportunity not to be missed.
They will not allow time for the target to ask questions and promise almost
anything including ridiculous bargains but of course these promises are never
kept. They will underline the importance
of investing now as tomorrow will be too late.
Operations of this
nature should be reported to the police and they will be dealt with under Thailaw.
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The Thai police
sometimes call these operations a “Boiler Room” scam as it is usually set up in
a clandestine area such as a home or apartment building with the scammers
working at night to coincide with the different time zones. Most of the time
the people who set up these companies are gangsters who will try to declare
themselves as a one hundred percent legitimate business with a good looking
website and advertising, when actually they do not have a business at all so
they only try to deceive you into paying them money for free. When they are
finally caught and arrested the police usually do not have enough evidence to
convict them abroad and the victims never come to Thailand to be a witness in
Thai court or give evidence or money transfer. They will be convicted in Thai
court and usually receive a six month sentence maybe even less and will have to
pay a fine; these punishments are minimal compared to the damage they have
caused, if any of the convicted are foreigners then the immigration department
will choose to deport them back to their own country and they will be put on
Thailand blacklist for re entry.
If you are contacted
on whatever basis listen to them first, if they keep talking like a salesman
constantly asking you to buy something without proof of a real product beware.
Do not trust them and believe everything that they say because they will try to
steal the money from you, please understand that they are not the real article.
Always check through trusted sources and consider researching about their
company to make sure they are legitimate. Be safe and protect yourself and it
will save you in the end.
THAI LAW - Call Center Scam
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