Police raided a rented house in Bangkok and arrested eleven South Koreans suspected of operating a scam that defrauded victims in their home country of about 65 million baht.
The nine men and two women, aged between 19 and 35 years, were taken into custody on Sunday in Ram Inthra, Khan Na Yao district. They were believed to have fled from the crackdown in Cambodia, Pol Lt Gen Natthasak Chaowanasai, chief of the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB), said on Monday.
The Thai Anti-Cyber Scam Centre had been exchanging information with the South Korean embassy in Bangkok since 2025, he said. Authorities had learned that some Koreans had set up a cyberfraud centre in Bangkok, targeting fellow South Koreans.
In the raid on Sunday, police found 11 workstations equipped with VoIP phones, computers, internet routers and scripts for scamming. The suspects posed as Korean officials and deceived their victims into believing they were somehow involved in legal cases and were required to transfer money to them, Pol Lt Gen Natthasak said.
Investigators said the reported damage was over 3 billion won, about 65 million baht.
The 11 suspects were being held at Khok Khram police station for legal proceedings, the CIB chief added.
Most of the suspects arrested at the crime scene in Bangkok. (Police photo)
