International phone fraud ring busted in Chiang Mai

Chiang Mai - Police in the northern provincial city of Chiang Mai have arrested 94 Chinese and Taiwanese nationals believed to have been operating an international money transfer fraud ring on Tuesday.
Thaivisa.com reported about 100 police from the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB), along with tourist police and highway police, executed warrants at 11 houses at several well-known Chiang Mai housing estates Tuesday as part of a concerted effort to close the gang's operation down.
According to police, most of the suspects taken into custody were good-looking females who would use prepared scripts to trick people into making online money transfers.
Police said the raids netted telephones, computers, communication equipment and the scripts used by the gang, as well as a safe belonging to a core Taiwanese leader of the gang containing Thai and Chinese currency totaling Bt50 million (about $US1.47 million).

The Nation