The Royal Thai Police (RTP) issued a warning to pornography lovers to be vigilant after a sufferer was fleeced of three million baht after he browsed an illegal porn web site.
The RTP yesterday told a gathering press pack that the highest five scams in Thailand included counterfeit services, fraudulent part-time or freelance jobs, mortgage scams, call centre scams, and investment scams. The RTP added that a well-liked new rip-off is pushing to get into the top five – porn web site extortion.
Deadline made recognized that the sufferer was contacted by the administrator of a porn website he browsed and invited him to add the web site as a friend on the LINE application. The admin informed the victim that there was extra free grownup content material out there on the LINE account, so the victim agreed to add it.
The sufferer was then invited to perform a sequence of tasks to entry extra free express content after which lured into making use of as a member of an web site referred to as the v-verve club.
During the tasks, the victim was lured into transferring cash to the website. The internet admin encouraged the sufferer to transfer larger quantities assuring him that he would get the entire a refund at the end of the game. Eventually, the sufferer lost three million baht to the rip-off.
The RTP added that people ought to be aware of these scamming web sites. The RTP also added that a number of individuals had fallen sufferer to a TikTok rip-off.
The scammers contact the victims by way of phone and invite them to complete a task on the TikTok utility to realize rewards..