Thais Busted Trying Phuket Con Trick in Vietnam – phuketwan.com, July 26, 2011
…The 11 were given a list of Thai names and numbers to call. The men would pretend to be police or members of the Department of Special Investigations, the women would call and say they represented a government bank.
Working to a prepared script, the callers enticed victims to pay five baht for every 100 baht advanced as part of a ”special offer…”
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