Cyber police carry out an operation to break up the investment scam ring, Amata Group, Phase 2, arresting an increasing network of horse accounts. After finding the silver line Converted to crypto The damage value is more than 66 million baht.
Police Lieutenant General Worawat Wattanakornbancha, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Armed Forces, together with representatives of Amata Corporation Public Company Limited, announced the expansion of the results of the operation to dismantle the Amata Group Phase 2 investment scam, previously. FTI has discovered fraudsters hiding in the stock trading group of the Amata Group. Therefore, an investigation was carried out and the perpetrator’s network was arrested. Which previously announced the results of the arrests in Phase 1 on July 10, arresting 9 suspects from a total of 11 arrest warrants. Later, the investigation has continued to expand the results of the arrests until the present.
Pol. Lt. Gen. Worawat said that as a result of the investigation team having launched an operation to dismantle the investment scam of the Amata group. They arrested 9 suspects out of 11 on July 10th. Later, it was found that there were still more fake pages. Therefore, they investigated the operation in Phase 2 and found as many as 73 pages pretending to be Amata group pages, which was reduced from the number of fake pages in Phase 1 which had as many as 217 pages. There were 203 victims who filed complaints, with a total damage value of more than 66 million baht. The cyber police carried out an investigation and found that There were 32 horse accounts. Evidence was collected until arrest warrants were issued for 19 horse accounts. 10 were tracked down and arrested, with the remaining being traced.
As for the behavior of this movement, they will create a fake Facebook page that is the Amata Corporation group page by using the picture of Mr. Vikrom Kromadit, Managing Director and Director of Amata Corporation Public Company Limited or AMATA, to advertise in order to deceive and persuade people to invest with Amata funds. Then the villain They will create a Line account claiming to be a broker using several different Line names, such as @amata4978 / @amataservice7891 / @amata2788, etc., in order to add the victim to Line. Then talk and persuade for short-term investment. By inducing the victim that he would make a good profit in the short term and uploading a picture on a fake Facebook page that had a picture of Mr. Vikram. They come to show off in order to look trustworthy until the victims are led to believe that there will be good returns.
When the victim believes The fraudster will then inform the victim to transfer money to invest. The minimum amount is 1,000 baht at a time to close the portfolio in the short term. Get a return of up to 50% and then gradually persuade the victim to make the next transfer in smaller amounts many times until the amount exceeds hundreds of thousands of baht in some cases.
In the first stage, the scammers act and report profits back to the victims. To make the victim happy and excited and believe that it is true It appeared that when the victims traded a lot I will request to close the account to withdraw money. Scammers will report that Must first transfer money to pay taxes and various fees in the amount of over a hundred thousand baht. If the injured person does not transfer the said money The scammers will cut off contact and will no longer be able to trace the refund. As for the money that the victim transferred, It will be transferred into the horse account. And the horse account will spread the money over many rows.
Police Lieutenant General Worawat said that all citizens must be aware of scammers who fake Facebook accounts to look real and become victims. By all investment pages You must notice that Has the page received the Verified Badge or blue tick mark? Has the page been renamed to a different page before? Number of people who come to review or open to reviews and the admin who manages this page If you find that the page does not have a blue check mark. The page name had previously been changed until it did not match the current name. Couldn’t find or open for anyone to review. and the admin who manages the page is abroad Please assume that it is a fake page. Do not trust to give information or transfer money at all. Merely looking at the number of people who like a page is not enough. Because at present Scammers can pump up page likes.
It was also found that There are many large companies on the stock exchange. who were deceived by fraudsters in a similar manner The Cyber Police is conducting an investigation to bring the perpetrators to justice. Because it is considered to cause damage to the people and the economy of the country. Emphasizing the policy of the Royal Thai Police Commander who must immediately arrest online fraudsters. Ready to warn the public that they do not believe, do not hurry and do not transfer. As for whether or not this case has a large origin in the country or not, The investigation is in the process of expanding but it was discovered that the money had been converted to crypto.
Mr. Wiwat Kromadit, Chief Engineering Technical Officer and Chief Executive Officer Real estate business group in Thailand, Amata Corporation Public Company Limited, confirmed that The company has no policy for people to join in investing in such a way. From the arrest of the perpetrator network in Phase 1, it is thought that this will be alleviated. But wherever possible, there are still scammers who fake Amata PCL’s page and continually deceive the public. Until the results of additional arrests were extended in Phase 2, he therefore addressed the people that You should check the information clearly. Before deciding what to invest in.
Source: Thai News Agency