BANGKOK — 17 October 2026, Metropolitan police rescued a university student who was manipulated by a call-centre scam gang into isolating themselves and staging a fake kidnapping to pressure their parents into paying a ransom, police said. Pathumwan Police Station received a report from the student’s parents that their child had gone missing from their […]
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Bangkok Metropolitan Police rescued a student victim who was tricked by a call center gang into locking herself inside the house in order to extort ransom from her parents.