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Thai police have launched Operation Bridge Burst to crack down on shops registering SIM cards for call centre scams nationwide, seizing a large number of items in the process.
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Thai police have launched Operation Bridge Burst to crack down on shops registering SIM cards for call centre scams nationwide, seizing a large number of items in the process.
Yesterday, at the Royal Thai Police (RTP) headquarters, Kittirat Phunphech, Deputy Commissioner-General of the Royal Thai Police and Director of the Technology Crime Suppression Centre (TCSC), along with Tatchai Pitaneelabut, Assistant Commissioner-General and Deputy Director of the TCSC, joined representatives from mobile network providers and the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) to announce the operation. The goal is to sever the communication links between scammers and the public, which include phone signals, internet, fake SIM cards, mule accounts, SMS, and social media platforms.
During the operation conducted from October 1 to 10, TCSC mobilised…