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It's getting worrying as ATMs are the only way I get money out here.
>>Wire-tapper 'part of big credit-card fraud ring'
BANGKOK: -- A man arrested in Bangkok's Chatuchak district is suspected of belonging to a transnational gang of credit-card thieves, Tourist Police commander Colonel Panya Mamen told a press conference yesterday.
Tossapol Chaowanawuth, 42, was arrested at a rented house in Lat Phrao Soi 41. He was charged with stealing electronic information via telephone lines.
Police said Tossapol confessed to conspiring with at least four accomplices to steal credit-card details - by intercepting data from phone lines at small switchboards before the information reached banks in Phuket.
The gang members then converted the analog numbers into data put on MP3 players, each of which could hold up to 100 credit-card codes.
These were sent to the gang leader in Malaysia, who transferred the data on to forged credit cards, which were sent back to purchase goods in Thailand.
Police said the gang operated for about six months. They allegedly caused financial losses to various banks of about Bt60 million - and possibly up to Bt360 million.<<
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