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The Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) has warned customers to beware of individuals claiming to be MEA staff and offering to collect money due on their power bill, change their meter or clean their air conditioner.

The massive growth in online transactions, especially during the Covid-19 crisis, has brought a spike in the number of scams to deceive customers into revealing their one-time passwords (OTP), telecoms giant Advanced Info Services (AIS) warned on Tuesday.

Wilawan Phayanoi, deputy director-general of the Comptroller General's Department announced on Tuesday (November 26) that her office has received several complaints about an unknown individual calling from a cell phone claiming to be an officer of the department and asking the recipients for bank account numbers, saying that the government will transfer Bt2,000 as one of schemes to help low income earners.

Malaysian authorities have nabbed nearly 1,000 China nationals who were believed to be working in the country with an online scam syndicate, local media reported.

A Vietnamese man was arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport earlier this month for allegedly scamming many Thais and his own compatriots into believing they could make purchases in Thailand with fake digital currency called OneCoin instead of baht.

The Bank of Thailand issued a warning on Tuesday against a foreign exchange trading scam circulating on social media and websites.

Police have arrested three men who allegedly posed as senior police officers who could clear away drug charges in a scam to dupe drug suspects of their money.

Police on Friday warned Thais of a new scam that is capable of emptying a victim's bank account in minutes after he or she is lured into pressing "yes" to a pop-up request asking if the victims wants to link his/her account to an electronic wallet.

Some 30 disgruntled online gamers have filed complaints with Crime Suppression Division (CSD) police in Bangkok alleging they had been duped by a cosmetic surgery promoter to invest real money into a virtual corn farming game to earn cash.

A Bangkok woman was arrested on Tuesday morning for allegedly pretending to be a bank officer to steal credit card information for online shopping.

Police has arrested a Thai couple for allegedly conning 10 policemen out of a total of Bt1.52 million by using fake Line accounts to give false promises of police promotions in the annual reshuffle.

The metropolitan police have arrested a woman who has been allegedly using hacked Facebook accounts to deceive people to transfer her money for goods that do not exist.