{"asset":"news","key":"11079","locale":"en","id":"news:11079:en","entityId":"news:11079","canonicalUrl":"https://www.kps-tv.com/en/news/detail/11079","state":"ready","title":"Fake officers, romance and investments: Pattaya scam ring raided over up to 350 million baht","summary":"Thai police raided a luxury villa in Bang Lamung district, Pattaya, Chonburi, on the afternoon of November 9, dismantling a transnational online scam operation mainly involving Chinese nationals. Ten people were arrested at the scene: eight Chinese and two Myanmar nationals.","body":"Thai police raided a luxury villa in Bang Lamung district, Pattaya, Chonburi, on the afternoon of November 9, dismantling a transnational online scam operation mainly involving Chinese nationals. Ten people were arrested at the scene: eight Chinese and two Myanmar nationals.\n\nPolice investigators said the group targeted Chinese women through romance-and-investment scams. Members posed as senior Chinese military officers and used Douyin to find widowed women or women living alone. They spent 15 to 30 days building romantic relationships before persuading victims to download fake investment apps and transfer money to designated accounts. Police records showed more than 700 transfers involving about 300 million to 350 million baht, with approximately 100 Chinese women victimised.\n\nAccording to the investigation, the operation had been running for about six months from a rented villa with a swimming pool, at a monthly rent of about 140,000 baht. Police identified a 37-year-old Chinese man, Guan Chunyu, as the alleged leader, but he was not among those arrested in this raid.\n\nAll eight Chinese detainees are suspected of illegal entry, and four are already wanted by Chinese authorities. The two Myanmar nationals worked as villa cleaners. Police seized computers, mobile phones and at least 178 SIM cards, and are continuing to trace the scam funds and other people implicated in the case.","contentScope":"full","proof":{"publishedSourceRevision":"2","publishedWorkingVersionId":"19449","languageVersionId":"20943","visibilityVersion":"3","versionToken":"a1.Rr3ohW0dmX8FXUDZbXGE6_hWSzX09mvqn8bpKbf105Y"},"availableLocales":["zh","en","km"],"attributes":{"sourceLocale":"zh","translationKind":"machine","nodeId":"183","authorText":"","sourceName":""},"references":[],"links":[],"publishedAt":"2026-11-10T04:16:08Z"}