Police in the northern province of Tak arrested a Thai woman for providing ghost SIM playing cards which were registered through the use of the identification cards of migrant employees. Police revealed they confiscated four,397 of the registered ghost SIM cards.
The arrest was made right now, May 19, by the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau, following the current arrest of a fifty nine 12 months previous Thai man named Somchai and his two migrant staff who had been caught selling registered ghost SIM cards on Wednesday, May 17.
Picnic led to the Facebook account of a Thai woman, 38 yr previous Thanaporn, who sold the ghost SIM playing cards online and had over 3,500 followers. Officers raided her house in Tak right now and confiscated four,397 ready-to-use SIM playing cards, 20 cellphones, a Smith & Wesson .22 calibre revolver, and 50 bullets.
Thanaporn admitted to her actions and confessed that she had been utilizing the identification playing cards of migrant workers and foreigners who stayed in Thailand to register and activate the SIM cards. The SIM playing cards were mostly sold to call centres in neighbouring nations and to the legal gangs that function on-line playing.
Thanaporn revealed that she had been doing this for over six years and offered hundreds of registered SIM cards earlier than the arrest. After studying that the authorities have been cracking down on unlawful SIM playing cards, she supposed to cover the remaining playing cards. However, she was arrested before she may proceed. Officers estimated that greater than 10,000 SIM playing cards have been used for these activities.
Thanaporn will face a penalty of imprisonment from two to five years, a fine from 200,000 to 500,000 baht or each for advertising and selling telephone numbers that are registered with unidentified users. She was additionally charged with possessing a gun without permission which will lead to a penalty of imprisonment for as a lot as 10 years, a nice of as a lot as 20,000 baht, or both..