Police arrested a 17 yr old boy who sold ghost SIM cards on-line at his house in Ranong province in southern Thailand. The teenager used information from his previous prospects to repeatedly register SIM playing cards on the market. Narudom managed to make over 500 transactions.
Officers from the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau raided a home in the Khao Niwet sub-district, Mueng district, Ranong province yesterday and arrested the teenager, Narudom, also referred to as M, who sold ghost SIM cards via a Facebook account known as Mr M (นาย’ย เอ็ม’ม).
Following the investigation, the police seized 703 registered SIM playing cards, a cell phone, and two SIM card readers as proof.
The arrest got here after the police acquired a tip-off that somebody was secretly promoting ghost SIM playing cards on Facebook. The investigation led officers to the mentioned Facebook page the place they found several posts promoting varied forms of ghost SIM playing cards. For example…
“SIM Cards on the market, each registered and unregistered. AIS DTAC TRUE. AIS The OneSIM 39 baht. DTAC 35 baht. DTAC 39 baht with free top-up money.”
Narudom confessed to selling the ghost SIM cards on-line. He revealed that he ordered the unregistered SIM playing cards from an area phone shop. He then posted the items on the market on Facebook and would register the SIM playing cards when receiving the orders. He used the personal information of his previous customers who had purchased SIM playing cards from him.
Consequently, the police charged Narudom with arranging, promoting, or otherwise facilitating the sale of mobile phone numbers for cell phone services which have been registered underneath someone else’s identify, but cannot be recognized. Roadmap shall be imprisonment of up to three years and a nice of up to 300,000 baht.
According to ThaiRath, police in the Isaan province of Khon Kaen arrested three suspects for selling ghost SIM cards at present. The first suspect was a forty nine yr outdated lady named Pinyada Thongteeraparp who sold ghost SIM playing cards through the e-commerce utility Shopee. The second suspect was a forty two yr previous man named Thanakrit Homchan who owned a neighborhood phone shop within the province. The newest suspect was a 34 yr outdated woman named Kanyaphak Chantasi who bought the ghost SIM playing cards at her phone shop positioned in a shopping mall..