An 18-year-old has sought protection from the Justice Ministry, telling a harrowing story after escaping from a call scam gang he was tricked into working for in Cambodia.
Identifying himself only as Surasak, the teenager said at the ministry on Tuesday he had received threatening phone calls since being helped to escape and return to Thailand.
He said he saw an advertisement on social media for a job in Poipet with a 40,000-baht a month salary and free transport there, and applied for it last September.
He was told to meet a Thai man in Khok Sung district of Sa Kaeo. The man took him illegally across the border to Poipet and left him at a building surrounded by an electrified fence.
There, he said, he saw about 100 other Thais who had been lured into working for call scam gangs. There were also many Filipinos, Indonesians and Malaysians.
“There were rooms for five workers each and they received three meals a day. They were ordered to make scam calls. Each had books containing the information of about 200 Thai people,” Mr Surasak said.
Scam callers must pretend to be government officials, phone potential victims and tell the people they were linked with…
