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ACSC and CIB join forces to arrest a gang selling fake concert tickets using over 350 fake accounts in X, defrauding nearly a thousand victims of almost 4 million baht.
On June 11, 2026, the Online Anti-Fraud Center (ACSC), along with officers from the Crime Suppression Division and Huai Khwang Police Station, arrested Mr. Thawatchai, 26 years old; Mr. Udomsak, 37 years old; Ms. Sasiprapha, 23 years old; Ms. Thanyalak, 37 years old; Ms. Rattanakorn, 25 years old; Ms. Jetsupa, 22 years old; and Mr. Surakan, 22 years old, all pursuant to arrest warrants issued by the Criminal Court.
The charges include: "Conspiracy to defraud the public, conspiracy to defraud by impersonation, conspiracy to fraudulently or deceptively introduce false information into a computer system that is likely to cause damage to the public, conspiracy to launder money, and conspiracy to launder money." They were charged with being members of a criminal gang, and authorities seized 10 bank account passbooks, 4 mobile phones, and 1 car as evidence. The arrests took place in Bangkok, Nakhon Pathom, and Phuket.
This stems from a series of fraudulent activities involving the sale of fake concert tickets for various Thai and international artists, including GOT7/Jackson Wang, NCT, DAY6, BLACKPINK, SEVENTEEN, aespa, TWICE, EXO, DOH KYUNG SOO/D.O. Asia Tour, ONE OK ROCK, Daniel Caesar, Cocktail, BUS/Happy BUSDAY, Three Man Down, Asanee-Wasan, Nonthanon (Suriysurai Concert), Jeff Satur, Potato, Paradox, Billkin, and Tattoo Colour, through the X platform. This constitutes one of the highest numbers of online crimes.
Most victims are fans seeking tickets for concerts, fan meetings, and music festivals. In many cases, these tickets are hard to find or sell out quickly, leading victims to believe the scammers and transfer money to them.
Investigations revealed over 350 fake accounts (accounts X) used to scam people by selling fake concert tickets. 739 victims filed online complaints, with total damages exceeding 3.7 million baht. The group had clearly defined roles, including monitoring concert ticket sales, posting sales ads on X, responding to victims' messages, providing dummy accounts for receiving transfers, and withdrawing cash to cut off the money trail before passing it on to other members of the group.
Subsequently, investigators gathered evidence and obtained arrest warrants from the court for this group of suspects. They apprehended several individuals, including those who opened dummy accounts, those who withdrew cash, those who researched online ticket sales, those who responded to victims' messages, and those who provided dummy accounts for receiving transfers.
During questioning, Ms. Thanyalak, one of the suspects, confessed that in early 2025, she was hired by a group of friends to withdraw cash from bank accounts, claiming it was business money. Once the money was transferred into her account, she would withdraw it and pass it on to the group.
After the account was frozen and victims reported being scammed into buying concert tickets through X, it became clear that the group of friends were involved in online concert ticket scams. However, she admitted to withdrawing money in this manner more than 50 times, totaling over 200,000 baht.
Ms. Rattanakorn stated that her group would monitor when concert tickets or popular events went on sale. They would then take images of ticket bookings or e-tickets from others advertised on X, edit them by altering the buyer's name, seat number, and adding their own X account watermark to create credibility before posting them for fraudulent sale.
Ms. Rattanakorn further stated that she also provided X accounts with more than 2,000 followers to use in the crime. After successfully committing a crime, they would constantly change the account name and user ID to repeat the offense and evade detection. They also provided "mock accounts" to receive money transfers from victims, using edited photos of the account owner's ID card with the text "For concert ticket sales only" to gain the victims' trust.
Once the victims were deceived into transferring money, the scammers would quickly transfer the funds through multiple accounts before withdrawing them as cash and distributing the profits among members of the group. This scam has been ongoing since late 2024.
The suspects were then handed over to investigators at Division 2, Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau, for legal proceedings.
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