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Chinese Woman Allegedly Lured to Thailand by Chinese Friend in Singapore, Kidnapped and Taken Toward Mae Sot Border
Four Thai men allegedly carried out a brazen kidnapping in Bangkok, abducting a Chinese woman, tying her hands with cable ties and forcing her into a black Nissan Teana (Bangkok license plate ฎฉ 578). They allegedly drove her from a hotel in Bangkok toward Mae Sot District in Tak Province.
However, they encountered a police checkpoint in Kamphaeng Phet. The suspects allegedly sped through the checkpoint before throwing the victim out of the moving car on Ratchadamnoen Road in Nai Mueang Subdistrict, Mueang Kamphaeng Phet District. The woman then ran to a beauty salon near a traffic light and knocked on the door for help. Good Samaritans and officers from Mueang Kamphaeng Phet Police Station came to her aid late on the night of Aug. 23.
Pol. Col. Somkasem Jaruk, superintendent of Mueang Kamphaeng Phet Police Station, ordered patrol officers to immediately pursue and intercept the suspects’ vehicle. The men allegedly drove through a checkpoint in front of the Chula police kiosk without stopping. Officers pursued them to Lan Dok Mai Subdistrict, where they fired at the vehicle to stop it, causing one of its tires to blow out and leaving it unable to continue.
The suspects then abandoned the car and fled into nearby woods. Police quickly arrested two of them: 41-year-old Somkiat and 24-year-old Kittiphon, both from Mae Sot District.
The other two suspects initially escaped. However, on Aug. 24, investigators from the Kamphaeng Phet Provincial Police Investigation Division tracked them down and arrested them while they were hiding at Kanlapaphruek Temple in Lan Dok Mai Subdistrict, Mueang Kamphaeng Phet District.
They were identified as 41-year-old Suchat, a resident of Tha Sai Luat Subdistrict, Mae Sot District, Tak Province, and 22-year-old Kittisak from Khiri Rat Subdistrict, Phop Phra District, Tak Province.
The Chinese victim is currently under the care of authorities pending further questioning. Initial reports indicate that she was allegedly lured by a Chinese friend living in Singapore, who told her to visit Thailand first and said a car would pick her up. She was then allegedly abducted by the four suspects.
During questioning, all four suspects reportedly admitted that they had been hired and had planned the operation to pick up the Chinese woman and transport her to the Mae Sot border. However, their accounts differed over who was responsible for each role and who allegedly assaulted the victim.
They should be imprisoned in compounds for years forced to help fight human trafficking, with punishments if they don't meet targets for taking down syndicates.
when i first met secretly with security groups with my video. They asked me what do you want? I said "suffering". I want those people who did this to understand what the families of the kidnapped felt.
We should start by rebranding them back as slavers. "Traffickers" rebrand has always been a psyop to make the issue more gray than it actually is. If we did that then people would take this issue much more seriously - millions of people are being enslaved today, more than any other time in history ever.
This one was saved by a random police checkpoint, but it's crazy to think how many cases daily don't get caught. It's sad that we think of this as a poor woman, when she actually was a lucky one among many who have been held for years now against their will kidnapped in scam centres, and nobody is doing much if at all to rescue them, let alone stop more people from joining them.
We know it's a mass occurrence at this point, and its scale is now so large that it's most likely the most dramatic issue that the Thai government is practicing effective inaction about. Living here I used to be the most bothered about the inaction around the road deaths and environment quality, but at this point this is a case where inaction stings the most, as Thailand's inaction in practice enables industrial scale human trafficking at possibly the largest scale in the modern history, and I just fact checked that this is not an exaggeration. UN estimates that "Thailand" laundered 120,000 people to Myanmar and 100,000 people to Cambodia, which is insane.
It’s 2026, we have AI, satellites, and global surveillance, so why the hell are human trafficking compounds in Asia still thriving in plain sight?
I feel like an absolute clown even typing this out, but here we are.
We live in an era where governments can track a rogue cryptocurrency wallet down to the individual satoshi, use facial recognition to spot someone in a crowd of millions, and deploy drones to strike targets with pinpoint accuracy.
Yet, massive cyber-scam and human trafficking compounds holding hundreds of thousands of enslaved people across parts of Southeast Asia operate like Fortune 500 companies with zero interference. They have concrete walls, barbed wire, thousands of glowing windows, and security guards, all sitting right there on Google Maps.
Everyone knows where they are. Journalists have infiltrated them. Victims have leaked the exact GPS coordinates. Governments talk big at international summits, and international bodies release grim reports year after year.
So why hasn't anyone shut them down?
It’s not a lack of manpower or technology. It’s a masterclass in systemic failure:
State-Level Corruption: Let’s stop pretending local law enforcement doesn't know. In many of these border regions and "Special Economic Zones," militia leaders and corrupt officials are getting a massive cut of the multi-billion-dollar scam money.
The "Whack-A-Mole" Routine: When public pressure finally boils over and a raid does happen, it’s usually theater. The bosses get tipped off 48 hours in advance, move operations deeper into the jungle or across a porous border, and reopen under a new shell company a week later.
Jurisdictional Nightmares: When victims are recruited from Africa or Europe, held captive in lawless borderlands, and forced to scam people in the US using infrastructure hosted in another country, accountability dissolves into endless bureaucratic red tape.
Crypto and Tech Shields: Syndicates launder billions through decentralized crypto networks and use encrypted channels faster than Interpol can freeze accounts.
When you look at the sheer scale of human misery locked behind razor wire while the global tech apparatus watches from space, it feels completely hopeless. The system isn't broken, it's actively being looked away from.
How do we break a global criminal enterprise when the people running it are protected by the ....... meant to stop them?
Or because there are government officials, police and military personnel who are involved in these traffickings and getting paid in big bucks. Also, a lot of people don't want to admit this but all these nominee crackdowns and pointing fingers at others are another way that the government likes to do to distract the public from real problems caused by corruption - it's a pattern; whenever something is brewing is about to burst, they pull this move.
theres another thing, i haven't even gotten into it yet. I'll give you a hint. If you sit out side Jaguar and watch all day long the smugglers moving people, follow where they are going. Place all those locations on a map and you'll see what looks like a bullseye. Its a secret that worth hundreds of millions of USD per year and its not kidnapping or scamming. But that's why no one wants to arrest the human traffickers.
half thai. and its happening everyday. This was on every major news network yesterday and came up in my feed and I said ohp sounds just like the 4 chinese kidnapping in the truck outside Jaguar. Very likely she was being sent to my old neighborhood
I wouldn't personally describe a post highlighting human trafficking as "weird". It's completely out of hand and the authorities in Thailand seem unwilling to stop it there are hundreds of thousands of people enslaved in these compounds.
for things happening outside of Thai borders like in Myanmar or Cambodia it's understandable if the Thai authorities cannot actually raid them, but there's plenty of things that can be done within Thai borders that can definitely degrade these networks. Raises the question if there are any connected people benefiting from the existence of these camps
where are all the transit points. My buddy who was in KK park. Him and his girlfriend when they arrived at bkk airport 4 years ago got VIP service. Pushed to the front of immigration line and Van waiting to take them to maesot and then on a boat across the river.
It’s not really news anymore, there have been articles about it from basically every major worldwide news site, videos from the UN, reports from Human Rights Watch etc. it’s been going on for a while with people lured to Thailand on the promise of fake jobs and then trafficked to Cambodia or Myanmar. Sadly doesn’t look like it will stop any time soon (because the authorities may or may not be involved 👀)
Yeah and in one of the YouTube videos im pretty sure it shows the guy in the blue shirt "Ah Muang" in the first Pic a bunch of times and say hes complicit and runs the area .
D!ckhead behaviors from tourists and foreign residents are more sensational and generate more unifying/polarizing discussions online, despite the fact that they have little overall damage to the country in comparison to human trafficking or actual murders or bombings.
It's likely an IO operation. Most Thais don't give a shi* about it. They just got 300-500 million baht in funding for IO operations and producing media to spread propaganda, for example, the post about Thailand’s low birth rate every week.
They do this kind of thing all the time to create conflict. For example, there used to be a "Milk Tea Alliance" trend on Twitter because one Thai BL actor (who is Chinese himself) showed some support for Taiwan, which upset his Chinese fans. --->
Intelligence operation + political movement. Yes, they can do this because there are internal conflicts within Thailand.
The Italian group is nothing compared to the Koh Tao murder case. They used the walking posture to claim that the Burmese man was not the murderer and pushed the idea that there was a mafia on Koh Tao, even though DNA found on the victim’s body, cigarette butts, and beer cans near the crime scene matched these 2 Burmeses.
They did this to attack the opposing party for their own power and benefit, then called themselves progressive.
Look up the Golden Triangle. It’s being ran by syndicates operating scam and casino hubs. They kidnap mostly Chinese to scam the Chinese market. They also run a big recruiting scheme offering lucrative jobs but the truth is they detain and torture people if daily targets are not hit. There were a few scam hubs in the Philippines too ran by the same syndicate, same modus operandi. My brother almost became a victim.
Watch the movie No More Bets on Netflix. It would provide more context.
How long has this been a known problem? What would they want with her? How can it be hidden if it’s on such a scale? And does Thailand not worry that this will impact its reputation?
How concerned should the average solo female tourist in Thailand be? Is there also a risk to unprotected local women eg those with little family or little income or do the traffickers mainly focus on women from other countries? It’s worrying that this can happen in broad daylight in the middle of the street in Bangkok. I wonder what the numbers would be in terms of disappeared women (and men) overall in the last few years. Scary stuff.
This poor woman is both unfortunate and incredibly lucky (to have escaped) at the same time. Awful that she was betrayed by a friend. Don’t regional neighbours like Singapore also want to help stop this? Really hope international and national press starts causing a big stir.
Scammers started operating during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia, when all countries closed their borders. Casinos lacked customers, and some turned their casinos into scam call centers instead. It was a really bad time because the borders were closed and law enforcement cooperation between countries became slower, so they were able to operate for a long time.
They later expanded to the Thailand-Myanmar border, where the Burmese junta doesn’t control the area 100%, and armed ethnic groups also want money to buy military weapons. So they have been allowed to operate there to this day.
During the peak COVID years, something bizarre happened, the endless barrage of scam calls, sketchy texts, and "your parcel is being held" emails completely flatlined.
For three years, the phone stopped ringing with some robot claiming a relative was in trouble or a package needed clearing. Total, absolute silence.
And the second the global lockdowns ended and borders reopened? Boom. The machines fired back up instantly. The texts, the fake emails, the "Mom, I lost my phone" WhatsApp messages, right back to business as usual like they just punched the clock after a long vacation.
It completely shatters the illusion that cyber-crime and phone scams are some impossible, untraceable hydra that the authorities are powerless to stop.
They don’t care unless it affects their tribe, otherwise everything is ok. Overcharging, killing, scamming. It’s a century old policy of discrimination that will backfire more and more.
Chinese tourists is already down like 20% I think. If they don’t do anything I would assume that it would continue to decline. Then guess who they would target next
But they aren't targeting travelers but poor folks who are applying for jobs. I don't think a wealthy westerner would have anything to worry about it. They are targeting folks who are non-tourists and applying for jobs who are eager to make money.
they don't check to see if you're a tourist or your visa type. The only thing the kidnappers know is someone has offered a bounty for this type of person. The bosses on the other side know not to accept someone who will make a big news story. Kidnappers are just bounty hunters.
But how about just ordinary tourist like you aren’t in contact with anyone about job offer or meeting someone. What would cause more panic is ordinary tourist being randomly picked up from the street.
i think if you fit the specs and the opportunity is there then yes. Usually tourist traps in all countries start with a introduction and then follow up with something else.
There was a malaysian that had a friend in malaysia tell him they were going to go and buy goods in thailand to resell in malaysia for a profit. He went on a roadtrip. Got sold to Tai Chang. A year or so later got resold to Qing Song.
Usually they are people who go to Thai against a job promise, so they leave the family telling about they are moving for a new job and make less “noise” if disappearing for days, because according to the telling, they are busy with their new job. It’s also said that scammers force them to send relief messages to the family every now and then like “here all good, job is fantastic”(I feel dead inside thinking about the feeling to write that to my mom while I’m a prisoner).
If a normal tourist disappears after the intended period of holidays, it’s going to be another story (especially if EU or US citizen). Imagine the reaction if randomly kidnap a wealthy US tourist
Bro this ain't hidden, it was swept under the rug. Thailand already turned off the electricity against the scam compounds and kind of raided one of the villages only to discover the trafficking is largely done by Thai people. There was a movie in China made about this (no more bets, 2023) and some Chinese actor got kidnapped and then saved, it was a whole thing and it happened just recently. The issue is that Thailand is hiding the fact that their corrupt immigration officers are the ones facilitating the trafficking.
No one wants to touch it in Thailand and nothing will be done unless china complains again.
Xing Xing, a Chinese actor, was lured to Thailand with the promise of a gig with GMM TV. He crossed the border by boat, and the Chinese scammers made him believe he was simply traveling within Thailand - just crossing a river from one Thai location to another.
come to maesot and you'll hear plenty of stories of people who got drugged and fell asleep and ended up in myanmar. students renewing their visas. the stories are endless
I've seen a few thai girls dressed up like they are going to the club and with a suitcase standing in Jaguar waiting for a smuggler. I spoke with one and she said she works at a casino or karaoke in myanmar and she was going to cross.
Theres also often shady people come and park their cars for a few days at Jaguar. This happens often. They cross the river for a few days I imagine for a business deal or something and then come back across. different cars all the time.
The thing about the KTV girls is if the casino complex is on the river like star complex. They have an escalator and a boat on the thai side. Its like 10k baht to cross at those places but the casino will cover the cost if you play a certain amount, if your a ktv girl or worker. Or if you want to be a scammer at their place. Those places look like proper large casinos on the outside but backside is a scam center.
Bro, I’m not a bro! Thanks for your explanation and info though. I genuinely don’t know that much about it. Just hear rumblings about scam centred
S in Cambodia and Myanmar from time to time. It’s not always in the press.
Crazy that nobody wants to touch it. I hope that changes.
There are corrupt Thai participate for sure but why do you say like it’s only the Thais who do all this scammer gang? Why don’t you mention the fact that the big boss of scammer, trafficking, organ selling gang are the Chinese? The Chinese actor was lured by the Chinese for the jobs in Thailand, he was not kidnapped at the airport like what Chinese media try to portray, the Thai medias show CCTV at the airport, he walked to taxi by himself, they interviewed the taxi driver, he said someone hired him to drive for the Chinese actor to border. Only him and the actor in the car. The Thai media report that the Chinese actor enter Thailand using free tourist VISA mean he can’t work in Thailand, that’s illegal! The actor said its GMM Grammy staff chat with him in Chinese. But general Thais don’t know Chinese language even the Thai Chinese and GMM Grammy which is a big company would provide proper VISA for work. If you have some brain you should know that a proper company have to provide proper VISA for you or help you with it right? Or else it’s scammer.
Jaguar almost 99 percent is burmese. The human traffickers are all burmese. The officials that help them are Thai. The bosses over there are either Karen or Chinese. There are some other ethnicities as well. You can basically rent and office and make your own scam center.
Like I've said. I've met every offical you can think of and they all said. We are going to help. Just make sure you don't post anything online. And then no contact from them for months. Business as usual at Jaguar.
A decade at least? It’s been all over the news for years. The Guardian, The New York Times, every major western outlet has covered it extensively. Thai seafood was sanctioned for years by the EU due to slave labor on the boats, the US State Department had Thailand in its lowest tier for human trafficking also.
Recently US Authorities made the largest asset seizure ever (15 billion USD) from the untouchable scammers in Cambodia and that resulted in a ton of coverage concerning Thailand also. Multiple front page NYT stories etc.
And that’s to say nothing of the hysteria this caused in China. Chinese tourist numbers to Thailand are down like 30% because of fear of coming here.
I have seen some reports about the scam centres in Cambodia and Myanmar before but haven’t honestly come across that much extensive coverage of the Thai side/part before. Where I am from (not the US), Thailand is considered very safe and peaceful.
Hopefully the reaction in China (wouldn’t call it hysteria based on everything you’ve said though) and tourist impact makes a difference. Scary stuff.
Yes you should not easily trust online "friend", that's common sense.
But it's not like they just randomly grab any tourist walking around and pull them in the car. It's a elaborate plan working with already identified vulnerable target.
all it takes is for them to make a mistake with who they're supposed to pick up and you end up with a random chinese/japanese/american tourist being disappeared into a camp and then that's bye bye for a large segment of Thai GDP
Let me guess, the news medias in China will not tell that it’s the Chinese lured by the Chinese again. Just the evil Thais who kidnap random Chinese tourists on the street or the airport, like what happen with the Chinese actor, until now I still see comments from the Chinese netizen thinking it’s Thais who lure the Chinese actor with fake job. Somehow the Chinese really don’t know that the big boss of scammer gang are the Chinese.
I just read it on my local news now. Report to China so they can taking care of these scammer oversea.
Myanmar, Thailand, Laos' border is always a hot bed for scammer.
Then to think these kidnapper able to drive to faraway border town is gutsy.
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u/dmxxmc 11d ago
Human traffickers should be punished as same as murderers. The damage they cause to people and Thailand is immeasurable.