DSI Conducted the Crack Down Operation on the Government Website Hacker Network, Relating to Online Gambling and Scammer Gang with Circulating Funds Over 20 Billion Baht

DSI Conducted the Crack Down Operation on the Government Website Hacker Network, Relating to Online Gambling and Scammer Gang with Circulating Funds Over 20 Billion Baht

On Thursday, November 6, 2025, at Santi Maitri Building, the Government House, Mr. Anutin Charnvirakul, Prime Minister and the Minister of Interior, presided over the signing ceremony of Memorandum of Understanding regarding the cooperation in cybercrime prevention and suppression as a war declaration to the scammers. A total of 14 agencies joined the signing and served as witnesses. Police Lieutenant General Rutthapon Naowarat, Minister of Justice, who prioritizes the public protection from cybercrime, particularly the scammers, assigned Police Major Yutthana Praedam, Director-General of the Department of Special Investigation, to jointly sign the Memorandum of Understanding, as well as affirm the determination to suppress the pivotal cases of online gambling and scammer network, ready to move forward with proactive protective measures.

On the same day, the Department of Special Investigation, through its Technology and Cyber Crime Bureau, has conducted an operation to investigate further on the network attacking the government websites in areas such as Trang, Phuket, Ratchaburi, and Amnat Charoen Province. The authorities discovered the clues related to the biggest online gambling network which holds the circulating funds earned from wrongful doings over 20 billion Baht.

According to the investigation result, the group of offenders hacked into the web server of the government website and inserted script files to redirect the access point from the government website to the gambling website. The insert was to create a “Backlink” to support the website rankings in Search Engine Optimization on Google. This results in the website becoming trustworthy and being placed in higher ranks of the search results. Citizens who access the government website for normal activities will discover banners with embedded online gambling advertisements and links which redirect them to the gambling website. Over 100 bank accounts, identified as mule accounts within the scammer network, were used to commit fraud and circulate money from online gambling. Consequently, this behavior not only caused the citizens to mistake the government website as supporting online gambling, but also caused the inability to access the government services normally, undermining public confidence in the nation’s data system.

The network was engaged in online gambling. After tracing the financial trail, it is shown that the trail was concealed by numerous mule accounts used for circulating the funds earned from online gambling. The financial transactions were made through cryptocurrency exchange system, which is a part of the scammer network. This behavior falls under the criminal offenses on unauthorized online gambling activities, money laundering, unauthorized access to another person’s computer system, unauthorized alteration of another person’s computer data, and allowing another person to use bank accounts for criminal activities.

Later on the same day, the authorities apprehended 3 suspects, namely, Miss Narinpawn (surname withheld), aged 23, and Mr. Pacharadanai (surname withheld), aged 19, who were arrested at Phuket Province; and Miss Ladda (surname withheld), aged 34, who was arrested at Amnat Charoen Province. The authorities had previously apprehended 14 suspects, making a total of 17 suspects out of 23, all of whom were responsible for both managing the mule accounts and handling the network’s finance. At the moment, the authorities are pursuing other accomplices following issued arrest warrants. The Department of Special Investigation will trace the victim’s financial trail and track down the network’s higher-ups accordingly.