Police raided a call centre scam hub that allegedly caused millions of baht in damages in Thailand.

Provincial Police Bureau Region 1 stormed the condominium said to be the base of an call centre crime ring in the Huai Khwang area of Bangkok on December 17.

They found three SIM boxes but no suspects were at the scene.

Police Major General Chayanon Meesati, deputy commissioner of the Provincial Police Bureau Region 1, said the raid was part of an expanded investigation into scam groups in the Soi Ratchada 32 area and Nonthaburi province on the outskirts of Bangkok.

He said: 'The behaviour of the perpetrators is similar in all three locations. The suspects use the names of Vietnamese and Taiwanese people to check into rooms, but they do not stay. They will install CCTV cameras and SIM boxes before leaving the country. They will only return to make repairs.'

The SIM boxes were reportedly used to disguise international numbers as local ones. One box contains 128 SIM cards each capable of making 7,000 calls per day.

While the CCTVs were installed to monitor the condition of the SIM boxes remotely. The devices have been seized and taken to the Huai Khwang Police Station for further inspection.

Police Major General Worachat Saenkham, superintendent of the Provincial Police Bureau Region 1 investigation division, said the suspects had scammed victims across multiple provinces, including Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan, Chiang Mai, and Satun.

They were said to have fled Thailand as police ramped up call centre crackdowns in Thailand.

On December 14, cops nabbed Thai housewife Parichat, 40, for allegedly defrauding British beauty queen Charlotte Austin, 25, out of 93,000 GBP.

The suspects were said to have posed as Thai police and implicated the Brit in a money laundering case involving a company called Stark Corporation.

They told her to send four million baht (93,000 GBP) 'to prove her innocence', promising to return the funds after the verification process. Charlotte obeyed and wired the cash over three transactions but her money was never returned.

Parichat was reportedly working with a Chinese-run crime ring based in Cambodia.