Job seekers lose savings to fake 'accept orders' part-time jobs that demand bigger top-ups
One victim was recruited on Facebook and LINE, got small payouts, then in round three sent 5,000 baht for 60 orders as order values kept rising. The withdrawal never came and a fake service center demanded a 30 percent tax, leaving nearly 300,000 baht deposited. Another answered a Twitter ad for an 'admin' job, paid 100 baht, and was told to pay about 13,000 baht for items.
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Hardware and sensors
Offer Booth: a camera and printer kiosk that prints a verdict slip on a job offer
A job seeker holds the phone with the 'job' chat up to a Raspberry Pi camera. The kiosk reads the text and prints a receipt: 'pay-to-work, rising orders, withdrawal fee: do not pay', with the 1441 hotline. The slip is something to show a friend or family.
Build with Raspberry Pi, camera, thermal printer, Claude vision, Thai OCR
Voice and phone
Scam Hotline: call a number, read or speak the offer, and hear a verdict
Someone who prefers talking to typing, or whose aunt doesn't use chat apps, calls a number and speaks or reads out the offer. The line asks 3 short questions (did they ask you to pay first, did the order value rise) and replies with a plain Thai verdict.
Build with Twilio Voice, Whisper or Gemini speech-to-text, Claude, Thai TTS
AI agent
Freeze Now: reads your transfer slips and drafts the bank freeze request in minutes
A victim photographs the transfer slips. The agent reads every payee name and account, notices when the names differ across rounds, and drafts a bank freeze request and online police report text to send in the first hours, with the steps in order.
Build with Claude vision, Thai OCR, PDF generator, hotline 1441 steps
Web portal
Order Trap: play the scam in 5 minutes and feel round three coming
You play a job seeker doing 'orders'. Round 1 pays a small bonus, round 2 asks a bigger top-up, and in round 3 the fake service center demands a 30 percent tax. Real victim quotes appear as the stakes rise, so you learn the pattern by getting caught in it.
Build with Next.js, Claude (scripted scammer lines), animated chat UI
Data and maps
Account Watchlist: search a bank account or LINE ID before you pay
A shared database of reported receiving accounts and LINE IDs, seeded from public blacklist sites, lets anyone search before sending money. Reports show dates and amounts and add up repeat names.
Build with Public blacklist data, Supabase, Next.js search, Claude (normalizing names)
What people reported
Victim recruited via Facebook and LINE, small early payouts, third round of 5,000 baht for 60 orders with rising prices, blocked withdrawal, fake service center asked 30 percent tax, nearly 300,000 baht deposited.
pantip.comVictim answered a Twitter 'admin' job ad, paid 100 baht, then 350 baht, was told a mission bonus required more purchases, withdrew only a few hundred baht, then faced a demand for about 13,000 baht.
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