Thai police bust call scammers who swindled...
Police arrested 21 suspects from what they said was an international gang that operated call centers across Thailand to deceive older Americans into wiring them money.
Cookstown is a small town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the fourth largest town in the county and had a population of 11,599 in the 2011 census. It, along with Magherafelt and Dungannon, is one the main towns in the Mid-Ulster council area. It was founded around 1620 when the townlands in the area were leased by an English ecclesiastical lawyer, Dr. Alan Cooke, from the Archbishop of Armagh, who had been granted the lands after the Flight... Show more of the Earls during the Plantation of Ulster. It was one of the main centres of the linen industry west of the River Bann, and until 1956, the processes of flax spinning, weaving, bleaching and beetling were carried out in the town. Cookstown's famous main street, is 1.25 miles long and 135 feet wide, one of the longest, and widest in Ireland.
Police arrested 21 suspects from what they said was an international gang that operated call centers across Thailand to deceive older Americans into wiring them money.
A Sydney man has been arrested, allegedly trying to flee the country after being involved with a million-dollar crime syndicate.
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