Bangkok teen arrested for blackmailing 21 girls into explicit videos

Police yesterday arrested an 18 year old Thai man at his home in Bangkok for tricking at least 21 young girls into sending him explicit videos and blackmailing them.

Two Thai mothers brought their daughters to file a complaint against a Thai man, later identified as 18 year old Kanchai, at a police station in the northern province of Chiang Rai, and an arrest warrant was issued on Tuesday, November 12.

Chiang Rai police officers coordinated with Thailand’s Action Taskforce for Information Technology Crime Suppression (TACTICS) in Bangkok and successfully arrested the suspect yesterday. The arrest was made at his home in the Saimai district of Bangkok.

Kanchai was known among his friends and on social media as Gus Saimai. “Gus” is his nickname, and “Saimai” is the location of his home and where people found him causing chaos.

According to a report on ThaiRath, the two girls are cousins, one aged 13 and the other 14. They met Kanchai via Facebook applications but Kanchai used different accounts to contact the girls.

Kanchai talked to the girls until they trusted him and he then tricked them into sending explicit videos. Kanchai later posted the videos on his Facebook and Instagram accounts, demanding the victims pay him 100 baht if they wanted the videos deleted.

The girls did not have enough money, so they told their mothers, who filed a complaint leading to Kanchai’s arrest.

Kanchai confessed that he had done similar things to 19 other young victims but they did not dare to take legal action against him. Police searched his mobile phone and found 243 lewd videos of many victims.

In a similar case, a 32 year old Thai man, Phitsanu Jitklang, was arrested in October for blackmailing a 12 year old boy a dozen times with his naked pictures. The man managed to extort nearly 10,000 baht from the young victim before he was arrested.

In another high-profile blackmail case, a teacher blackmailed an 18 year old schoolgirl by posting her explicit pictures on social media platforms. The issue even led the young victim to attempt suicide but her plan was intervened in time.