泰国移民警察局30分钟解救19岁中国留学生：家人遭勒索200万元并被威胁砍断手臂
泰国移民警察局表示，11月14日，该局快速反应小组在芭提雅一家酒店内解救了19岁中国留学生于轩（Yu Xuan），从中国警方发出紧急协助请求到把人安全带出只用了约30分钟；这名在澳大利亚新南威尔士州读书的学生此前被一个电话诈骗团伙诱骗到泰国，其家人遭勒索200万人民币、约合1000万泰铢，并被威胁砍断他的手臂。
移民警察局局长 Noppasin Pulsawat 中将说，11月14日上午约11时，学生的父母收到儿子发来的一段6秒视频；约13时，有人用这名学生的微信账号向家人索要200万人民币，限两小时内付款，否则其子将有危险。家人随即向中国警方报案，中国警方核查发现这名学生已于11月13日进入泰国，并紧急向泰国移民警察局请求协助。
Noppasin 把这次请求定为危及生命安全的紧急任务，命令移动快速反应小组赶赴春武里府芭提雅。行动由移民警察局多名高级警官督导，小组人员比对入境记录与酒店登记，追踪到这名学生所在的酒店，把他安全带出，他没有受伤。警方初步判断，这是一个跨国电话诈骗团伙先把这名学生诱骗到泰国、再利用他向家人施压的「虚拟绑架」式勒索。
泰国移民警察局说，对联系家人的团伙网络的调查仍在继续。这类以在海外读书的留学生为目标、先切断其与家人正常联系、再伪造险情勒索家人的手法，近年来在多国出现。
（来源：泰国移民警察局）
Thai Immigration Rescues 19-Year-Old Chinese Student in Pattaya Within 30 Minutes After Family Got a 2 Million Yuan Ransom Demand and a Threat to Cut Off His Arm
Thailand's Immigration Bureau said its rapid-response team rescued Yu Xuan, a 19-year-old Chinese student, from a hotel in Pattaya on November 14, bringing him out safely within about 30 minutes of an urgent assistance request from Chinese police. The student, who studies in New South Wales, Australia, had been lured to Thailand by a call-centre scam network, and his family had received a ransom demand of 2 million yuan, about 10 million baht, with a threat that his arm would be cut off.
Immigration Bureau Commissioner Pol. Lt. Gen. Noppasin Pulsawat said the student's parents received a six-second video from their son at about 11 a.m. on November 14. At about 1 p.m., someone using the student's WeChat account demanded 2 million yuan within two hours and warned that the son would be in danger. The family reported the case to Chinese police, whose checks showed the student had entered Thailand on November 13, and who then urgently asked Thai immigration police for help.
Noppasin classified the request as an immediate life-safety mission and ordered a mobile rapid-response team to Pattaya in Chon Buri province. Senior Immigration Bureau officers oversaw the operation; the team cross-checked arrival records and hotel registries, traced the student to a Pattaya hotel and brought him out safely and unharmed. Police believe a transnational call-centre gang lured the student to Thailand and then used him to pressure his family, a pattern known as virtual kidnapping.
The Immigration Bureau said the investigation into the network that contacted the family is continuing. Schemes of this kind, which target students studying overseas by cutting their normal contact with family and staging a fake emergency to extort money, have appeared in several countries in recent years.
(Source: Royal Thai Immigration Bureau)
来源：泰国移民警察局
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图片来源：图：泰国芭提雅海滩路一带资料图，事发酒店位于芭提雅。照片：Vyacheslav Argenberg 摄，CC BY 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: File photo of Pattaya Beach Road, Thailand; the rescue took place at a Pattaya hotel. Photo by Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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