Thai prime minister says she was nearly tricked by scam caller posing as another world leader
Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said she was nearly tricked by a scam caller posing as another world leader.
BANGKOK — Scam calls can target anyone, even the prime minister of Thailand.
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said this week that she had received a scam call from someone impersonating another world leader, whom she did not identify.
“I could hear clearly from the voice that it was the voice of the country leader,” she said Wednesday, adding that the caller may have used AI to fake the other leader’s voice.
It began with a voice message from the person asking how Paetongtarn was doing and saying they were looking forward to working together. She texted back that she was OK and the other person said they would get in touch.
The person later tried to call, “but fortunately it was 11 p.m. and I fell asleep and did not pick up the call,” said Paetongtarn, 38, who became the country’s youngest prime minister in August and is the daughter of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
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