PATTAYA: A businesswoman severely injured herself with a knife early Sunday morning, reportedly due to stress after losing 800,000 baht to a call scam.
According to police, rescue workers found the 35-year-old woman, whose name was withheld, with about 10 stab wounds in her neck, abdomen and wrist at her house in Arunothai 9 Road at 12.16am.
She received first aid and was rushed to hospital. At the house, police found a blood-stained keychain knife.
A relative of the woman told police that about a year ago a call scam gang pretended to be Chon Buri police and told her that she had violated prostitution-related laws. The gang told her that they had to impound her money.
The woman then transferred a total of 800,000 baht to the gang. The sum included money she had borrowed from relatives and friends.
After realising she was a scam victim, she filed a complaint with police. As she could not retrieve the money over the past year, her stress levels rose and she eventually hurt herself.
