Thailand's Pattaya initiates large-scale lockdown on Chinese bank cards, tightening control measures fully underway.

Recently, a large-scale lockdown of Chinese people's bank accounts occurred in Pattaya, Thailand, attracting widespread attention. It is reported that this wave of "account freezing" is not an isolated incident, but stems from a case disclosed by the Thai police recently, involving a bank employee assisting a fraud gang in illegally opening accounts.

It is known that the case involves more than a hundred suspicious accounts, all highly associated with cross-border telecommunications fraud activities, and has now become the core target of Thailand's financial regulation and law enforcement actions. After the incident was exposed, the banking system began a large-scale inspection of accounts of non-local legal identity users, with the Chinese community being the most affected and becoming the focus of scrutiny.

This move is also seen as a direct reflection of the Thai government's new attitude of "zero tolerance" towards cross-border money laundering and fraud accounts, and the intensity of subsequent tightening may continue to escalate.