Japanese police have arrested 15 suspects transported from Bangkok in connection with a large-scale phone scam involving what is believed to be hundreds victims.

The 15 Japanese men in their 20s to 50s arrested Friday are suspected of having called people across Japan from a rented luxury house in the Thai beach resort city of Pattaya.

The callers are believed to have told the victims they had failed to pay subscription fees for a website. They are suspected of swindling more than 200 people out of over ¥200 million in total