Thai Tourist Police arrest Danish man over hotel-reservation scam

[webfact]

Dane arrested over hotel-reservation scam

By The Nation

 

 

Tourist police have arrested a Danish man for allegedly running a fraudulent hotel-reservation website that cheated more than 400 European travellers out of an estimated Bt20 million.

Tourist Police Bureau deputy commissioner Pol Maj Gen Surachet Hakpal announced on Wednesday that Jacob Holm Schultz, 43, had been arrested the day before at Nonthaburi’s Central West Gate shopping mall.

 

Officers had a warrant issued by the Criminal Court on April 28 charging Schultz and five Thais with deceiving the public and violating the Computer Crime Act by posting false information online.

 

 

Surachet said the warrant was requested after his bureau received complaints from a firm handling credit card payments and from several foreign tourists.

 

They claimed that the website vacasianhotel.com had tricked tourists out of their money when they booked stays at Thai hotels.

 

On arrival at their hotels, the tourists were told there had been no booking, forcing them to pay again for accommodation.

 

Surachet said the website, which has been operating for more than two years, was registered by Secure System Co Ltd, a firm owned by Schultz.

 

He alleged that the money collected through credit card payments went to the bank account of Chantee Lomsak, 36, who forwarded it to Schultz.

 

He said Schultz had entered Thailand in September on a tourist visa.

 

Police are hunting for the five alleged accomplices.

 

 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30329588

 

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[Thaiwrath]

He won;t be "bringing home the bacon" for quite a while !  

[off road pat]

Good work by the RTP,....I would suggest that he may be enjoying the cuisine at Bang Kwang for a very long time...555

Edited October 18, 2017 by off road pat

[tubby johnson]

Schultz? Not a very Danish surname.

[observer90210]

Good job from the Royal Thai Police!! .....

 

Such scumbag cheats deserve no clemency.

 

Who would appreciate having paid and reserved in advance to have their holiday ruined on arrival ?

 

Their sentence should be harsh enough to serve as  deterrrence for those with crooked minds who think Thailand is a safe haven for crime....

 

Lock up the cheat in Bangkok Hilton and no more Danish Butter Cookies for a while....

[Thechook]

And this Chantee had no idea what was going on?

[Machiavelli]

30 minutes ago, tubby johnson said:

Schultz? Not a very Danish surname.

It's a big world. 

[Kadilo]

“Vacasianhotel.com “ good name like


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[InMyShadow]

Greed! He could have left the country but no, like drug mules.. Just one more and I stop, promise.

Enjoy your 3rd grade boiled rice, they are pretty harsh on fraudsters in Thailand!

[wakeupplease]

vacasianhotel.com

 

What is going on here this domain name has never been registered so therefor it never existed as a website

 

Any idiot can check, except the BIB by the looks of things

 

is this a bib scam?

 

Try it yourself

 

https://www.whois.com

and

https://www.domainhistory.net

[ExpatOilWorker]

3 hours ago, tubby johnson said:

Schultz? Not a very Danish surname.

3,782 people have Schultz as surname in Denmark. The Germans must have left a few offspring when they invaded.

 

 

Edited October 18, 2017 by ExpatOilWorker

[mark01]

As long as he pays enough, he'll be out in a week.

[cyberfarang]

20 million baht in 2 years, that`s almost 1 million baht a month. WOW, one hell of a scam.

 

As I have said; foreign criminals would not be able to operate in Thailand without the collaboration of Thais. In my opinion his Thai accomplices are the worse criminals of the bunch. 20 million baht, he won`t get off this one with a 500 baht fine and a slap on the wrist. The Dane has had his bacon.

 

 

[InMyShadow]

The Thais will turn against him for either immunity or reduced sentence, depending on which canary sings first

[Formaleins]

If they spent as much time on catching criminals as they spend on their ridiculous "Power Point " presentations then I might agree that they did a good job. However, if you look at the expense and work that has gone into their little charade of professionalism with their stupid presentation, then to me these idiots are just wasting money. We need to see more people that have been ripped off being flown over to Thailand to have them point at the defendant, only then will justice have been served!

[Sonny Karlsson]

5 hours ago, tubby johnson said:

Schultz? Not a very Danish surname.

But Holm is.

[ThaiWai]

Any news on the 10000 I lost on Kaidee?  Hello...anyone....<crickets chirping>

[wakeupplease]

5 hours ago, observer90210 said:

Good job from the Royal Thai Police!! .....

 

Such scumbag cheats deserve no clemency.

 

Who would appreciate having paid and reserved in advance to have their holiday ruined on arrival ?

 

Their sentence should be harsh enough to serve as  deterrrence for those with crooked minds who think Thailand is a safe haven for crime....

 

Lock up the cheat in Bangkok Hilton and no more Danish Butter Cookies for a while....

Can you enplane to me how this website that has never been online as it has never been registered took money on line for hotel rooms

 

Something is very wrong here.

 

It takes 30 seconds to check and I did, you can buy the name right now.

[wvavin]

I believe police in this police station is having very high interest in this case after the 20 million baht was mentioned!

[ThaiWai]

2 hours ago, Kadilo said:

“Vacasianhotel.com “ good name like


 

Thank you for your inquiry.  Would you like to make a rezervayshun?

[wakeupplease]

3 minutes ago, wvavin said:

I believe police in this police station is having very high interest in this case after the 20 million baht was mentioned!

Someone needs to phone those cops and tell them to buy the website name, its on offer now and never been registered.

 

Register this domain for $9.88

Edited October 18, 2017 by wakeupplease

[gk10002000]

It's a fairly easy scam to do.  But time catches up with it as the complaints roll in.  As is often the case the fraudster keeps it going too long and gets caught instead of folding up the tent and moving on.  No sympathy here.  messing with somebody's vacation is really nasty.  People save and save and look forward to smooth sailing then run into this crap. 

[balo]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

vacasianhotel.com

 

Even if you don't see it as a registered domain , it could have been redirected to an existing website. It's not unusual for scammers to redirect websites . 

 

 

 

 

[chrisinth]

1 hour ago, wakeupplease said:

vacasianhotel.com

 

What is going on here this domain name has never been registered so therefor it never existed as a website

 

Any idiot can check, except the BIB by the looks of things

 

is this a bib scam?

 

Try it yourself

 

https://www.whois.com

and

https://www.domainhistory.net

Looks like it might be a bit of phishing as the guy was hosting on his own Secure System Co Ltd:

 

"Surachet said the website, which has been operating for more than two years, was registered by Secure System Co Ltd, a firm owned by Schultz."

 

Again, possibly not a .com but a .co.xx..................

[balo]

10 minutes ago, chrisinth said:

Again, possibly not a .com but a .co.xx..................

That's very likely. 

 

[wakeupplease]

 

8 minutes ago, chrisinth said:

Looks like it might be a bit of phishing as the guy was hosting on his own Secure System Co Ltd:

 

"Surachet said the website, which has been operating for more than two years, was registered by Secure System Co Ltd, a firm owned by Schultz."

 

Again, possibly not a .com but a .co.xx..................

Its not a .com for sure as all .com's are registered in the same place and easy to check and you cannot divert if you do not have the name to start with

 

But police say its a .com so what do they know as usual nothing as far as the web is concerned as I can vouch for.

 

The guy will walk free if they carry on with that name, and that is a real shame as those who use the web and con people should go down.

 

Last thought, it was not a FB scam using the name was it? Now thats a possibility.

[jacknorman]

2 hours ago, wakeupplease said:

vacasianhotel.com

 

What is going on here this domain name has never been registered so therefor it never existed as a website

 

Any idiot can check, except the BIB by the looks of things

 

is this a bib scam?

 

Try it yourself

 

https://www.whois.com

and

https://www.domainhistory.net

it not work the historysearch, i tried several of my domains it say no record or its only the new owners name

[RichardColeman]

In this country it seems you can murder, wave a gun about, rape, commit violent acts, fraud and bribery with impunity, but God help you if you mess with anything tourist related !  Well done RTP anyhow, i'm sure the TAT bonus is in the post

Edited October 18, 2017 by RichardColeman

[wakeupplease]

5 minutes ago, jacknorman said:

it not work the historysearch, i tried several of my domains it say no record or its only the new owners name

No history means no record

Try these

https://www.whois.com

For .com

https://whois.icann.org

 

https://uk.godaddy.com/whois

 

But .co.th Try

 

http://whois.marcaria.com/domain-whois/asia/Thailand-domain-TH

 

Or pm your names and I will give you owners in a few mins.

Edited October 18, 2017 by wakeupplease

[balo]

His company registered in Thailand is Net Secure System Co Ltd, with office address in Bangkok. 

website is in English :  www.netsecure.co.th

 

This guy seems to be some kind of IT security guy so he probably knows all the tricks in the book. 

 

 

Edited October 18, 2017 by balo