"Starboy" - top Nigerian scammer - among latest arrests in Thai PM's crackdown

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"Starboy" - top Nigerian scammer - among latest arrests in Thai PM's crackdown

 

Picture: Daily News

 

A top Nigerian scammer known in the black community as "Starboy" was arrested yesterday along with five friends all from the west African country.

 

Antonio Joscarlos, along with a Thai woman called Sukanya, had used a fake Facebook profile to con middle aged Thai men looking for love.

 

They used a picture of a beautiful female US soldier and pretended to be her - they were chatting to 38 men at the time of their arrest at JP Smart Condominium in Pak Kret.

 

Victims were persuaded in the "romance scam" to send money to their accounts.

 

Taken into evidence were a computer notebook, ten phones, bankbooks, cash and other valuables.

 

Also arrested yesterday were five friends of "Starboy" - all Nigerians - running investment scams tricking Thai couples. Three million baht in funds was found as part of this subsequent investigation.

 

The crime led to connections in Senegal.

 

Leading the crackdown ordered by prime minister Prayut Chan-ocha and deputy Prawit Wongsuwan is acting tourism police chief Surachet Hakpan who said that romance scams and bogus investment schemes were causing a lot of trouble for the country.

 

The former relied on those looking for love while the latter relied on people's greed.

 

All those arrested have been initially detained on fraud and false pretenses charges though Daily News reported that false imprisonment and assault may be added to the rap sheet for some of them.

 

The crackdown is targeting mostly those in the African community using tourism as a cover for illegal activities.

 

Source: Daily News

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-12-08

[ezzra]

Good riddance, scumbags, filth of the earth, and there're many of his ilk

wasting the air of this country, those maggots should be dealt with

with the harshest penalties under the law.. show no mercy....

[rkidlad]

If you’re looking for ‘love’, then look for love. Once people start mentioning cash, jewellery, iPhones and diamonds, etc, it becomes monetary. That’s not love. 

 

 

[Lammbock]

If I just could write down what I really want to say....

[darksidedog]

21 minutes ago, webfact said:

romance scams and bogus investment schemes were causing a lot of trouble for the country.

Causing trouble for idiots in the country would probably be more accurate, of whom sadly, there are plenty. It is the scum of the earth who prey on them, so I hope the cops find the rest of this scumbags crew and get rid of them all.

[worgeordie]

No wonder they set up in Thailand,plenty greedy people for the

financial scams,proven by the almost daily scams by Thais on

Thais,and horny old men for the "Love" scams,deport them and

just let the Thais scam their own.

regards Worgeordie

[tonray]

19 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

No wonder they set up in Thailand,plenty greedy people for the

financial scams,proven by the almost daily scams by Thais on

Thais,and horny old men for the "Love" scams,deport them and

just let the Thais scam their own.

regards Worgeordie

These scams are present in every country on earth, not limited to Thailand. Also same scammers working in Vietnamese usually duping women who are afraid of being branded 'old maids' by their families and community for being unmarried after age 30.

[Machiavelli]

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

Good riddance, scumbags, filth of the earth, and there're many of his ilk

wasting the air of this country, those maggots should be dealt with

with the harshest penalties under the law.. show no mercy....

1. Agreed. Seems like RTP is on to something these days. They have been netting romance and phone scammers,  kiddy diddlers(pedophiles), overstayers and fake passport holders, those running from the law(fugitives), losers selling Thai flags and wannabe Hells Angels thugs. All scum of the earth! Well done RTP. Keep going after these criminals. Whatever their race,  lock up and deport these losers! The kiddy diddlers send them to the hardest of the prisons. 

    
2.  

Edited December 8, 2017 by Machiavelli

[Thaiwrath]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Also arrested yesterday were five friends of "Starboy" - all Nigerians

More 'Bad guys out'  

Keep it up Thailand.

[anon789561]

 the BIB are on a roll . . . it's like someones stuck a firecracker up there <deleted>! good job. but when are they going to go for the 'real' fraudsters. hmmm. time will tell

[Tilacme]

2 hours ago, mikebell said:

Well what's stopping you?  I love TV because it's free speech in a land of repression.

Dubious assumption.

[leeneeds]

Monies found should buy the lonely men a good night out on the town, with all the trimmings,

being xmas spirit and all, 

[dotpoom]

4 hours ago, ezzra said:

Good riddance, scumbags, filth of the earth, and there're many of his ilk

wasting the air of this country, those maggots should be dealt with

with the harshest penalties under the law.. show no mercy....

Wow....that's telling 'em.

[OmarZaid]

BRAVO !

[Destiny1990]

Well those 5 African scumbags are surely going to get a nice long deserved overstay.

[car720]

5 hours ago, mikebell said:

Well what's stopping you?  I love TV because it's free speech in a land of repression.

Not always.

[SpeakeasyThai]

5 hours ago, ezzra said:

Good riddance, scumbags, filth of the earth, and there're many of his ilk

wasting the air of this country, those maggots should be dealt with

with the harshest penalties under the law.. show no mercy....

Maybe you should personally chop their balls off?

[SpeakeasyThai]

Just awful. And of course Thais are so vunerable as they never ripp foreigners off who stay in the land of fake smile.

[NextStationBangkok]

Why no fluorescent jacket, and a Rayban to cover the eyes ?

 

Also why no sofa, on the floor. Is this color discrimination ?

[les Dennis]

I was recently a victim of a scam and I dumped all the information the police needed to make an arrest on their desk but it appears I wasn't conned out of enough to make it worth their efforts.

http://vespaclassicobikes.com/product-category/lambretta/

This was advertised on baht and sold. They have been told twice but when I last checked they were still adverising on their website.

 

Edited December 8, 2017 by les Dennis

[BangkokReady]

5 hours ago, rkidlad said:

it becomes monetary. That’s not love. 

Unfortunately, there are legitimate types of relationship that follow this pattern. Usually involving a man over 50 and a girl around 20. It's obviously more about money (although the men may not think so for some reason), so there are people ripe for exploitation.

[Just Weird]

14 minutes ago, les Dennis said:

I was recently a victim of a scam and I dumped all the information the police needed to make an arrest on their desk but it appears I wasn't conned out of enough to make it worth their efforts.

http://vespaclassicobikes.com/product-category/lambretta/

This was advertised on baht and sold. They have been told twice but when I last checked they were still adverising on their website.

 

What was the scam?

[wvavin]

I would see myself banned in this forum if I were to write on these Nigerians!

[kiwikeith]

6 hours ago, ezzra said:

Good riddance, scumbags, filth of the earth, and there're many of his ilk

wasting the air of this country, those maggots should be dealt with

with the harshest penalties under the law.. show no mercy....

Because of the situation in a lot of poor countries they grow up as scammers.

Nigeria being one of the worst.

[sammieuk1]

Now doesn't that feel much better than chasing down bare arsed beach smoking vapours well done ... 

[The Deerhunter]

6 hours ago, Lammbock said:

If I just could write down what I really want to say....

How about; "Hopefully, just one of many, soon to be arrested and jailed, before deportation after bio metrics are taken."  (so they can't sneak back in.)

Edited December 8, 2017 by The Deerhunter

[richards]

6 hours ago, ezzra said:

Good riddance, scumbags, filth of the earth, and there're many of his ilk

wasting the air of this country, those maggots should be dealt with

with the harshest penalties under the law.. show no mercy....

Perfect!  I coundnt have put it better myself.

 

[bluesofa]

Another normal day in Thailand...police only do the job they're paid to do when the PM specifically tells them to.

Then it's described as 'a crackdown', rather than the ongoing fight against crime.

[les Dennis]

58 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

What was the scam?

Classic reconditioned scooters. They plagiarized a genuine website and professed to be operating from a Si Siket. 

[Nemesis7]

Good work RTP . Please ensure toughest punish ever.

there are many other scammers like blank magic : Pattaya Black magic master Ajran Koh scamming millions of bhat from foreigners in the mane of spells , let these bloody bastards be locked up.

well beside vulnerable foreigners falling for the traps there are many Thai’s involved they are so greedy they should be Taken in to account too.i have personally know a Thai mother who used to work in bar got married with German man moved to Germany leaning her other husband and kids back , gave birth to a daughter who is in her 20’s now and turned her in to a gold digger. And she keeps on chsinging boyfriend and trying to rip them off in the name of love . And the poor German man had a mysterious death right after few years of marriage .

and now that daughter is following the oath of her mother, being a German National tries to catch big fishes but unfortunately she is nothing but the same as her mother and hope to see karma treats her back the same way .

all these love scams destroys people’s lives and often end up losing their life’s savings .

and those who are behind such heinous acts must face the harsher punishment