Police bust network that allegedly cheated retired police major

By Jessada Chantararak 
The Nation

 

 

Police have arrested a group of 19 Thais and are hunting for a Taiwanese national for alleged involvement in operating a call centre that tricked a retired police major to deposit Bt1.5 million in their bank account.

 

Pol Maj-General Surachet Hakparn, deputy tourism police commissioner, said the Taiwanese man, who he identified as Chen Yuen Kai, was believed to be still in the country.

 

One arrested suspect, Paisal On-aim, 44, allegedly ran the operation and knew Chen from prison.

 

Surachet said Pol Major Jintana Suparb, 71, a former assistant nurse at the Police Hospital, alerted police earlier this month that she had been cheated out of Bt1.5 million. 

 

The scam was divided into three groups pretending to be policemen, post officials and people hired to open bank accounts.

 

 

Jintana said she received a telephone call on December 4 from a man who claimed that he was a post official in Phitsanulok province.

 

“The man claimed that I had mailed more than 30 bank books to a woman named Malee Insuk. He then said the money in the books came from money laundering.”

 

He then passed the line to a woman who claimed to be official at the Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo), who told Jintant to wire all the money in her bank accounts to her office for investigation, according to the retired officer.

 

She then went to Siam Commercial Bank’s Big C Sapan Mai branch and transferred the money to a bank account the “Amlo official” specified in three Bt500,000 tranches. After that, another person claiming to be an Amlo official called her, saying that he would transfer the money back to her the following day.

 

However, when Jintana told her neighbour about the transfer, her neighbour said she had been cheated and she notified police.

The 19 suspects will be charged with fraud and impersonating officials, while Paisal will also face a charge of transnational criminal activity.

 

Surachet added that there were 26 more suspects still on the run, five of whom were in a foreign country.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30334985

 

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17 minutes ago, webfact said:

He then passed the line to a woman who claimed to be official at the Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo), who told Jintant to wire all the money in her bank accounts to her office for investigation, according to the retired officer.

 

Wire it to me so I can investigate it????

 

Some folks need their brains examined to say the least. I guess it's no wonder I keep getting Nigerian scam letters in my spam folder.

 

Apparently scammers & the dupes they dupe will never go away.

Edited December 28, 20178 yr by jaywalker

Police bust network that allegedly cheated retired police major

 

and that was their mistake

Home grown 419 Nigerian scam, what seems to be TOO GOOD to be

true, it's probably is, but what can you do when greed gets in the way?....

Police Major???? And not even they can smell the scam. Can´t be easy to find good crime figthers here, I can clearly hear!

The police look aggressive. Due diligence out the window when you are on a sure thing. I wonder if the cash cow is dry? I got a good scheme, 100% return to me.

Edited December 28, 20178 yr by Chris Lawrence

No one asked where a poorly paid retired nurse got all that money?

21 minutes ago, Classic Ray said:

No one asked where a poorly paid retired nurse got all that money?

And why should they? She's 71. All those years of working, lump sum on retirement + pension could easily add up to this amount.

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Female Thai factory worker loses 300,000 in latest call center scam

 

Also sounds like the same mob.

Is Jintana...thick or stupid (both I think)...she was called by someone telling her that ..."I had mailed more than 30 bank books to a woman named Malee Insuk. He then said the money in the books came from money laundering.”

Well did she send 30 passbooks to Malee or not?...Sounds very much like she did.

If she didn't then this whole fiasco would have stopped right there and then...surely ?

More to this story than reported I think

10 hours ago, webfact said:

Pol Major Jintana Suparb, 71, a former assistant nurse at the Police Hospital, alerted police earlier this month that she had been cheated out of Bt1.5 million.

Off topic? Perhaps.

 

but... an “assistant nurse”.... with rank of Major... really?

 

the assistant toilet cleaner is a captain, but he could smell s***, when he saw it, so he never got scammed.

10 hours ago, webfact said:

wire all the money in her bank accounts to her office for investigation

Just making sure those bahts actually came from giving sponge baths.

Yes. Send an enormous amount of money to a stranger because of a phone call. Retard. Nuff said.

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On 12/29/2017 at 4:58 AM, jaywalker said:

 

Wire it to me so I can investigate it????

 

Some folks need their brains examined to say the least. I guess it's no wonder I keep getting Nigerian scam letters in my spam folder.

 

Apparently scammers & the dupes they dupe will never go away.

"You can't fix stupid"...Jeff Foxworthy