Motorcycle taxi rider thought he was really the winner of a million baht prize

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

A motorcycle taxi driver went to computer crimes division police yesterday after thinking he had won a million baht.

 

Kittipong Sinsuksirisri, 55, a rider in the On Nut area, said he went home on Sunday and saw that he had been befriended on Facebook by the well known founder of Ichitan Group Tan Phasakornnathee.

 

He always liked Tan for his charitable works and believed he was a good guy. Though suspicious, he trusted him.

 

At 4am the next morning he got a messenger text allegedly from Tan saying he was the lucky winner of a million baht.

 

All he had to do was get 3,000 baht credit from True money and send it in and the windfall would be his within ten minutes.

 

Kittipong - who lives from day to day - explained he didn't have that kind of money in his pocket but he was told that he had to hurry or he would miss out.

 

So he borrowed it from friends.

 

The penny dropped when, after arranging for the 3,000 to be sent, he was asked for another 2,000 baht before the million was his.

 

He went to Ichitan HQ at the Charn Issara tower where they said it was a con and he should report it to the police.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

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Greed, greed and more greed!  Pillock!

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poor bugger, bloody horrible thing to do especially to someone as broke as this guy

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