Big Joke busy again! Busting fake guides and a scammer with a rip off TAT course

[webfact]

Big Joke busy again! Busting fake guides and a scammer with a rip off TAT course

 

Picture: Tourist Police

 

Crime buster Surachet Hakpal was the main man as a 56 year old Thai called Sanguan "Daeng" Netsao was arrested by his tourist police bureau comrades on Saturday.

 

"Daeng" was found in possession of fake guide documentation, fake educational diplomas and fake driving licenses among other evidence.

 

The case came to light after a woman called Ketsa Dalek was arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport on March 19th with fake guide ID.

 

This led to Daeng who had offered her and others a whole course pretending that it was under the auspices of the Tourism Authority of Thailand.

 

But it was just a sham.

 

Those that "passed" had to pay 20,000 for the course but some who failed the course were fleeced of up to 200,000 baht that Daeng said was under the table money to be paid to officials.

 

He was arrested on a warrant for fraud and making fake documents issued by the Samut Prakarn court.

 

Picture: Tourist Police

 

Surachet - known in the Thai media as Big Joke - is the deputy commissioner of the tourist police bureau and has been busting everyone from romance scammers to call center gangs in recent months.

 

The other week he was seen on national TV in the Sanam Luang area of Bangkok busting fake guides.

 

Details of the latest case were on the TPB website along with many other officers who worked on the case.

 

Source: Tourist Police

 

 

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[YetAnother]

14 minutes ago, webfact said:

fleeced of up to 200,000 baht that Daeng said was under the table money to be paid to officials.

well then, go get them

[JOC]

This guy is clearly not a "Big Joke"

Going after and arresting a fellow officer.....Unheard of in the Land of Corruption,,,,

Well done....!!

[lemonjelly]

Ask him if the Grand Palace is closed today and does he know of any great gemstone deals..... bet those scammers are still under the radar


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[petermik]

Put him in charge of Prawit,s watches case and the never ending "lottery" debacle and we,ll see how good he really is 

[colinneil]

6 minutes ago, lemonjelly said:

Ask him if the Grand Palace is closed today and does he know of any great gemstone deals..... bet those scammers are still under the radar


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Certain scammers are obviously being protected by someone high up the chain.

The scammers you mention have been at it for years, yet nothing is done about it.

[coulson]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

but some who failed the course were fleeced of up to 200,000 baht that Daeng said was under the table money to be paid to officials

I take it most people somehow failed 

[Misterwhisper]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

"Daeng" was found in possession of fake guide documentation, fake educational diplomas and fake driving licenses among other evidence.

He probably also was dressed in a fake Lacoste polo shirt and wore fake Levis jeans, fake Nike sneakers, fake Calvin Klein briefs and a fake Rolex wristwatch. He possibly was running fake Windows 95 software on his Chinese knock-off notebook, while his wallet could've contained  a couple of fake Viagra pills After his arrest he might have tried to placate the officers with a fake smile and by performing a fake "graab" at their feet. The only thing genuine about him was... well... him; and even about that Surachet and his team of crime busters might not have been too sure.

[stanleycoin]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

fake guide documentation, fake educational diplomas and fake driving licenses among other evidence.

What's new,   this is standard behaviour in Thailand now days.

[jenny2017]

 

  I feel much safer now since biggest joke makes his rounds....

[Bluespunk]

1 hour ago, JOC said:

This guy is clearly not a "Big Joke"

Going after and arresting a fellow officer.....Unheard of in the Land of Corruption,,,,

Well done....!!

Where does it say he did that?

 

Was the guy arrested in the tourist police?

Edited March 26, 2018 by Bluespunk

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

He actually arrested a Thai instead of more "dark skinned" foreigners????

 

Well, will wonders never cease!!!!

 

That's one down, how many more to go???

[Lupatria]

I wonder how "Big Joke" can afford to employ a huge PR team to operate in his favor on his salary.  

Edited March 26, 2018 by Lupatria

[Somchai Logic]

4 hours ago, petermik said:

Put him in charge of Prawit,s watches case and the never ending "lottery" debacle and we,ll see how good he really is 

And how long he lasts 

[jenny2017]

3 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Where does it say he did that?

 

Was the guy arrested in the tourist police?

Please don't be so hard on him.....

[Somchai Logic]

3 minutes ago, jenny2017 said:

Please don't be so hard on him.....

Do you mean "Lead"??? 

[grumbleweed]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

and fake driving licenses

Why the hell fake driving licences?

What's the point when they already give them to anyone with a pulse

[jenny2017]

1 minute ago, Somchai Logic said:

Do you mean "Lead"??? 

[jenny2017]

4 hours ago, JOC said:

This guy is clearly not a "Big Joke"

Going after and arresting a fellow officer.....Unheard of in the Land of Corruption,,,,

Well done....!!

No, he's not a Big Joke. He's the Biggest Joke. 

[JOC]

3 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Where does it say he did that?

 

Was the guy arrested in the tourist police?

 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Crime buster Surachet Hakpal was the main man as a 56 year old Thai called Sanguan "Daeng" Netsao was arrested by his tourist police bureau comrades on Saturday.

I misread the above quote.....

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

1 hour ago, jenny2017 said:

Please don't be so hard on him.....

 

Quote

Crime buster Surachet Hakpal was the main man as a 56 year old Thai called Sanguan "Daeng" Netsao was arrested by his tourist police bureau comrades on Saturday.

 

Let's just say, the sentence wasn't organized especially well in grammatical terms.

 

The "his" is normally going to refer back to the closest prior "him", which in this sentence is Daeng the alleged scammer, not Hakpal. Hence the inference that the scammer is a policeman who was arrested by his police comrades, which apparently is NOT the case, notwithstanding quoted sentence.

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

1 hour ago, Lupatria said:

I wonder how "Big Joke" can afford to employ a huge PR team to operate in his favor on his salary.  

 

He must be bucking for the big national police chief job, in which case, all the "dark skinned" people had better watch out!!!

[peperobi]

And again, I think this guy is a publicity exhibitionist.

[Happyman58]

6 hours ago, jenny2017 said:

 

  I feel much safer now since biggest joke makes his rounds....

yes he is proving he is no joke

[observer90210]

Make him dress as a tourist with luggage and board a taxi at arrivals in Suvarnabhumi and let the "NO METER" fun start !!