Cameroon men arrested as alleged ‘Black Money’ gang members

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Cameroon men arrested as alleged ‘Black Money’ gang members

By The Nation

 

 

Police have arrested two Cameroon men for having swindled a man from Oman out of Bt4 million worth of Omani banknotes.

 

Pol Maj-General Maitree Chimcherd, commander of the Crime Suppression Division (CSD), told a press conference on Wednesday that Pierre Alain Gandjui and Jean Robert Kongne were arrested on Tuesday.

 

The arrests were made a day after the Omani victim filed a complaint with the CSD on Monday that he had been a victim of a “Black Money” gang that stole 50,000 Omani rials from him.

 

 

The victim, who police did not name, said he was cheated in late January but only decided to file a complaint with police on Monday. The victim said the gang had an Omani man as an accomplice.

 

He said the Omani businessman contacted him and said that he wanted to sell him 5 kilograms of gold for Bt4 million. But, when they met, the Omani businessman changed his mind and said he wanted to sell 15 kg of gold for Bt12 million.

 

The victim said the Cameroon men, who were present, told him that they could use special ink and paper to make copies of the rial banknotes.

 

The con artists took a 200-rial note from him and placed it on a piece of white paper that had been cut to the same size as the bank note. They were wrapped together in foil and then put into some black ink. After 10 minutes, the con artists unwrapped the foil to show that the white paper had become a rial banknote.

 

The victim then agreed to give 50,000 rials to the con artists to use the same process. The Cameroon men appeared to wrap the bank notes in foil and wrap white paper in another bundle and put them into the black ink tank.

 

The victim was told to wait overnight, and the conmen would return to add more ink.

 

The victim said the Cameroon men disappeared and he could not contact anyone. It turned out that the conmen managed to switch real money with a bundle of white paper.

 

Maitree said the CSD investigated and found that the gang had four members but two other members had fled the country. He said records showed that the gang members had entered Thailand several times and there could be more victims.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30343934

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-04-25

[Kieran00001]

The 'victim' who paid to make the fake money should also be charged, just like the 'victims' of scams who send their money to try to get more when the email made clear that the money they would be getting was far from legal, often the proceeds of corrupt regimes and war mongers, the scammers use people greed to persuade them into becoming criminals, so they are the most at blame, but anyone taking part is also guilty and should be charged regardless of their loss.

[AGareth2]

greed!

[worgeordie]

They are still finding people to con,with that very old scam,

i guess its true,there must be one born every minute.

regards worgeordie

[AhFarangJa]

The Omani moron is just as guilty, but he should be arrested for nothing else than being as dumb as a bag of bolts for falling for it .....

[sammieuk1]

Sounds more like a magic show reading this now you see it now you don't story.

[wvavin]

Don't blame anybody else if the victims themselves are not greedy. 

[NextStationBangkok]

Still some believe in this kind of scam ?

Even small kids knew it is foolish game.

Believers deserved to be cheated.

[clash]

scouser shirt. how very apt

[RichardColeman]

17 hours ago, webfact said:

The Cameroon men appeared to wrap the bank notes in foil and wrap white paper in another bundle and put them into the black ink tank.

Are people really this gullible ? Makes me wonder how someone that gullible managed to amass 4 m baht

[Benmart]

41 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

The Omani moron is just as guilty, but he should be arrested for nothing else than being as dumb as a bag of bolts for falling for it .....

If I had been arrested for the "dumb things" I have done in my 67 years, I would still be in prison. I prefer not to castigate people for unwise decisions that get them into trouble. Keeping my side of the street clean and being grateful that I am free from being an appointed judge is what matters to me. That being said, people are free to label and categorize others as they wish.

Edited April 26, 2018 by Benmart

[BigC]

I knew david  Cameron was up to no good 

[ThailandLOS]

This story is about two criminals acting together and there's no victim. The arab who reported his failed counterfeit endeavor to the police (after thinking long and hard about it for 3 months)  just highlights the level of stupidity.

[Benmart]

22 minutes ago, NextStationBangkok said:

Still some believe in this kind of scam ?

Even small kids knew it is foolish game.

Believers deserved to be cheated.

So glad I have not been ordained to deside who deserves what. I leave that to others with unblemished lives.

[Benmart]

15 hours ago, worgeordie said:

They are still finding people to con,with that very old scam,

i guess its true,there must be one born every minute.

regards worgeordie

I was one of those "born every minute", and most people that I have met confide likewise. Thank goodness that error and age has made me more aware and wary of offers that are too good to be true. Pax.

[Ketyo]

Some people will believe anything .... but when a couple of Africans ask you for 4m Baht... how stupid do you have to be to give it to them

[sjbrownderby]

16 hours ago, Kieran00001 said:

The 'victim' who paid to make the fake money should also be charged, just like the 'victims' of scams who send their money to try to get more when the email made clear that the money they would be getting was far from legal, often the proceeds of corrupt regimes and war mongers, the scammers use people greed to persuade them into becoming criminals, so they are the most at blame, but anyone taking part is also guilty and should be charged regardless of their loss.

What could you charge him with? Although he was fooled into thinking he could make more money the perpetrators did not actually have the means to re-produce banknotes, counterfeit or otherwise, so he could hardly be said to be conspiring. It was all sleight of hand and the Omani guy fell for it. 

[dave moir]

16 hours ago, worgeordie said:

They are still finding people to con,with that very old scam,

i guess its true,there must be one born every minute.

regards worgeordie

Greed is an amazing thing!!?

[Rob5lax]

The trickery magic is strong with th Black Money posse

[Kieran00001]

44 minutes ago, sjbrownderby said:

What could you charge him with? Although he was fooled into thinking he could make more money the perpetrators did not actually have the means to re-produce banknotes, counterfeit or otherwise, so he could hardly be said to be conspiring. It was all sleight of hand and the Omani guy fell for it. 

 

Of course providing the money to copy is conspiring, what on earth were you thinking there?

[sjbrownderby]

1 minute ago, Kieran00001 said:

Of course providing the money to copy is conspiring, what on earth were you thinking there?

I was thinking that the money was not actually being copied. He was conned into believing it was. Explain to me how that can be a conspiracy. 

[gk10002000]

ban them all.  Report the Omani to Omani officials.  let them decide his fate.  I suspect the penalties could be very severe in Oman for faking currency.  Of course ban the Africans.  Not sure it is worth the time and money to put them in the Thai jail.  Not that it costs the Thais much money.

[clash]

1 minute ago, gk10002000 said:

ban them all.  Report the Omani to Omani officials.  let them decide his fate.  I suspect the penalties could be very severe in Oman for faking currency.  Of course ban the Africans.  Not sure it is worth the time and money to put them in the Thai jail.  Not that it costs the Thais much money.

as far as i know it costs them next to nothing. they aren't getting 3 meals a day unless they pay for it and they don't care about overcrowding

[sjbrownderby]

1 minute ago, gk10002000 said:

I suspect the penalties could be very severe in Oman for faking currency. 

They weren't faking currency! Nowhere in the article does it claim that. It was a con and someone fell for it. In fact you seem to have fell for it too. 

[Lobber]

the <deleted> is wai-ing LOL

[gk10002000]

2 minutes ago, sjbrownderby said:

They weren't faking currency! Nowhere in the article does it claim that. It was a con and someone fell for it. In fact you seem to have fell for it too. 

The Omani guy was trying to buy into the process of making/counterfitting Omani Rials.  How did you not get that from the Omani's own admission?  Then he was conned out of the money from the fake process, but the point is the Omani admitted he was going to pay for the process!

[0815]

Put the Omani's in jail and pay the Africans a reward for the magic show...

[Bluespunk]

20 hours ago, webfact said:

The con artists took a 200-rial note from him and placed it on a piece of white paper that had been cut to the same size as the bank note. They were wrapped together in foil and then put into some black ink. After 10 minutes, the con artists unwrapped the foil to show that the white paper had become a rial banknote.

 

The victim then agreed to give 50,000 rials to the con artists to use the same process.

A fool and his money are soon parted

Edited April 26, 2018 by Bluespunk

[sjbrownderby]

1 minute ago, gk10002000 said:

The Omani guy was trying to buy into the process of making/counterfitting Omani Rials.  How did you not get that from the Omani's own admission? 

They made him believe that they could carry out what would be an illegal act, if they could actually do it.........but they could not. The whole point of this was to make the Omani guy believe that they could do it. In that they succeeded by showing what was in essence a conjuring trick. There may have been an element of 'mens rea' but there was no element of 'actus reus' and to establish that it must be proved that the accused person was responsible for an act prohibited by criminal law. He allowed himself to be conned by a number of persons using trickery, which makes him the victim. He could not be said to be conspiring because he was the 'mark' in this and was not a party to the whole point of the con.

[gk10002000]

1 minute ago, sjbrownderby said:

They made him believe that they could carry out what would be an illegal act, if they could actually do it.........but they could not. The whole point of this was to make the Omani guy believe that they could do it. In that they succeeded by showing what was in essence a conjuring trick. There may have been an element of 'mens rea' but there was no element of 'actus reus' and to establish that it must be proved that the accused person was responsible for an act prohibited by criminal law. He allowed himself to be conned by a number of persons using trickery, which makes him the victim. He could not be said to be conspiring because he was the 'mark' in this and was not a party to the whole point of the con.

You are crazy if you believe that the Omani officials would think like that.