Cameroon men arrested as alleged ‘Black Money’ gang members

[BigC]

Can’t believe people are still falling for old scams 

 

people conned using their own greed

 

jesus There has been enough information and documentaries about black money scams

 

i agree the people should be arrested but I just can’t beleive with all the publicity people still fall for it

[shy coconut]

10 hours ago, ThailandLOS said:

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.

Maybe he was waiting for the guy to back with the ink.

"He'll be back tomorrow with the ink" he told himself every day for

3 months until he smelled a rat!

[Elkski]

What other scams do I need to learn about.   I've been offered to buy raw gold from the mine at some unknown % and then after it goes to the smelter and is 99.99% or whatever I can sell it for so much.  I asked for % ROI and time period and never could get answers to common investment questions.  Gal was mad I told her no thanks.  She accused me of calling her a scammer.  No I said I just don't want to buy gold.   She wasn't a lover.  

 

 

My dad fell for a scam once.  40 years ago  some colored guys in a big white caddy in Colorado asked him if he wanted to buy a big TV.  They were looking around as if worried about things.  They said come around back if the store to see.  Anyway they had two boxes.  A brand new small TV they took out of the box for him to look at. And they had another unopened bigger TV box. I guess they made the bigger TV the better deal.  They acted like they were hot TV's so my dad did was thinking he was buying stolen things.  When he got home and opened up the big box it had an old black and white TV in it. I guess they had done a good job closing the box.  He didn't call the cops.  I'm sure it was only 300-400$   Haha.   

[Garry]

Oman does not have 200 rial bank notes. Maximum denomination is 50 rials. 

[Garry]

On 4/26/2018 at 12:35 PM, Elkski said:

Gold Fever.  

 

How does the guy prove they took his 4 million?

 

Guy thought he was buying some cheap gold. Hot gold?  Then he is tempted into getting 3 times more gold. 

He never saw any gold but was distracted by the method.   

But he didn't watch carefully during the first test.  

 

Can you imagine his feelings the next afternoon when they didn't return with more ink?  There was a second of time when that con thought entered his happy greedy mind.  I bet he waited not wanting to mess up the process.  His mind wavered with hope and dread.  Then he took out his money.  Probably a bit of hope that the first bundle he grabbed was wrong!  Then two soggy blank paper bundles before him and whop!  He knew his stupidity.  Pretty good con.  He held off going to cops fir 3 months since he was trying to counterfit money in his home.   

He is a crook.   He was going to do something illegal with that money.  It was probably I'll gotten gain to start.    But the Cameroon men were greedy sticking around.   

At least he didn't jump off his balcony.   But what evidence do the cops have that a crime took place?

Another interesting point is that if this person took the equivalent of Baht 4m in Omani rials (49,000 ish), then he could be in deep doo doo with Oman authorities. Most every country has laws on the export of hard currency to stop money laundering & counterfeiting .

[gerard7]

Just amazing! 

how can people get scammed by this way? 

there have a big deep stupidity in this story. -_-" 
Even small kids know that is a foolish game... 
 

[Rhys]

Greed and idiocy

[BurgerGung]

A British OAP was swindled out of 50,000 pounds by a similar method. 

 

This may sound utterly racist, but a Nigerian friend, teacher-colleague, has been constantly involved in bizarre "business" transactions. One day, he wants help

 

i. $ 20 as a gift via Paypal

ii. then a seller of some rare cooking oil in Vietnam

iii. a hacker

iv. One day, he needed $ 2,000 urgently. when questions about collateral and the use of funds, he wouldn't give collateral, became offensive and claimed it was for a deal in snuff tobacco. Yeah, right. Smokers of the world, start putting tobacco up your noses! 

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One of his plays was to hit on a female employee at a European embassy. Guess she came clean to her superiors.

 

I was writing a letter of support for my own embassy and went to Bangkok with him. Only to learn later that he has been an asylum seeker with a history in Sweden?!? 

 

OT: These guys should head to Germoney. No papers? No problem! Enter the welfare state. then get German ID and voila, the way to the UK will be free.