Fake US soldier cons Nakhon Si Thammarat woman out of Bt690,000

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Fake US soldier cons Nakhon Si Thammarat woman out of Bt690,000

By The Nation

 

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An online romance with a man claiming to be an American soldier in possession of a fortune seized from Islamic State militants has cost a woman in Nakhon Si Thammarat Bt692,000.

 

Marasee Thanaprasitchai, 56, filed a complaint with Thasala district police after the con artist called her via Facebook urging her to wire him a final instalment of Bt140,000, ostensibly to cover expenses entailed in sending her three bags filled with US dollar notes.

 

Marasee, a resident of Tambon Thakheun, had by then sent Bt692,200 in 11 instalments to the man who used the name John Walsh, communicating with him in Thai text chats.

 

On April 4, “Walsh” told her he’d seized three bags from IS combatants containing more than Bt100 million in cash and offered to send them to her because he would be breaking US laws if he kept the money.

 

Marasee transferred Bt10,000 to a purported shipping firm with the unimaginative name Express, then was told to wire more to a logistics firm called Delivers Company and to a Thai woman identified as Phawinee Torsee to cover the cost of Customs clearance.

 

When a final request for another Bt140,000 came, along with a promise that it would be the last before she received her “windfall”, Marasee finally said no and told “Walsh” she was going to the police.

 

He immediately ended the conversation on Facebook.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30344011

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-04-26

[darksidedog]

I wonder if "Mr. Walsh"has a Nigerian accent?

[Just1Voice]

3 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

I wonder if "Mr. Walsh"has a Nigerian accent?

Ohhhh, I'd say the odds on that are about 99.9999% lol

 

[Darcula]

10 minutes ago, webfact said:

Marasee finally said no and told “Walsh” she was going to the police.

 

So, has she been arrested for trying to launder terrorist financing?

[Xaos]

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[saakura]

They should arrest her for trying to help such illegal money transfers. In her greed for easy money, she lost whatever she had and is now complaining!

[connda]

This is a really well publicized scam, and yet women fall for it again, and again, and again. 

Marks and suckers.  The world is full of them.  And as long as there are marks and suckers, there will be scammers to fleece their wealth. 

[BEVUP]

Why would one send money to someone with 100 mil

[baansgr]

Thailand is 20 years behind the Western World. This kind of thing was news in the late 90s in Europe

[peperobi]

39 minutes ago, baansgr said:

Thailand is 20 years behind the Western World. This kind of thing was news in the late 90s in Europe

Right, but even in our so forward-looking Europa have those peoples the chance to make a good business, "every day stand a stupid person up"!

[off road pat]

greed and stupidity are the best friends of any con artist !!!

[peperobi]

I get nearly every 3/4 weeks some offer like that, sometimes I'm a lucky lottery winner, one time even FB lottery winner and Mr. Zuch wrote via FB to me, the US soldiers are the most of, the last one offer me 40% of 20 Million US$ that he found in Iraq, thanks Capt. Tanner Noah.

Take care peoples no one give money just for fun and at the moment that you must spend some money is already clear this can be only a theft. 

I like to play with such peoples...

[digger70]

Karma for Greed     

[55Jay]

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

The last time we heard about this often-played scam, if memory serves, it was some skanky African guy pretending online to be a U.S. Army general of some sort. And the victim Thai women were eating it up....  Hard to believe, but true.

 

 

[55Jay]

Best case scenario, all in 100 Dollar bills, 100m would weigh just over 1 Ton!

 

[Just Weird]

 

 

12 hours ago, Darcula said:

 

So, has she been arrested for trying to launder terrorist financing?

Why would she be arrested for something that she didn't do?  There wasn't any terrorist money.

[Just Weird]

12 hours ago, saakura said:

They should arrest her for trying to help such illegal money transfers. In her greed for easy money, she lost whatever she had and is now complaining!

There weren't any transfers, illegal or not, what could she be arrested for?

[tingtongtourist]

notice every time with this,

they never mention the scammed Thai ladys profession?

 

surely you would need some smarts, some good business or family money,whatever, to have a spare 600k+ baht to throw around like this?

 

ok, its not a huge amount by farang reasonings

but really i must ask, how could a reasonably well-off thai lady with that much available free cash be so f!!!!!g dumb???

[Fish Head Soup]

6 hours ago, 55Jay said:

Best case scenario, all in 100 Dollar bills, 100m would weigh just over 1 Ton!

They may be $500 bills.

[saakura]

5 hours ago, Just Weird said:

There weren't any transfers, illegal or not, what could she be arrested for?

Arrested for, as mentioned, "trying to transfer" stolen money by illegal non banking means. Just like you would arrest someone for attempted murder or rape.

[overherebc]

Google Ebola Monkey Man to see the reverse.

[Jingjock]

I was getting 5 skype mails a day from Ghana, Nigeria etc. Not sure how they got my skype address. A few weeks ago I started blocking all of them, now finished, so news travels quickly over there

[Just Weird]

5 hours ago, saakura said:

Arrested for, as mentioned, "trying to transfer" stolen money by illegal non banking means. Just like you would arrest someone for attempted murder or rape.

There wasn't any stolen money to transfer!   

[pieeyed]

Maybe 6 years ago a thai lady friend was being scammed by a General in the U.S. Army based in Africa. Told her it was a scam, but she would not listen. She was relieved of some of her money before finally seeing the light. Do not know why some people after being told they are going to get ripped off have to fight back at you like they are right? In the end all I had to say was som num na.

[peperobi]

That email bellow I got yesterday:

 

Bank of America

115 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036, USA

From Desktop of Mr. Jeff Anderson

Our Ref: BOF-0XX2/987/20

E-mail:[email protected]

 

 

It is my modest obligation to write you this letter as regards the Authorization of your owed payment through our most respected financial institution (Bank of America). I am Mr. Jeff Anderson, TRANSFER INSPECTION OFFICER, foreign operations Department Bank of America, the British Government in Conjunction with us government, World Bank, united Nations Organization on foreign Payment matters has empowered my bank after much consultation and consideration to handle all foreign payments and release them to their appropriate beneficiaries with the help of a Representative from Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

 

As the newly Appointed/Accredited International Paying Bank, We have been instructed by the world governing body together with the committee on international debt reconciliation department to release your overdue funds with immediate effect; with this exclusive vide transaction no.: wha/eur/202,password: 339331, pin code: 78569, having received these vital payment numbers, you are instantly qualified to receive and confirm your payment with us within the next 96hrs.

 

Be informed that we have verified your payment file as directed to us and your name is next on the list of our outstanding fund beneficiaries to receive their payment. Be advised that because of too many funds beneficiaries, you are entitled to receive the sum of $14.5M,(Fourteen Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars only), as to enable us pay other eligible beneficiaries.

 

To facilitate with the process of this transaction, please kindly re-confirm the following information below:

 

 

1) Your Full Name:

2) Your Full Address:

3) Your Contact Telephone and Fax No:

4) Your Profession, Age and Marital Status:

5) Any Valid Form of Your Identification/Driver's License:

6) Bank Name:

7) Bank Address:

8) Account Name:

9) Account Number:

10) Swift Code:

11) Routing Number:

 

 

As soon as we receive the above mentioned information, your payment will be processed and released to you without any further delay. This notification email should be your confidential property to avoid impersonators claiming your fund. You are required to provide the above information for your transfer to take place through Bank to Bank Transfer directly from Bank of America

 

We Look Forward To Serving You Better.

 

Mr. Jeff Anderson,

TRANSFER INSPECTION OFFICER

Bank of America

[Just1Voice]

Two points. 

 

1. In Nigeria, they actually have schools set up to teach these various scams. 

 

2. Some years back a friend of my wife was all aflutter over an "American General" she met on line.  We tried to tell her it was a scam, and how it would work.  She got mad at us, saying we were just trying to ruin her happiness.  Three months, and almost a million baht later, she found out we were right. She came to apologize to us, then vanished.  We never heard from her again. 

[gk10002000]

isn't John Walsh the name of that host tv show that looks for fugitives from justice or missing persons and he himself had his kid snatched from a Sears store decades ago?

[thomash]

I asked a conman once how he justified doing what he was doing his response was: "If you are stupid enough to believe me then it is your fault."  I had never thought about it that way but he was actually right. 

[Fish Head Soup]

On 5/2/2018 at 1:01 PM, thomash said:

I asked a conman once how he justified doing what he was doing his response was: "If you are stupid enough to believe me then it is your fault."  I had never thought about it that way but he was actually right. 

He was actually right? Are you kidding me? I guess in you're world it's okay to con people with dementia out of their life savings too because it's their own fault for being so gullible.

 

You have shown yourself to be nothing more than a lowlife with no morals. Your family must be proud of how you turned out, though the fruit rarely falls far from the tree.