Pattaya shopping spree swindlers rounded up - two Myanmar women and three Chinese

 

Picture: INN

 

A gang of fraudsters buying goods in Pattaya with stolen debit cards from China has been arrested.

 

The Chinese used two women from Myanmar to buy goods at department stores in the resort.

 

Suspicions were not surprisingly aroused when the Myanmar couple kept coming back with new cards in Chinese names though they were unable to speak Chinese and had no passports with them.

 

Eventually a tip from an informant led to the arrest of the gang.

 

They are Miss Khin Khin Win, 27, and Miss Shine May, 18, from Myanmar and Chinese nationals Xie Zhi Ging, 28, Xie Fenge, 38, and Wang Yanyue, 22.

 

Taken into evidence were 121 "Union Pay" debit cards from China, 40,000 baht in cash, 19 SIM cards and phones.

 

Provincial bigwig Pol Maj Gen Nanthachart Suphamongkhon and Nong Prue station chief Pol Col Chitdecha Songhong announced the successful operation to nab the miscreants along with other local police.

 

CCTV footage gave the cops a leg up in the arrests.

 

Source: INN

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-07-13

The way things have been going lately the Chinese won't be lonely when they get to jail. 

Maybe the shops concerned should be prosecuted too; as a lesson to others and a warning to future behaviour.

121 debit cards from China.  That seems like a lot of stolen cards.  Stolen from who and where and when?  Did the gang gather them up in China, collecting them from a bunch of thieves there and bring the cards to Thailand?  That sounds a bit odd, since I would expect if they came from individual people, those people would have called their banks, suspended the cards, etc, and by the time the cards got to Thailand they would be useless (Assuming the Thais are connected to the debit card networks).  Or did the gang get the cards illegally, i.e. copy victim's information, make duplicate cards, or request cards using hijacked ID and personal data?  Just wondering.  And then, after the flunkies buy merchandise, then what?  Did the gang plan to take all that stuff back to China?  Did the gang and the flunkies plan to sell the stuff at local pawn shops or market place stalls in Thailand and then pocket the cash?