Nigerians, Thais arrested in online romance scam

By Suriya Patathayo 
The Nation

 

 

Eight Nigerian men and six Thai suspects have been arrested for alleged collusion in an online romance scam, swindling nearly Bt2 million from Thai women in Ratchaburi, Samut Sakhon, Phitsanulok, Chon Buri and Bangkok’s Dusit district.

 

Deputy Tourist Police chief Maj-General Surachate Hakpan told a press conference on Monday that the investigation began after complaints from victims – each of whom wired between Bt300,000 and Bt500,000 to the gang.

 

 

He said that the Thai suspects – including at least four Thai women - aided the gang by opening bank accounts and withdrawing cash for the foreign suspects. 

 

Despite the Thai suspects’ claim of innocence, he said they would face a charge of public fraud and abetting trans-national crimes, which is punishable with up to 10 years imprisonment. 

 

 

In an unrelated case, Surachate said that police were investigating loan sharks that preyed on some 100,000 villagers in the Northeast. By the end of this month, police should be able to return some 2,000 rai of farmland back to farmers that had been seized by loan sharks, he said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30351577

 

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Romantic little buggers, aren´t they?

They are scum I never could understand how they could do what they wanted  in Bangkok for so long. I hope this is a start to clean up Thailand and STOP letting them in .

What goes around comes around.

Pot, Fire, Kettle and all that.

 

Now if they busted them for not having a work permit or for working in a reserved occupation, I would understand it.  

 

This story is just too stupid for words.!!

lock 'em up in separate enclaves among hard-core thai criminals

Well , blame the fools and those greedy women.I see the article as biased or with racial tone as no picture or emphasis on the Thai suspects?

Those charts look extremely complicated, I see at least six arrows on one of them....But I'm very disappointed to find that nobody points at anybody.

Edited August 7, 20187 yr by AlQaholic

If there was ever a situation where profiling was justified it is the Nigerians. Round them up and send them home and stop letting their replacements come here. 

BJ looks like he is taking this Malteser very seriously ?

Why don't they just hit on some northern European woman, no need for any scam.

18 minutes ago, AlQaholic said:

Those charts look extremely complicated, I see at least six arrows on one of them....But I'm very disappointed to find that nobody points at anybody.

Just imagine if police actually policed rather than made pretty charts... bit of a stretch. "We would have arrested them weeks ago, but our crack team hadn't quite finished this spiffy chart"

13 minutes ago, chopin2 said:

Why don't they just hit on some northern European woman, no need for any scam.

Yeah, I never got laid in my home country because of the women's fascination with greasy foreigners....

these nigerians are just locusts

do they ever do anything good?

 

7 minutes ago, MUSICMAN16 said:

these nigerians are just locusts

do they ever do anything good?

 

It's time for a campaign, like the "taxi-returns-cash" stories.

Nigerians in a Scam. Who would believe it. Never. ?

I don't get it. An African man meets a Thai lady and convince  her to give money?  This happens all the time.  Is it that easy??? 

Gee, I wonder how much of that money the Thai women gave the Nigerians was given to the Thai  women by farangs?

Just now, tonysilly said:

I don't get it. An African man meets a Thai lady and convince  her to give money?  This happens all the time.  Is it that easy??? 

Must be, if it happens all the time. Look how many Western men are convinced to give Thai women money.

33 minutes ago, AlQaholic said:

Yeah, I never got laid in my home country because of the women's fascination with greasy foreigners....

Is that the reason why you came to Thailand?

Just now, micmichd said:

Is that the reason why you came to Thailand?

How did you guess?

Its always been a notion of mine that if these Nigerian scammers worldwide put as much time, effort and money into doing legitimate business they would be the most successful country in Africa. The things they dream up are amazing. Alas. Sadly not.

1 minute ago, Snow Leopard said:

Its always been a notion of mine that if these Nigerian scammers worldwide put as much time, effort and money into doing legitimate business they would be the most successful country in Africa. The things they dream up are amazing. Alas. Sadly not.

Actually, Nigerians are the most successful immigrant group in the US. They all get highly educated like doctors and professors and earn high salaries.

2 minutes ago, AlQaholic said:

Actually, Nigerians are the most successful immigrant group in the US. They all get highly educated like doctors and professors and earn high salaries.

I never heard of the title -professor of scam though.

Just now, AlQaholic said:

Actually, Nigerians are the most successful immigrant group in the US. They all get highly educated like doctors and professors and earn high salaries.

How did their parents get the money to send them there in the first place? Or is it all scholarships? 90% of Nigerians don't have a pot to piss in.

 

Please don't get me wrong i have worked in Nigeria. I have many Nigerians friends who i worked with along the way. Good people. The scammers are what give the county and its people a bad name. Other peoples from other African countries say this as well. 

breaking new...honest taxi driver finds bag of cash left in the back seat of his meter taxi, and returns it to its Nigerian owner...

OMG. Its the "me" generation in this photo op. 16 Policemen, 4 suspects and 4 photographers!   

 

A picture is worth a thousand words.

12 minutes ago, AlQaholic said:

Actually, Nigerians are the most successful immigrant group in the US. They all get highly educated like doctors and professors and earn high salaries.

..and then they go home, act all important, belittling their countrymen and in a strong position to start sucking from the national trough.

The only good things to come out of Nigeria are the flights and ..................................................................err........................that's about it!

I have lived there three times for work.  They are, generally a despicable, backward country of thieves, liars and crooks.

If I walked out of a shop and saw a Nigerian on fire, I would not piss on him to put him out.

Sure, I have a few Nigerian friends and some of the young technicians I have mentored have turned out pretty good but, overall, it's a complete sh1thole.

1 minute ago, saminoz said:

..and then they go home, act all important, belittling their countrymen and in a strong position to start sucking from the national trough.

The only good things to come out of Nigeria are the flights and ..................................................................err........................that's about it!

I have lived there three times for work.  They are, generally a despicable, backward country of thieves, liars and crooks.

If I walked out of a shop and saw a Nigerian on fire, I would not piss on him to put him out.

Sure, I have a few Nigerian friends and some of the young technicians I have mentored have turned out pretty good but, overall, it's a complete sh1thole.

Yeah, I know the feeling, I have the same feeling about Poland and Bulgaria, worked in both countries.

They hopefully will be ofline for the next decades.