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Public warned against paying for 'romantic' gifts

By Suriya Patathayo 
The Nation

 

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Another warning has been issued about fraudsters using a "romance scam” to prey on more than 100 victims and extracting around Bt69 million.
 

At a ceremony at the police headquarters in Bangkok, a retrieved Bt85,200 was handed back to an unnamed victim from Samut Sakhon's Ban Phraew district who had been duped into sending Bt155,200 to a fraudster.

 

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The Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo)'s Legal Affairs Division chief Peerapat Ingpongpan warned that the scammer, claiming to be a good-looking, wealthy foreigner feigning romantic intentions via a dating website or Facebook, would ask the victim to wire money to clear customs or a logistics company's procedure for an expensive gift that was being sent.

 

He said the Amlo hotline on 1710, set up in June, reported that 104 people had been duped out of a total of Bt69 million.

 

Deputy tourist police chief Surachate Hakparn said that Nigerian fraudsters were reportedly the first to use this online romance scam tactic and the police had seized almost Bt2 million to return to eight victims.

 

He said nine victims who had received more than Bt2 million were among the plaintiffs who filed police complaints in 107 romance scam cases that claimed damages worth Bt72 million.

 

Surachate said the separate "call-centre” scams had involved work with counterparts in eight countries to arrest 160 Thai and foreign suspects.

 

He cited the recent arrest of 16 Thais in the Philippines, 10 of whom had already been sent to face prosecution in Thailand while the other six were waiting for documents to be cleared and should be sent to Thailand in two weeks.

 

The call centres kept moving their operations, causing the police to chase of them in eight countries, resulting in the arrest of 109 Thais and 55 Taiwanese citizens to face the charges of colluding in fraud and colluding in a transnational criminal syndicate, he said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30353879

 
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Posted
16 hours ago, overherebc said:

I find it difficult to believe anyone in any country can be stupid enough to fall for this idea.

PT Barnum said

“There’s a sucker born every minute.”

I  think there’s more than that.

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9 minutes ago, animatic said:

PT Barnum said

“There’s a sucker born every minute.”

I  think there’s more than that.

Population explosion

Posted
17 hours ago, overherebc said:

I find it difficult to believe anyone in any country can be stupid enough to fall for this idea.

Well, there are people who pays for sick buffaloes.... so I'm not surprised.

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This is akin to the Nigerian email fraud years back.

It's well known, most people know someone who's been propositioned, probably after trolling facebook, yet still they fall for it

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If you find falling for scams such as these difficult to credit, and you think that the victims are exclusively of low intelligence, a certain ethnic group, gender, country or region, I recommend positioning yourself outside the entrance to Mah Boon Krong to watch for the day; you will soon be disabused of your notions.

 

The fact is, people have been fooling other people since humans first walked upright, and they will continue to do so. If you think you are too smart to be fooled, you simply haven't met someone who is accomplished enough to convince you yet - or maybe you have, but you haven't yet understood that the news you consume every day to reinforce your prejudices and predilections is also a form of scam.

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18 hours ago, overherebc said:

I find it difficult to believe anyone in any country can be stupid enough to fall for this idea.

I find it very easy to believe that women in this country fall for this scam. Not all but the majority of Thai women as you already know are quite greedy. So when she thinks her rich falang  millionaire is stuck at the airport and she thinks she's just hit the jackpot she'll cough up a couple thousand dollars as an investment in what she thinks is her lottery ticket. You guys know all of this.

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18 hours ago, overherebc said:

I find it difficult to believe anyone in any country can be stupid enough to fall for this idea.

That statement sounds like it comes from a very "naieve" person.

  Exactly the type of people that get caught up in these scams?

Posted
18 hours ago, kenk24 said:

Two UU's in Vacuum and you left one out in buy... sorry - just being picky and having fun... 

Kenk. You are simply out of order.

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