Police Say Canadian Scammed Thai Students With Bogus US Jobs

[webfact]

Police Say Canuck Scammed Thai Students With Bogus US Jobs

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

Police arrest Michael Roberge on Thursday morning in Bangkok.

 

BANGKOK — Police on Thursday morning arrested a Canadian national who allegedly scammed university students by promising them jobs in the United States.

 

Police Col. Arun Wachirasisukanya arrested Michael Roberge, 37, on the 18th floor of the Amarin Plaza building in Bangkok’s Pathum Wan area. He was charged with scamming dozens of university students for 150,000 baht each after promising them paid internships in the states. Authorities on Thursday were looking for additional possible victims.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/calamity/2018/10/25/police-say-canuck-scammed-thai-students-with-bogus-us-jobs/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2018-10-25

[ArickChaiyaphum]

Doesn’t look Canadian by is dress since. Just the red shirt !!????

[bluesofa]

5 minutes ago, ArickChaiyaphum said:

Doesn’t look Canadian by is dress since. Just the red shirt !!????

Perhaps he was a lumberjack - they all wear red shirts:

[DILLIGAD]

Perhaps he was a lumberjack - they all wear red shirts:

Maybe he was hanging around bars?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[hotchilli]

Before parting with hard cash it's easy to do some investigation work via the internet to get verification of these so called jobs or overseas positions.... never take anything at face value!

[Henrik Andersen]

Why pay for a job you can just go internet and find out that is real jobs and if real you still don't need to pay money 

just another lowlife man there live on others trust and hope for better future 

Shame on you.. 

[Curmudgeon1]

42 minutes ago, ArickChaiyaphum said:

Doesn’t look Canadian by is dress since. Just the red shirt !!????

May I clarify..... French Canadian ????

[Kerryd]

Da*# Canadians !

 

Don't you know you're supposed to apologize (before, during and after) doing anything ? Eh ?

And then apologize for apologizing too much eh !

 

Hosers ! Damaging Canada's reputation ! Trudeau will probably make him the new Minister of Foreign Affairs after this (eh) !

[lopburi3]

[Esso49]

40 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Before parting with hard cash it's easy to do some investigation work via the internet to get verification of these so called jobs or overseas positions.... never take anything at face value!

You are forgetting that he was scamming Thai Uni students  Do you honestly believe that any Thai Uni student would have the common sense to check up on anything ?

[outsider]

Not so nice now that the scamming boot is on another foot eh?

[ArickChaiyaphum]

Perhaps he was a lumberjack - they all wear red shirts:

A real Canadian would be out fishing not talking to girls students about employment in the USA sounds to deep for a Canadian


Sent from my iPhone using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app

[ArickChaiyaphum]

May I clarify..... French Canadian [emoji16]

It’s snows a lot in Quebec so I guess red stands out


Sent from my iPhone using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app

[oldrunner]

Scammed folks should have first taken a short course in COMMON SENSE. A "Canadian" setting up USA paid internships should have been their first hint of "duhhhh here's my money". If conman spoke with a French accent, that also should have alerted the idiots donating money to his good life.

[Chang_paarp]

Must be a dodgy Canadian thing, he is not the first.

[RichardColeman]

That's it. make all Canadians show double the amount req'd for a retirement visa !

[MarkmBha]

Disgusting.

[NewGuy]

That’s not Harris Black, is it? (for posters with good memories)

[Burma Bill]

To all Thai students (coming from a farang) - please, please check fully on the internet about such claims and NEVER part with money until properly verified documentation is presented.

[mdmayes]

Must be French Canadian 

[blackcab]

I would not like to be this gentleman if the accusations are found to be true. It is quite possible that he will receive a sentence for each instance of theft, to run consecutively.

 

That could amount to quite a substantial amount of time.

[CanuckThai]

Might be interesting if they poke around a bit, clarify the story and a few facts.  Apparently the "Thai Business Manager" has some involvement.  Not that a majority Thai business partner would ever cause grief.... ????

[tony5150]

With so many Thais that scam people I have very little sympathy for them when they get scammed.

[cookieqw]

dozens,  must have been pretty good at it

[Ulic]

Paid internships in the US. Ridiculous, everyone in North America knows that internships and non paid positions. Companies get young people to work for free to gain experience. One of Canada's/America's scams.

[TMNH]

2 hours ago, tony5150 said:

With so many Thais that scam people I have very little sympathy for them when they get scammed.

Two wrongs don't make a right - at least the way I've been raised.

[khaowong1]

Damn Canadians, eh... ????

[observer90210]

A good lesson to the victims (and a few others)....a white skinned person can be a cheat and a thief... a black skinned (potential x-ray outlaw foreigner candidate), can turn out to be honest...

[Spidey]

4 hours ago, NewGuy said:

That’s not Harris Black, is it? (for posters with good memories)

Does look quite like him. Same MO too. Had heard that he's still around Pattaya and up to his old tricks.

[DashRye]

How dumb these university kids are. Most likely they dont know anything on the internet other than Facebook, Snapchat. There is one for you future professional kids, LinkedIn.

Sent from my SM-G935V using Tapatalk