Thai man with degree from English uni arrested for fraud

 

 

Daily News reported that a Thai man with a bachelor's degree from an English university had conned a mobile phone shop out of 20,000 baht. 

 

Thanayut Wiriyawong, 32, had fooled a mobile shop owner called Praewphan Phakphian, 38, on the Line application. 

 

Buying a phone online he had sent the shop owner fraudulent communication suggesting he had transferred 20,000 baht into the owner's account. 

 

He had in fact transferred nothing at all. 

 

Thanayut said he had done this twice before selling the phones he received through the post to make money for personal use.

 

Source: https://www.dailynews.co.th/crime/675481

 

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Is this down to the seller not checking, and taking the buyer's word for it, or something more involved?

6 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Is this down to the seller not checking, and taking the buyer's word for it, or something more involved?

Mixing with all those farang at the English university set him on the wrong path, he was a good Thai boy before he went there.

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

Mixing with all those farang at the English university set him on the wrong path, he was a good Thai boy before he went there.

I doubt he ever saw an English university. Aren't those degrees for sale in Bangkok?

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

Mixing with all those farang at the English university set him on the wrong path, he was a good Thai boy before he went there.

Yep.

Damn blue-eyed devil foreign influence.

So he's got a bachelor's degree from an English university. And that makes this story a sensation?

Someone who looks more like a grade 8 drop out, jet ski scammer..what could possibly go wrong??

2 minutes ago, RotBenz8888 said:

So he's got a bachelor's degree from an English university. And that makes this story a sensation?

got to get you in somehow , what better way than the headline we see here?

10 minutes ago, RotBenz8888 said:

So he's got a bachelor's degree from an English university. And that makes this story a sensation?

Nope, MBA.

I've got a PhD my father awarded me.

Painter house Decorator.

????????

36 minutes ago, RotBenz8888 said:

So he's got a bachelor's degree from an English university. And that makes this story a sensation?

Not so much as the inference, already noted herein, that a graduate of Chula or Ramkhamhaeng would never, ever pull such a despicable act as this.

 

Rajabahters maybe but not the above.

36 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

Not so much as the inference, already noted herein, that a graduate of Chula or Ramkhamhaeng would never, ever pull such a despicable act as this.

 

Rajabahters maybe but not the above.

Graduates of Ramkhamhaeng Uni wouldn't have the brains for such a scam... ????

Edited November 6, 20187 yr by StayinThailand2much

4 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Daily News reported that a Thai man with a bachelor's degree from an English university had conned a mobile phone shop out of 20,000 baht.

Pesky foreign degrees

I'm not wholly sure why the degree is relevant to the story!

2 hours ago, sweatalot said:

I doubt he ever saw an English university. Aren't those degrees for sale in Bangkok?

A doctor was practicing for 25 years before he was caught. He was smart he refer all the difficult complicated cases to real doctors and got commission. He of course prescribe pills for simple cases that came to no harm.

After so much experience over long years shouldn't he be given a doctor degree of some sort? Well he had so much practical experience even a houseman in his first year would not see so many patients as this fake doctor.

He was put in prison you know.

3 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

So he's got a bachelor's degree from an English university. And that makes this story a sensation?

Plus, strange headline, lots of focus on bachelor degree from Uk rather than any even simple details of the fraud. 

20 minutes ago, scorecard said:

Plus, strange headline, lots of focus on bachelor degree from Uk rather than any even simple details of the fraud. 

Subliminally suggesting that attaining a British university degree is equal to being highly civilised. ????

Not.

????

 

6 hours ago, sweatalot said:

I doubt he ever saw an English university. Aren't those degrees for sale in Bangkok?

Why would you doubt that he went to university in England when many Thais do just that?

Edited November 6, 20187 yr by Just Weird

5 hours ago, mok199 said:

Someone who looks more like a grade 8 drop out, jet ski scammer..what could possibly go wrong??

There's one picture of someone wearing a hat and a mask yet you know what he looks like?

Those damn English degrees. 

How is having a bachelor's degree from an english university or any other place relevant to the story?

Judging by his t-shirt, it was probably a mickey mouse degree.

So what .... every girl on thai friendly has a degree, some even have MBAs or PHDs

Maybe attended "Buffalo Creek Crossing College", which translates in Thai to Oxford? "Engine lifters and Spanners Tech School" aka Cambridge?

4 hours ago, sirineou said:

How is having a bachelor's degree from an english university or any other place relevant to the story?

It has no relevance or bearing.

Typical for what some might promote as news.....

He should have stayed in the land of the free, get a degree from Khao san Rd. and become a respected abbott.

14 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

So he's got a bachelor's degree from an English university. And that makes this story a sensation?

Perhaps it is to suggest that he was of superior intellect and yet fell from grace? The moral of the story being that remaining uneducated and ignorant will protect one from the temptations of life.

What does his foreign degree have to do with anything?  Where did all of the Chinese at the rip off call centers get their degrees from?

I thought the fraud was about his degree in English.