webfact Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Nigerian" romance scammer" and Thai female accomplices interviewed Picture: Sanook Sanook reported that three members of a large gang of romance scammers were interviewed by Region 5 police yesterday. The case involves 100 victims in Chiang Mai being conned out of 30 million baht via Facebook. The police team headed by Pol Maj-Gen Suraphon Prembutr interviewed Aka or Ulasi, 33, a Nigerian and his Thai wife and another Thai woman after they were brought back from Malaysia via Sadao. From June to July last year they defrauded woman in Chiang Mai and were part of a gang of 17 people. Their modus operandi was all too familiar. Picture: Sanook The Nigerian posed as a US boat company owning millionaire. After befriending women through Facebook he told one victim that he would come to see her after taking his yacht from the US to Australia. In the meantime he had sent her expensive goods. The woman was then contacted by the Nigerian's wife and another woman posing as customs officials to say that tax needed to be paid on the items for their release. She initially parted with 50,000 baht. As the gang got their claws into the victim she was further contacted to say that more and more tax needed to be paid. She eventually parted with 1,400,000 baht before the Nigerian and his accomplices disappeared. Thaivisa notes that those interviewed appeared to be part of a gang involved in a bust in which Thai immigration chief Lt Gen Surachate "Big Joke" Hakparn played a pivotal role in Kuala Lumpur in cooperation with Malaysian police. Source: Sanook -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2019-02-11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Like Lambs to the Slaughter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyhat Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 You'd think by now there has been enough exposure on the news to allow people to realise how this scam operates. Yet reports keep rolling in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giddyup Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Some people just beg to be burned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardColeman Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 3 hours ago, webfact said: The Nigerian posed as a US boat company owning millionaire. How dumb must you be to believe a millionaire goes on the internet looking for 'romance' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyL Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 I can't help but ???? at these regular stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RotBenz8888 Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Same ladies that fall for the Ponzi schemes. Its money romance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pique Dard Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 people never learn both the scammed and the scammers! but i can't help wondering why a country like nigeria produces so many scammers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 16 hours ago, RichardColeman said: How dumb must you be to believe a millionaire goes on the internet looking for 'romance' I did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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