Foreigner charged with using fake passport, thanks to face recognition system

By Kornkamon Aksorndej 
The Nation

 

 

Immigration police on Friday detained a foreign man for allegedly using a false travel document to travel out of the country at Suvarnabhumi International Airport.

 

The man was using a passport that identified him as Oh Chee Boon, a Malaysian, to check in at the airport on his way to Philippines on Philippine Airlines.

 

However the airport’s biometric system, which featured face recognition, showed that he did not match the system’s data storage information. During questioning the man insisted that he was Oh.

 

However, further investigation showed that the passport was fake and had been used in entering and exiting Thailand via the Thai-Myanmar border several times. Police also confiscated a cash of US$500,000.

 

Police charged the man with using a fake passport and suspected him of involving in transnational crime.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30369949

 

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11 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Police also confiscated a cash of US$500,000.

Whoppee! I bet someone's out on the piss tonight then.

 

How much cash???

Holy cow, US$500,000?!

That's 5,000 Benjamins.

 

$500,000 will it be the deposit on a new sub or a few condo's

Leaving the question of why he was travelling on a fake passport with a serious wad of cash to one side, or where said cash will end up, and coming back to the issue of facial recognition systems.

Scoring 16%, 16%, 0% and obviously looking nothing like the dark looking fella on the far right of the picture, so another probable 0%, does this mean that he has lost face?

Something I thought anathema in this part of the world.

I wonder how that system would handle dealing with my passport photo and me in real time, after a serious night or weekend on the piss? 1. ???? 2. ???? (That number 2 emoji, quite appropriately being the "pile of poo" emoji.)

12 minutes ago, ThreeEyedRaven said:

Leaving the question of why he was travelling on a fake passport with a serious wad of cash to one side, or where said cash will end up, and coming back to the issue of facial recognition systems.

My guess is that he is from China.

 

Chinese passports are quite restrictive for smuggling money when compared to other countries' passports.

 

Malaysia has a huge ethnic Chinese population so they look 'similar' until some facial recognition software which was imported from China comes up to identify the fakes. LOL

Edited May 24, 20197 yr by EricTh

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

Police also confiscated a (sic) cash of US$500,000.

I can see how there might be some very expensive dinner reservations being made by senior members of the Imm. Police this weekend. Perhaps even some new vehicles and gold for some wives is on the way. 

 

Congratulations guys. Nice windfall. 

The interesting thing about this is the amount of cach he was carrying. I wonder if he declared it.

38 minutes ago, ukrules said:

The interesting thing about this is the amount of cach he was carrying. I wonder if he declared it.

I know he's not a US citizen, and he is travelling in another country, but I wonder what happens when the US Secret Service steps in. There is always the question if this money is even real, not sure the RTP would even know that...

Hey, the Thais wanted the Chinese in their country. Now they will have their head spinning with this stuff. Enjoy yourself fellas. 

More cases to come and not only Asian ones I guess  ,as the Thais seems to enjoy their new digital toys and improving to use them .

Maybe now our naughty boys start sweating a little 

The guy needs to change his name to something Thai, like Oy Cheep Hai.  Or to Die Naa if it wasn't all his cash. 

 

In and out of Myanmar  ... drug money? 

Probably fake news to try and show people that their system is wonderful.

 

Who on earth thinks they can get $500k through an airport!!

 

A bit like they use the 'honest cabbie' story to cover all the sh1t that goes down here.

10 hours ago, ocddave said:

Holy cow, US$500,000?!

That's only what the police admitted to.

2 hours ago, Sticky Wicket said:

Probably fake news to try and show people that their system is wonderful.

 

Who on earth thinks they can get $500k through an airport!!

 

A bit like they use the 'honest cabbie' story to cover all the sh1t that goes down here.

Agreed, this is another bomb detector farce.

The Thais are too corrupt to buy anything that actually works, and if they did accidentally get something that worked, their staff would be too stupid to operate it.

Edited May 25, 20197 yr by BritManToo

The image in the BP shows nowhere near $500,000, and some of the notes are 100s of a different currency.

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Police also confiscated a cash of US$500,000.

Maybe they found the cash first........and......

 

 

2 minutes ago, Ozman52 said:

The image in the BP shows nowhere near $500,000, and some of the notes are 100s of a different currency.

500.000 in 100's would be around 5 kilogams/12 lbs.??

Don't think that's 5 kilograms in the photograph.

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25 minutes ago, Ozman52 said:

The image in the BP shows nowhere near $500,000, and some of the notes are 100s of a different currency.

Looks like $50,000 to me, Thais often get the 0s wrong.

Apple got in trouble when, based on its facial recognition system, it accused someone of theft. They were wrong. And this is a tech company. A US city has banned its use for the same reason. What are the chances that Thailand's will be 100% correct?

This time it appears to have worked.

12 hours ago, JamJar said:

How much cash???

Enough to pay all those Thai hospitals who've been stung by foreigners skipping out on their medical bills!!!

11 hours ago, kotsak said:

That's 5,000 Benjamins.

 

Arithmetic not your strong suit huh?

34 minutes ago, overherebc said:

500.000 in 100's would be around 5 kilogams/12 lbs.??

Don't think that's 5 kilograms in the photograph.

500,000 in 100's

So the system is starting to pay for itself already.

it was worth spending all that money on it,much

better than the bomb detectors.

regards Worgeordie

11 minutes ago, overherebc said:

500,000 in 100's

Even Stevie Wonder could see that going through the x-ray machine

23 minutes ago, elgenon said:

Apple got in trouble when, based on its facial recognition system, it accused someone of theft. They were wrong. And this is a tech company. A US city has banned its use for the same reason. What are the chances that Thailand's will be 100% correct?

This time it appears to have worked.

This time it triggered an alarm and caused further checking. Can't see any problem with that.

20 minutes ago, mogandave said:

Arithmetic not your strong suit huh?

check your math eh