Three Thais arrested for allegedly helping Nigerians in romance scam

By The Nation

 

 

Three Thais have been arrested for allegedly assisting two Nigerians to dupe a Thai man into wiring them money in a romance scam.

 

Provincial Police Bureau 4 commissioner Pol Lt Gen Surachai Kuandechakupti held a press conference to announce the arrest of Thanet Sripibul, Wathinee Krongthong and Kotchakorn Onuarah.

 

Surachai said police are hunting for the two Nigerians, who were identified as Oguejiofor Ugwu and Ugochukwu Geoffrey Ofoma. Surachai said one of the Nigerians was believed to have fled abroad.

 

Surachai said police investigated and made the arrests after Suchinda Sihasut, 22, filed a complaint with Muang Udon Thani police on May 29 that he was deceived into transferring money to a gang behind a romance scam.

 

He said a person who had claimed to be a Malaysian man using an Instagram account under the name of Cheong Xao had told him that he mailed him a package with an iPhone and US dollars.

 

Suchinda said the Thai accomplices then pretended to be officials of Nippon Express logistics firm and called him to request that he pay a fee for customs clearance of the package. He lost Bt117,000 to the gang.

 

After police arrested the three Thais, Suchinda got back Bt100,000.

 

Surachai said police found that the bank accounts of the alleged accomplices had shown entries amounting to some Bt10 million and that the gang had allegedly been deceiving Thais for a year.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30373726

 

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3 minutes ago, webfact said:

deceiving Thais for a year.

With a bit of common sense the ladies wouldn't have ended up there, but they went delusional by the smell of cash.

With so many handsome men in Thailand ,why look outside the box?

26 minutes ago, mok199 said:

With so many handsome men in Thailand ,why look outside the box?

They must be pretty acrobatic to be able to look inside it - without the use of a mirror.

9 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

They must be pretty acrobatic to be able to look inside it - without the use of a mirror.

Ha ha . A LB friend of mine ...............I was looking for a T shirt for him ( seen them but too small ) written on the front ' Think outside the box '. How suitable would that be .

18 minutes ago, toofarnorth said:

Ha ha . A LB friend of mine ...............I was looking for a T shirt for him ( seen them but too small ) written on the front ' Think outside the box '. How suitable would that be .

 A very clever t-shirt ,sadly I doubt any Thais would catch the connection...

18 hours ago, mok199 said:

 A very clever t-shirt ,sadly I doubt any Thais would catch the connection...

I have that T shirt. I bought it in Chiang Mai. 

Greed leads many to their demise !

Are suppose the three Thais arrested are known as Thaigerians now and will not damage any reputations????

Why would you transfer 117,000 baht to clear customs for an i phone and unspecified USD?

 

One would think the clown would do his due diligence and relevant checks.

 

It sounds like a gay scam by the reporting of it, no females are mentioned.

 

It's greed that wins every time with these people who lose their shirt! Must be plenty of idiots if they have amassed 10 million baht.

 

Amazingly, Nigerians involved....yet again!

3 hours ago, Scouse123 said:

It sounds like a gay scam by the reporting of it, no females are mentioned.

Maybe your barking up the wrong tree ! Does not mention the Nigerians were men - could be the Thai man had a Big Moma fetish