Chiang Rai woman arrested over fake US dollars

By Natthawat Laping
The Nation

 

 

A 54-year-old woman was arrested in Muang Chiang Rai on Thursday for allegedly attempting to sell fake US dollar banknotes.

 

Border Patrol Police deputy commander Pol Maj General Sunthorn Chalermkiat said on Friday that Masarat Nitisakyothin was found to have dollar notes in her possession worth the equivalent of Bt30 million.

 

She has maintained her innocence, saying the banknotes did not belong to her.

 

 

She was arrested in a sting operation led by Pol Colonel Wachira Payanoi, superintendent of the 32nd Border Patrol Police.

 

Posing as a buyer, Wachira was allegedly taken by Masarat to her house in tambon Rim Kok and shown the fake banknotes and a chemical liquid used to cleanse the notes of black ink that covered them.

 

He agreed to pay Bt4.3 million for the liquid and they allegedly settled on a 50:50 split of the take from the resale of the available banknotes.

 

Other police officers then appeared with a search warrant, apprehended Masarat and seized the fake banknotes, a safe box and a counting machine.

 

Masarat faces a charge of possessing fake or forged foreign banknotes.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30375905

 

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Her defense:  "what are those notes that I just showed you and negotiated a selling price.  I never saw them before.  They are not mine.  I am just the broker?"

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Posing as a buyer, Wachira was allegedly taken by Masarat to her house in tambon Rim Kok and shown the fake banknotes and a chemical liquid used to cleanse the notes of black ink that covered them.

 

He agreed to pay Bt4.3 million for the liquid and they allegedly settled on a 50:50 split of the take from the resale of the available banknotes.

Classic Nigerian scam for many years.

2 minutes ago, timendres said:

Classic Nigerian scam for many years.

most likely will turn out there is a Nigerian Prince boyfriend somewhere in the south or Malaysia

Monopoly Ghost Money!

another defense:

it's a sinsot prop you can rent for your wedding day.

" Wachira was allegedly taken by Masarat to her house in tambon Rim Kok "

 

Is this house right in the central city?  Does anybody know exactly where it is?

Apparently my close neighbors have some part time jobs.

Chinese New Year Money,  so DAMN fake you have to laugh. Cut and trim to suit. This HAS to be a joke or created to bemuse Thai's and Farang alike.  Yep, I want a role of paper $100 bills to, Tal Lai Baht ?

I'm curious what denomination the are???? If they are 100's they are the older model, not the newer model with the large gold 100 on the back... I can see that much in the picture....

     This story reminds me of an American Expat I know living in Pattaya who went to Phnom Pehn and came back to Thailand with a stack of 50 of the fake $100 notes.... He bought them in a market place for 2 or 3 USD so he took them just for amusement and passed them around..... AND THEN.... when I learned about it I suggested what could have happened to him if he had got caught at the airport entering Thailand with all those  counterfeit bills..... He had never gave it a thought but he was happy that he made it through with out that happening..... Can you just imagine if it had gone the other way?????

20 hours ago, webfact said:

She has maintained her innocence, saying the banknotes did not belong to her.

 

She was just minding them for a friend... lol

7 hours ago, OneZero said:

" Wachira was allegedly taken by Masarat to her house in tambon Rim Kok "

 

Is this house right in the central city?  Does anybody know exactly where it is?

Apparently my close neighbors have some part time jobs.

The news article says she was arrested in Muang Chiang Rai. That means somewhere in the city's central district. "Rim Kok" means the edge of the Kok River which flows through Chiang Rai, so Tambol Rim Kok is a subdistrict on the river in the district that includes the city. I bet a little googling would turn up a map if you're still curious.

4 hours ago, LawrenceN said:

The news article says she was arrested in Muang Chiang Rai. That means somewhere in the city's central district. "Rim Kok" means the edge of the Kok River which flows through Chiang Rai, so Tambol Rim Kok is a subdistrict on the river in the district that includes the city. I bet a little googling would turn up a map if you're still curious.

Ya, that's why I asked the question if anybody knows exactly where the house is.  I own a condo at the Condotel (Utaradit Rd) and visit CR occasionally.  For all I know the house could have been just down the street (except I think the Condotel tambon is "Vieng").

The way things are going in the US, they might be worth the same in a little while.

On 9/6/2019 at 10:42 PM, timendres said:

Classic Nigerian scam for many years.

Did you bother to look at the pictures in the OP?

 

I see lots of dollar notes without black ink covering.

1 hour ago, ThePioneer said:

Did you bother to look at the pictures in the OP?

 

I see lots of dollar notes without black ink covering.

 

From the OP:

On 9/6/2019 at 2:47 PM, webfact said:

Posing as a buyer, Wachira was allegedly taken by Masarat to her house in tambon Rim Kok and shown the fake banknotes and a chemical liquid used to cleanse the notes of black ink that covered them.

The scam requires clean notes, since there actually is no magic black ink cleanser.

15 minutes ago, timendres said:

 

From the OP:

The scam requires clean notes, since there actually is no magic black ink cleanser.

Then where all those rolls of fake USD notes in the picture come from?

 

Do you really think they would go through the trouble of printing them first for then to paint them black?

 

By the way if you search FB there is a video showing the police applying the chemical on video and showing the clean USD notes as a result.

 

 

 

Selling a million fake USD...

 

Lucky Uncle Sam doesn't pick heer up and give her 90 years in supermax.