Nigerian gang busted for large scale "Romance Scam" in Thailand

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Police in the south of Thailand have announced the arrest of four Nigerians and a Myanmar man who were running an international Romance Scam conning lonely Thai women out of money.

 

Three of the latest victims were from Ranong and one parted with 2 million baht before the penny dropped that she had been ripped off. 

 

The scams followed a familiar pattern with such cases. Using fake IDs the gang pretended to be respectable people like doctors or US military men seeking friendship with Thai ladies on Facebook, Instagram and Line. 

 

They expressed their love of Thailand and a wish to settle in the kingdom. Then gifts were promised and "evidence" sent. 

 

But the promised goods - including mountains of dollars - got stuck in customs and the victims needed to pay duty to get them released. The gang supplied bank accounts to use.

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Losses amounted to 10 million baht.

 

The "Deepfake" video system was also used to trick the victims into believing their stories. 

 

Four Nigerian men and a Myanmar man were arrested in both Hua Hin (where drugs were found) and Ranong. 

 

At least four appeared to be on long overstay according to pictures published by 77kaoded following a top brass press conference in Ranong. 

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Computer equipment and yaba and ganja were among the many items taken into evidence.

 

Unusually for such stories no mention was made of Thai women aiding and abetting in the crime, notes Thaivisa. 

 

 

 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

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And Thai women normally show such good judgement when it comes to men.

 

How shocking.

I find that hard to believe no Thai women involved, who opened the bank accounts for them and normally they are the one who pretend to be from the customs dept getting the money transfers

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

But the promised goods - including mountains of dollars - got stuck in customs and the victims needed to pay duty to get them released. The gang supplied bank accounts to use

That golden oldie is still doing well then.

I stopped a staff member sending 20,000 Baht to "Malaysian customs" for a cash package, intercepted while on its way to Thailand for the same reason fifteen years ago.

 

I was a victim of a scam perpetrated by a Nigerian with a bank account of a Thai woman, but i have manged to claw back my money with a help of a police contact, those guys are nothing but the scum of the earth, even maggots who live under a rock have more decency and morality than these vile group of people...

21 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

That golden oldie is still doing well then.

I stopped a staff member sending 20,000 Baht to "Malaysian customs" for a cash package, intercepted while on its way to Thailand for the same reason fifteen years ago.

 

Good thinking Batman

3 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

24 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

That golden oldie is still doing well then.

I stopped a staff member sending 20,000 Baht to "Malaysian customs" for a cash package, intercepted while on its way to Thailand for the same reason fifteen years ago.

Good thinking Batman

It was a 'Dutch' guy who found the Thai member of staff through Skype.

He then smooth-talked her and offered her a job in Holland looking after his children. He would provide her with a work permit and good salary.

Initially he was sending her cash via a courier, for a plane ticket and a Dutch visa.

The "Malaysian customs" official had an Arabic name and needed to be paid via Moneygram. Yeah sure...

 

Oddly enough I only got involved because the girl asked me how to send cash using Moneygram.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

one parted with 2 million baht before the penny dropped that she had been ripped off. 

If she's already done 2 mill' I can't imagine a penny is gonna make much difference ..

3 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

1 hour ago, webfact said:

one parted with 2 million baht before the penny dropped that she had been ripped off. 

If she's already done 2 mill' I can't imagine a penny is gonna make much difference ..

They must be pretty old public toilets anyway.

26 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

They must be pretty old public toilets anyway.

Chance'll be a fine thing to find a public khazi nowadays .. And the ones at the gas stations the minivans stop at on the Cambodia border runs always seem to have kite flyers hanging around them .. 

32 minutes ago, webfact said:

But the promised goods - including mountains of dollars - got stuck in customs and the victims needed to pay duty to get them released. The gang supplied bank accounts to use.

The only reason why this rather blunt scam still works even decades after its inception is that certain people are just as greedy as their forebears were.

 

But also let's be very frank about another aspect: A good many of these "victims" would eventually have revealed themselves as being little more than what is commonly referred to as "gold diggers".

 

Had those "doctors" and "military men" turned out to be the real thing, they would with reasonable certainty have been unscrupulously stripped down to their last shirt by "Faithful Katie" and her entire extended family. They would've been faced with an unceasing stream of demands for new houses, motorcycles, consumer gadgets, cash "loans" and - not to forget - paying for the sick water buffalo's treatment cost.  

 

Yes, I AM aware that not ALL Thai women are like that. But: If you willingly risk a good portion of your life savings as an "investment" in order to lay your fingers on "mountains of dollars" allegedly gifted to you by an almost complete stranger, you have unwittingly proven in which direction the future money train is going to swing in case you should succeed in hooking up with that "doctor" or "military man".

 

And it is exactly that sort of greed that plays into the hands of con artists and it explains why this scam continues to work just as well today as it has in the past.

Nothing to do with romance. Greediness in its most pure form.

 

 

Edited June 2, 20206 yr by Zikomat

2 hours ago, ChipButty said:

I find that hard to believe no Thai women involved, who opened the bank accounts for them and normally they are the one who pretend to be from the customs dept getting the money transfers

I find it hard to believe that Nigerians were scamming, it's so out of character.

Despite the disdain that Thai's have for people of color, 

a Thai teamed up with a Nigerian would be a scam-making match made in heaven

blacklist scum

7 minutes ago, varun said:

Despite the disdain that Thai's have for people of color, 

a Thai teamed up with a Nigerian would be a scam-making match made in heaven

A Thaigerian gang, fused together by the only thing that they have in common: making money without having to actually earn it. 

So the Nigerians stuck at the airport are romancing the stone...

Edited June 2, 20206 yr by spiekerjozef

3 hours ago, Logosone said:

And Thai women normally show such good judgement when it comes to men.

 

How shocking.

Only fat, desperate uglies will be involved with Africans from what I have seen, they often end up with kids on their own as a result

Edited June 2, 20206 yr by Orton Rd

4 hours ago, ChipButty said:

I find that hard to believe no Thai women involved, who opened the bank accounts for them and normally they are the one who pretend to be from the customs dept getting the money transfers

Maybe an influential person

Most Thai girls I've spoken to have said that they don't find black guys attractive and the same applies to Indians. The only Thai girls I've seen with a black guy have been on the plump side and the same applies to the Indians.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

But the promised goods - including mountains of dollars - got stuck in customs and the victims needed to pay duty to get them released. The gang supplied bank accounts to use

The greed exceeding the brains again...

It´s amazing that people still gets fooled out of this. 

its a mystery why theyre let into the country to keep  on doing the same year after year .maybe they like the thai prison cells for comfort and free food ?

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Unusually for such stories no mention was made of Thai women aiding and abetting in the crime, notes Thaivisa. 

Maybe there weren't any Thai women involved, notes Bob A Kneale.

1 hour ago, tribalfusion001 said:

Most Thai girls I've spoken to have said that they don't find black guys attractive and the same applies to Indians. The only Thai girls I've seen with a black guy have been on the plump side and the same applies to the Indians.

The chances of any of these blacks admitting their real ethnicity for the scam are five-eighths of fck-all.

I think its fascinating that its Nigeria that is the epicenter for scams like this - I wonder if they have a national training program... ???? 

Hello, this the Prince of Zamunda, Adebayao Smith again.

 

As you know, currently I am serving in the American military as a high ranking officer. Since I enjoyed our texts so much I have decided to send you 20,000 dollars in a golden box with some diamond rings. Unfortunately this gift has been held up at customs and due to my charitable donations I am currently suffering from short term liquidity problems. Would you be a dear and send 2 million Baht to pay the customs fee so they can send you the diamonds? Please send the money to Abimbola Ratchaporn, the Thai customs officer dealing with this matter in Lagos, address below. Thank you darling! Me send you thousand kisses!

6 hours ago, giddyup said:

I find it hard to believe that Nigerians were scamming, it's so out of character.

They probably needed convincing done by a higher up general with many rings on his fingers and many wristwatches.

8 hours ago, bluesofa said:

That golden oldie is still doing well then.

I stopped a staff member sending 20,000 Baht to "Malaysian customs" for a cash package, intercepted while on its way to Thailand for the same reason fifteen years ago.

 

Another golden oldie still doing very well is farang pensioners and poor economic migrants thinking that a Thai girl 20-30 years younger with nothing in common and whom they met online or in a bar or shop is genuinely and deeply in love with them for their handsome looks and nothing to do with money.

2 minutes ago, saakura said:

Another golden oldie still doing very well is farang pensioners and poor economic migrants thinking that a Thai girl 20-30 years younger with nothing in common and whom they met online or in a bar or shop is genuinely and deeply in love with them for their handsome looks and nothing to do with money.

But it's not a scam as your getting some "action" out of it.