Foreign English language teachers arrested in 27 million baht mask scam

 

 

Channel 3 reported that two foreign language teachers took advantage of the Covid-19 situation and the closure of their schools to set up a lucrative scam to sell surgical face masks. 

 

Crime Suppression Division and Immigration swooped to arrest Filipino teacher Tengko JR in Kantharawichai district of Mahasarakham and Ms Asaka from Cameroon in Nong Na Kham in Khon Kaen. 

 

They were in Thailand supposed to be teaching, presumably English, at their schools but after they shut they saw an opportunity. 

 

They pretended to be reps for a big mask making firm. They set up a fake website complete with logos stolen from elsewhere and forged documents to gain the trust of many people who wanted to be supplied with masks. 

 

There are many victims in what police say is a 27 million baht scam involving the falsification of documents. One victim was saved from transferring 3 million baht at the eleventh hour.

 

Also arrested was a 32 year old Thai woman called Rasasukhon who handled the gang's accounts. 

 

She helped set up multiple accounts to hide the transfer of money and quickly saw that the cash was siphoned abroad in order to cover the gang's tracks.

 

The suspects are now in custody facing charges of fraud. 

 

Source: Channel 3

 

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I'm gonna guess that Amnesty might not save them here ?

11/10 for ingenuity bet the Thais  are  <deleted> they didnt think of it, thats  the trouble stealing Thai  jobs dirty farangs

so 27 millions and they still live in this s**thole? and didn't run away with the loot and all that time waiting for the police to come? put them in prison just for being that stupid...

19 minutes ago, ezzra said:

so 27 millions and they still live in this s**thole? and didn't run away with the loot and all that time waiting for the police to come? put them in prison just for being that stupid...

The last thing I would do if I was stealing money through fraud is advertise my wealth by buying/renting flash throngs is: home, car etc. 
As for running with the loot huge amounts of cash, for free I might add, tends to skew someone’s ability to cut and run, especially if they were poverty stricken in the first place. At least their families are extremely well taken care of back home (if it was their idea and they weren’t just pawns for someone bigger)

Sophisticated scam just not sophisticated enough to get away with it (although someone has the cash)

"You got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, know when to run". But most sit at the table because greed won't let them quit.

It would seem the person they hired to "cover their tracks" wasnt quite up to the task.

9 minutes ago, bunnydrops said:

"You got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, know when to run". But most sit at the table because greed won't let them quit.

Is this the sum total of your experience in committing fraudulent experience, or did you just feel a burning need to type out an irrelavent cliche? 

6 hours ago, webfact said:

from Cameroon

why they keep african people in thailand

 

up to no good

 

and teaching english ?  in african english tongue ?

6 hours ago, webfact said:

who handled the gang's accounts

3 people are a gang now .....

regards worgeordie

When schools in Thailand are hiring such individuals to teach English, the realization falls heavily that there is little hope of improvement here ????

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Channel 3 reported that two foreign language teachers took advantage of the Covid-19 situation and the closure of their schools to set up a lucrative scam to sell surgical face masks. 

What happened to the minister that was selling masks as a side line?

9 hours ago, MadMuhammad said:

The last thing I would do if I was stealing money through fraud is advertise my wealth by buying/renting flash throngs is: home, car etc. 
As for running with the loot huge amounts of cash, for free I might add, tends to skew someone’s ability to cut and run, especially if they were poverty stricken in the first place. At least their families are extremely well taken care of back home (if it was their idea and they weren’t just pawns for someone bigger)

Sophisticated scam just not sophisticated enough to get away with it (although someone has the cash)

Not that easy to leave the country with 27 million .   

5 minutes

 

That's the over-under betting odds of constant laughter at you after you tell someone in a normal country that you were an English teacher in Thailand.  

NOT a good year for foreign teachers!

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

What happened to the minister that was selling masks as a side line?

He got some new expensive watches from his friend and he's out if the business now

So some naive **** was about to transfer 3 million baht for face masks ?I mean the gullible some folk are never ceases to amaze me 

14 hours ago, webfact said:

They were in Thailand supposed to be teaching, presumably English, at their schools but after they shut they saw an opportunity. 

 

14 hours ago, webfact said:

They pretended to be reps for a big mask making firm. They set up a fake website complete with logos stolen from elsewhere and forged documents to gain

Really talented (with criminal background in home county?), perhaps they were looking for an opportunity while teaching English. 

 

I read that headline and thought ' bound to Be a Filipino involved '

 

They know an opportunity when they see one and don't hang around.

 

Pity they can't channel that opportunism into something above bourd.