Lottery dealers go to tech police after losing 100 million baht in online ticket fraud

[webfact]

Picture: Daily News

 

More than 50 lottery ticket dealers went to Thailand's tech police yesterday to file a complaint after they were ripped off by an online seller called "Ban Ruay Choke".

 

The seller said they could source government lottery tickets at a cheaper than normal price.

 

One of the victims who Daily News called Tor, 66, said that a guy called Khet on Facebook recommended the seller.

 

Picture: Daily News

 

For a long while it worked out fine after he invested 5-6 million baht in tickets.

 

Then he decided to go in bigger with money from relatives and invested 14 million baht in the upcoming May 16th draw.

 

These tickets would normally be delivered between Monday and Wednesday this past week but Khet told him that a woman called Jay had vanished into thin air with the tickets and the money.

 

Losses are believed to total 100 million baht in the fraud that the tech police are now investigating. 

 

Thaivisa notes that dealers known in Thai as "yee pua" act as middlemen supplying the people who sell on the streets. 

 

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[colinneil]

No sympathy what so ever for those sellers.

A scammer scamming the scammers, priceless.

[chuang]

Greed Greed Greed.....

[petermik]

Where money`s concerned Thais have no scruples.....

[clivebaxter]

I bet ALL of them have been breaking the law selling at 100 baht instead of the legal limit of 80, som nam na

[ezzra]

You'd think that lottery vendors will see a scam from a mile away, like an earlier report about another woman agent scamming people for like 500 million baht again to do with lottery tickets, so the saying that a sucker born every minute is still very much true...

[JustAnotherFarang]

According to my thai friends, 8 out of 10 thai people are dishonest......I am justso fortunate to have have found them ????

 

[ronaldo0]

Ah if only there was a way to buy lottery tickets online ????????

[Thomas J]

3 hours ago, petermik said:

Where money`s concerned Thais have no scruples.....

And exactly which ethnic group does have scruples where money is concerned.  There may be differences between the various ethnicities around the world but one gene they all share in common is GREED. 

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Thaivisa notes that dealers known in Thai as "yee pua" act as middlemen supplying the people who sell on the streets. 

The infamous "middlemen" can Thailand not do anything right?

No honour among thieves now, things must be tough.

[digger70]

Lottery dealers go to tech police after losing 100 million baht in online ticket fraud

 

Nice one Jack ,,,,,,Karma      ????

[Liverpool Lou]

5 hours ago, colinneil said:

A scammer scamming the scammers

How are lottery ticket dealers "scammers"?

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, clivebaxter said:

I bet ALL of them have been breaking the law selling at 100 baht instead of the legal limit of 80, som nam na

All of them are dealers, i.e. middle men, they are not the sellers that the public buys from, so they sure do not sell at B100 per ticket.

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, ronaldo0 said:

Ah if only there was a way to buy lottery tickets online ????????

And put the retail ticket sellers on the streets out of work?   That's not nice.

[Liverpool Lou]

44 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

The infamous "middlemen" can Thailand not do anything right?

No honour among thieves now, things must be tough.

The GLO tickets are sold, officially, to those middlemen by the GLO, why do you say that they are thieves?

[hotchilli]

3 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

The GLO tickets are sold, officially, to those middlemen by the GLO, why do you say that they are thieves?

I don't know an honest middleman.

[colinneil]

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

How are lottery ticket dealers "scammers"?

Hello where have you been recently? Not in Thailand surely, lottery tickets are by law 80 baht, yet these damn scamming middlemen take almost all of the money and leave the vendors with almost nothing, scammers, nothing less.

[SomchaiCNX]

14 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Hello where have you been recently? Not in Thailand surely, lottery tickets are by law 80 baht, yet these damn scamming middlemen take almost all of the money and leave the vendors with almost nothing, scammers, nothing less.

It used to be 40 if I remember well.

 

[Elkski]

If we are talking about one yee pua buying 14 million for 1 lottery draw,  Just think how much this poor ignorant population is wasting 2 x a month.  Is this number public?  I guess you can't outlaw the lottery or else it would just be the black market.  But I think it would be best. I feel lotteries prey on the poor with dreams to win big.   My fiance says 100 baht  is normal but they know it is 80.   TIT.  She says special numbers cost 120 to 150 .  Say if king dies and the number on his cars license plate that is 150.  But she says they now have advertising a hotline for illegal sellers but  it's so common to have to pay 100.  That's a nice profit margin on top of whatever the normal margin is.   They need machines at 7-11 like in the USA.  Get rid of all these middlemen and street flea bags.  

Edited May 8, 2021 by Elkski

[GeorgeEboy]

As opposed to the people they sell the lottery tickets to.

[Captain Monday]

There should not be any lottery sellers the tickets should be offered at automated kiosks only.

[Excel]

19 hours ago, colinneil said:

No sympathy what so ever for those sellers.

A scammer scamming the scammers, priceless.

Karma at its finest. Selling 80 baht tickets for 100, blocks of tickets for inflated prices , yes Karma at its finest and clearly these people didn't realise that buying anything advertised on Facebook is always a lottery anyway ????