Thai woman caught with 17 million baht in fake dollars in brown envelope at Bangkok mall

[webfact]

Picture: INN

 

Thailand's Economic Crime Suppression Division working with the US Secret Service attached to the US Embassy arrested a 41 year old Thai woman at a mall in Silom, Bangkok yesterday.

 

Ananya was carrying a brown envelope about to try and exchange money at an exchange booth.

 

Inside were 76 Singaporean $10,000 bills worth 17,473,680 Thai baht, reported INN.

 

They were all fake. The suspect admitted they were hers.

 

She was then taken to her vehicle that was parked in another mall in the area where 95 fake US $100 bills were found worth an additional 279,537 baht. 

 

The US officers determined that all the money was fake. 

 

The arrest followed information received about fake currency being traded said Pol Col Phadol of the ECD. 

 

The alleged fraudster was booked and taken into custody. 

 

The malls were not named in the INN story. 

 

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[Excel]

Should have used it to buy fake handbags ???? However as the US were involved guess she was only the "bagman" or woman , the forgers no doubt are elsewhere

[ndreamer]

Did she have fake ID too ? These sorts of places require ID as well, so even if she didn't get caught here she would have later.

[foreverlomsak]

17 minutes ago, webfact said:

was carrying a brown envelope

who was she going to pay off?

[Denim]

19 minutes ago, Excel said:

However as the US were involved guess she was only the "bagman" or woman

 

The correct woke term is bag person.

[Ventenio]

23 minutes ago, webfact said:

95 fake US $100 bills were found worth an additional 279,537 baht.

actually, they are NOT worth an additional....

 

they are fake....

 

95 fake $100 bills were found worth nothing.   lol.  *includes jail time.  

[OttoPollmann]

Why would you counterfeit a banknote which isn't since 2014 in circulation, get no longer handed out from the bank? Even then, why a 10000 S$ note. They couldn't find a bigger one? Running out of ink? 

[smedly]

she should have tried Lazada with 70% discount lol

[colinneil]

Come on Somchai shove up a bit, i want in the photo as well.????????????????????????

Bloody pathetic isnt it, how many they can squeeze into the photo.

[RichardColeman]

Low fruit. Mr or Mrs Big would not be out at malls exchanging false currency

[kingstonkid]

So she went to an exchange to get 17 Mill baht.  Not very bright and do exchanges have that kind of cash on hand if so screw banks exchanges are easier and more lucrative

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Ananya was carrying a brown envelope about to try and exchange money at an exchange booth.

 

Inside were 76 Singaporean $10,000 bills worth 17,473,680 Thai baht, reported INN.

She didn't want to arouse suspicion then.

[rbkk]

I'm guessing the amulets a fake as well then.

[Liverpool Lou]

8 hours ago, Denim said:

8 hours ago, Excel said:

However as the US were involved guess she was only the "bagman" or woman

 

The correct woke term is bag person.

In this case, the correct term may be "a bag"!

Edited May 27, 2021 by Liverpool Lou

[Liverpool Lou]

8 hours ago, Ventenio said:

actually, they are NOT worth an additional....

 

they are fake....

 

95 fake $100 bills were found worth nothing.   lol.  *includes jail time.  

They are if she's managed to exchange some on previous occasions.

[Liverpool Lou]

8 hours ago, OttoPollmann said:

Why would you counterfeit a banknote which isn't since 2014 in circulation, get no longer handed out from the bank? Even then, why a 10000 S$ note. They couldn't find a bigger one? Running out of ink? 

They're still legal tender and S$10,000 is the biggest denomination, therefore easier to transport and more lucrative to exchange.

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, kingstonkid said:

So she went to an exchange to get 17 Mill baht.  Not very bright and do exchanges have that kind of cash on hand if so screw banks exchanges are easier and more lucrative

Some sure do have that amount of cash, some may want customers to pre-order, though.

 

It didn't say that she was trying to exchange all of it.  She would have had difficulty with easily carrying that amount of cash in THB.

 

 

Edited May 27, 2021 by Liverpool Lou

[tifino]

...and then she accesses her secret secret stash,

  to try to 'pay' for her own Bail ???? 

[Almer]

9 hours ago, colinneil said:

Come on Somchai shove up a bit, i want in the photo as well.????????????????????????

Bloody pathetic isnt it, how many they can squeeze into the photo.

Pathetic indeed

[hanuman2543]

2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

They're still legal tender and S$10,000 is the biggest denomination, therefore easier to transport and more lucrative to exchange.

The 10,000 SDollar bill never circulated publicly which makes the whole story even more mysterious. Imagine trying to change one of them in a Thai bank.

How many copies of different documents etc?

How many times they want to see your ID card or passport?

How many telephone calls to HQ because nobody knows that such a bill exist?

Not really a good idea if you want to stay under the radar.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_dollar

Edited May 27, 2021 by hanuman2543

[unblocktheplanet]

On 5/27/2021 at 9:19 AM, foreverlomsak said:

who was she going to pay off?

Wouldn't that be sweet justice, eh!

[foreverlomsak]

13 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Wouldn't that be sweet justice, eh!

or even better she was the one that had just been paid off, with fake notes

[Liverpool Lou]

13 hours ago, hanuman2543 said:

16 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

They're still legal tender and S$10,000 is the biggest denomination, therefore easier to transport and more lucrative to exchange.

The 10,000 SDollar bill never circulated publicly

That doesn't alter the fact that the note was, and still is, legal tender as much as any other note and can be exchanged just as any other note can be, as demonstrated by this woman's attempt to exchange them.

[hanuman2543]

44 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

That doesn't alter the fact that the note was, and still is, legal tender as much as any other note and can be exchanged just as any other note can be, as demonstrated by this woman's attempt to exchange them.

Not really ( from Wikipedia):

 

; $1,000, $10,000 (never circulated publicly; only used for intragovernmental transactions

Edited May 28, 2021 by hanuman2543

[Liverpool Lou]

58 minutes ago, hanuman2543 said:

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

That doesn't alter the fact that the note was, and still is, legal tender as much as any other note and can be exchanged just as any other note can be, as demonstrated by this woman's attempt to exchange them.

Not really ( from Wikipedia):

 

; $1,000, $10,000 (never circulated publicly; only used for intragovernmental transactions

Yes, really.   From your source...

" The Monetary Authority of Singapore said that the higher denomination notes (beyond $100) will continue to remain legal tender".

[hanuman2543]

3 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Yes, really.   From your source...

" The Monetary Authority of Singapore said that the higher denomination notes (beyond $100) will continue to remain legal tender".

I never said it wasn't legal tender. I said it is stupid to try and change one. 

[Liverpool Lou]

18 hours ago, hanuman2543 said:

I never said it wasn't legal tender. I said it is stupid to try and change one. 

 

 

 23 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

That doesn't alter the fact that the note was, and still is, legal tender as much as any other note and can be exchanged just as any other note can be, as demonstrated by this woman's attempt to exchange them.

Not really

 

I said that it was still legal tender, you responded, "not really"!   If that's not saying it's not legal tender I don't know what is.

 

You did not say that it was stupid to try to change them but why would it be "stupid" to exchange (what could have been) a legal tender note?

Edited May 29, 2021 by Liverpool Lou

[hanuman2543]

37 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

 

 

 23 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

That doesn't alter the fact that the note was, and still is, legal tender as much as any other note and can be exchanged just as any other note can be, as demonstrated by this woman's attempt to exchange them.

Not really

 

I said that it was still legal tender, you responded, "not really"!   If that's not saying it's not legal tender I don't know what is.

 

You did not say that it was stupid to try to change them but why would it be "stupid" to exchange (what could have been) a legal tender note?

If you want to change fake notes, is it clever to fake and change a note which never circulated? Normally you want to stay under the radar and what you really not want is to make the people in the bank suspicious. And how clever it was from the woman is obvious.

 

"can be exchanged just as any other note can be, as demonstrated by this woman's attempt to exchange them."

 

As a result she was arrested. Very clever.

And when the note in question is only used for intragovernmental transactions this note is legal tender but only between governments and not for normal people and fakers. So it is stupid to fake and try to exchange them.

 

[ding]

Nice catch LE.

"95 fake US $100 bills" ...does she think her name is Jerome Powell?

[Liverpool Lou]

21 minutes ago, hanuman2543 said:

the note in question is only used for intragovernmental transactions this note is legal tender but only between governments and not for normal people

Nonsense, legal tender is legal tender, anyone who has them can exchange them.   The S$10,000 note was not originally issued just for governmental transactions, it was available and in circulation.

Edited May 29, 2021 by Liverpool Lou