Thai police warn of ‘sweetheart scams’ targeting men

[webfact]

Picture: Manager

 

Officials from the Thai police's Consumer Protection Division went on their Facebook page to warn young Thai men about sexy young foreign women who want to be friends.

 

The message was they may be more than meets the eye! They may be criminals after your money!

 

Their post featured the page of a young woman who purported to be someone working for the Salvation Army out of Kabul who came from the UK.

 

Yes, said the CPD she may be hot and sexy and she may want to desperately be your friend out of the blue. 

 

But our advice is dont click "accept" to a friend request. Turn them down.

 

Why?

 

They gave two reasons.

 

1. You could soon find yourself friends with someone who is going to send you goods. But for one reason or another the goods get stuck and you need to pay the tax to get them released. 

 

(This, Thaivisa notes, is the standard way Romance Scam gangs extract money from the unwary. Nigerian men have been known to be involved, our sources suggest, as well as their Thai partners).

 

Or...

 

2. The foreign "woman" will soon send you sexy pictures of her naked and ask you to share yours. You will then be the subject of blackmail and extortion attempts.

 

It's a cruel old world but better to be safe than sorry, suggested the CPD in comments reported by Manager yesterday. 

 

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[Excel]

Anything would fool a Thai young man. Why the incompetent RTP would even consider giving this warning indicates that they are as naïve as those fools themselves

Edited June 17, 2021 by Excel

[ezzra]

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times,  and you'd be more than qualify to be Thailand PM or a government minster...

[Justgrazing]

I barb wired my inbox mths ago to emails and messages I was getting off the ones I know anyway .. and I'm not even young .. 

 

20 minutes ago, webfact said:

 

Yes, said the CPD she may be hot and sexy and she may want to desperately be your friend out of the blue. 

 

If your CPU gets a bit hot you can turn a fan on to cool it so maybe you can try the same with a CPD .. 

Just point the fan at the screen ..  

Edited June 17, 2021 by Justgrazing
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[4MyEgo]

About a year ago this happened to one of the wife's 16 year old sons, but it was extortion by a ladyboy, who soon found out that you don't pi$$ off a Thai mother, suffice to say the Katoye has left the building so to speak, as for the son, well didn't mummy rip into him, lesson learned one hopes.

 

Edited June 17, 2021 by 4MyEgo

[Artisi]

49 minutes ago, Excel said:

Anything would fool a Thai young man. Why the incompetent RTP would even consider giving this warning indicates that they are as naïve as those fools themselves

I don't follow your reasoning from niave young Thai men (not forgetting gullible farangs) to incompetent RTP, maybe you think the best action is to say nothing. 

[tifino]

 the only thing that rings thai alarm bells is when they suspect the Offer includes someone else's kids...

[Artisi]

3 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

Sounds like a normal everyday event for a farang living in Thailand, hello, were you go, hansum man, etc, etc.

 

The ones that stop, could later find out that they are helping out with the buffalo, or mumma and pappa getting better.

Or supporting the lazy, line in brother. 

[Excel]

1 minute ago, Artisi said:

I don't follow your reasoning from niave young Thai men (not forgetting gullible farangs) to incompetent RTP, maybe you think the best action is to say nothing. 

Well never mind, you have just proven my point, take care

[Artisi]

Just now, Excel said:

Well never mind, you have just proven my point, take care

That's even less understandable. 

[Excel]

6 minutes ago, Artisi said:

That's even less understandable. 

oh dear. Just be aware of the scam then and believe nothing anyone tells you  ????

[Artisi]

7 minutes ago, Excel said:

oh dear. Just be aware of the scam then and believe nothing anyone tells you  ????

Unfortunately not every one in this world has your intelligence and aware all the scams being played on unsuspecting people. 

And why wouldn't you believe something is a scam when pointed out to you. 

 

Seems very warped thinking. 

[Excel]

4 minutes ago, Artisi said:

Unfortunately not every one in this world has your intelligence and aware all the scams being played on unsuspecting people. 

And why wouldn't you believe something is a scam when pointed out to you. 

 

Seems very warped thinking. 

Well unfortunately naivety and lack of common sense does go hand in hand. 

[Artisi]

4 minutes ago, Excel said:

Well unfortunately naivety and lack of common sense does go hand in hand. 

Now you have got it, the very reason for the RTP to issue a comment, not that many are likely to take much notice. 

[chalawaan]

Oh I've seen the fake pictures, usually some post-op pretty, with cartoonish westernized eyes, and whiter skin than a Glaswegian lassie, asking me if I can satisfy her unrequited wifely lust, or if I "remember her".

 

Just picture Captain Crewcut and his flour exporting antics, and basically that's the type of mofo hiding behind the fake snaps.

 

Needless to say I immediately fall in lust, and YOLO my life savings at them. 

 

If scams are getting more sophisticated, no-one updated these clowns. LoL.  

 

 

[timberpond]

I wonder did RTP ever give a sheet when falang got sweetheart scammed in Thailand. It's fine to scam people but not getting scammed by people.

[EricTh]

If they send me any naked photos of themselves, I will send them photos of naked fat old man which is not mine instead.

 

These crooks can blackmail as much as they want but I won't pay a single cent.

Edited June 17, 2021 by EricTh

[chalawaan]

Salvation Army, working out of Kabul. ????????

 

Ka-bul She-ite?

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The message was they may be more than meets the eye! They may be criminals after your money!

As if it's not hard enough keeping your money in your pocket in Thailand we've now got incoming.

[Misterwhisper]

Let me guess: Her name is Nikita and she claims to be good friends with Sir Elton John.

 

 

Edited June 17, 2021 by Misterwhisper

[BusyB]

You don't say 555

[Rookiescot]

2 hours ago, EricTh said:

If they send me any naked photos of themselves, I will send them photos of naked fat old man which is not mine instead.

 

These crooks can blackmail as much as they want but I won't pay a single cent.

 

Why do you have my pics?

[saakura]

3 hours ago, EricTh said:

If they send me any naked photos of themselves, I will send them photos of naked fat old man which is not mine instead.

 

These crooks can blackmail as much as they want but I won't pay a single cent.

So you keep a collection of photographs of naked fat old men?

[EricTh]

1 minute ago, saakura said:

So you keep a collection of photographs of naked fat old men?

 

No. There are tons of pictures of any type on the internet. 

[petedk]

I can't see how they fall for these beautiful foreign women. It is so obviously a scam.

 

I am lucky. I had 2 or 3 nice sweet religious ladies from Nigeria send emails to me.  They are always polite and pray for my health every day. I seem to have had 2 or 3 find my email address somehow. They are probably looking for a nice religious, kind, handsome man like me.

 

[nightfox]

Nothing new here as Nigerian scammers don't discriminate who they scam.

[Hayduke]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

The message was they may be more than meets the eye! They may be criminals after your money!

 

Yes…..avoid these sexy foreign devils. Thai men should stick to pure and honest Thai ladies who will never try to trick or cheat them….

 

 

 

Edited June 18, 2021 by Hayduke