Thai women conned by ”rich foreigner” - how ”Jim” was snared by private investigators

[webfact]

Picture: Kapook

 

Kapook reported on a post on Facebook of a firm of private investigators called TBLS. 

 

The story concerned a late thirties female teacher called Pattama who contacted the agency after losing everything she had to what she thought was a well off foreigner who was going to marry her and have kids with her.

 

Pattama was a divorcee with a child and was looking for a fresh start. She was quite well off and worked as an English teacher at a Thai school.

 

Instead of fulfilling her dreams, she not only lost her savings but ended up being named in a summons from the Chiang Rai police in a fraud case in which a monk received a couple of boxes of masks rather than a phone.

 

"Jim" from Singapore was behind all this misery.

 

Pattama met him on Tinder and was impressed by his profile with the luxury car and wealthy lifestyle.

 

But despite the trappings of wealth Jim was lonely and wanted a Thai wife, someone to bear his children and go into business with in Thailand.

 

For, as he pointed out, that is tricky for a foreigner without a wife. 

 

She was hooked - line and sinker - by the sweet talking Jim and agreed to a first date when he turned up in a nice car and had 200,000 baht cash on him. 

 

He splashed this around as if there was no tomorrow.

 

Her eyes were opened too late. She lost everything then all contact with the "Singaporean" ended.

 

She went to the PI when the summons arrived and asked them to investigate about another woman. 

 

It emerged that Jim had conned at least five other women in the age range 35-40. They all had quite a bit of money and status. 

 

They were all contacted on Tinder, all soon chatted with Jim on Line then agreed to dates. 

 

But with the work of the PI's Jim was soon uncovered by Thai immigration who discovered he was in actual fact a Malaysian called Tan Bun Hok who had entered Thailand via Sadao and was on a two year overstay. 

 

The PI firm got a wife of an investigator to pose as a woman looking for love on Tinder. 

 

She said she was seeking a well off Asian man who could speak English and help her with that language and Jim soon came along. 

 

It was the same picture as supplied by Pattama. 

 

Within an hour they were chatting on Line and after three hours chat they had arranged to meet in person. 

 

He didn't have a car by this time (it had been seized by police in Mahasarakham) and he was delighted that the latest woman would be arriving in her own to pick him up. 

 

Immigration beat the PI to the meeting site in Khon Kaen and made the arrest. 

 

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[RotBenz8888]

20 minutes ago, webfact said:

impressed by his profile with the luxury car and wealthy lifestyle.

 

Don't need to be a genius to figure out that fraud. But then again, all that money????

[worgeordie]

It was, he conned her first before she could con him, 

The bait is always greed , the woman would not have

looked at him twice ,if he was just an ordinary ,honest

man. with next to nothing.

regards worgeordie

[Phuketshrew]

37 minutes ago, webfact said:

"Jim" from Singapore was behind all this misery.

In Thai 'Jim' is just another name for female genitalia ... He must have been a right <deleted>

[Whale]

Was she interested in the man or his wealth. Thailand all over.

[brucegoniners]

Nice to see one of these scums get arrested!

[BobinBKK]

I found a few things humorous in this news article.

 

1) Tinder date

2) Thai teaching English

3) The PI firm uploading false information into a computer system and getting a wife of an investigator to pose as a woman looking for love on Tinder

[talahtnut]

Where would we be without fraud, theft, and lies?

Well, you would not be able to form a government,

Most commercial activity would collapse.

and you might not even be born.

I wonder what its like not to be born.

[JWRC]

6 minutes ago, talahtnut said:

Where would we be without fraud, theft, and lies?

Well you wouldn't be in Thailand that's for sure.

[ronster]

So how did he actually con them ? Seems the women’s greed cost them and they want refunded . Plenty of guys been conned by Thai women but they don’t seem to get refunded !! ????

[BangkokReady]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Pattama met him on Tinder and was impressed by his profile with the luxury car and wealthy lifestyle.

 

he turned up in a nice car and had 200,000 baht cash on him. 

 

He splashed this around as if there was no tomorrow.

It always confuses me when Thai women who are absolutely obsessed with material wealth complain about men treating them badly.  Not that what happened in this case is at all justified, but more generally speaking, what do they expect?

[PETERTHEEATER]

1 hour ago, brucegoniners said:

Nice to see one of these scums get arrested!

He was not difficult to spot with a face like that.

[ezzra]

I would throw him in a prison for hard time women so they can <deleted> the living daylight out of him everyday and he wished he be dead...

[1FinickyOne]

31 minutes ago, talahtnut said:

I wonder what its like not to be born

who could know that?

 

One in a million maybe

[Khabib]

41 minutes ago, talahtnut said:

 

I wonder what its like not to be born.

You'll find out, after you're dead.

[Khabib]

12 minutes ago, ezzra said:

I would throw him in a prison for hard time women so they can <deleted> the living daylight out of him everyday and he wished he be dead...

Plenty of videos out there I'm sure, if that's your thing.

[TooBigToFit]

This world has crime going on in some form on every corner all the time. Beware.

[Gold Star]

Clearly, the game works both ways.  I would wager that males are most often the victims here, as our little heads often take over and do all the thinking.

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

In Thai 'Jim' is just another name for female genitalia ... He must have been a right <deleted>

You've been here long enough to learn certain words, same as me... 

[BostonRob2]

3 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

In Thai 'Jim' is just another name for female genitalia ... He must have been a right <deleted>

Maybe it was Jim with a falling tone and he was a dip(stick)

[BostonRob2]

2 hours ago, talahtnut said:

 

I wonder what its like not to be born.

There are literally hundreds of posters here who could answer that.

[RobU]

3 hours ago, worgeordie said:

It was, he conned her first before she could con him, 

The bait is always greed , the woman would not have

looked at him twice ,if he was just an ordinary ,honest

man. with next to nothing.

regards worgeordie

Incisive and to the point as usual, keep it up

[2009]

What did she lose exactly?

 

I can't see anything

[tonray]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Pattama met him on Tinder

Wow....imagine that...a Tinder match being a liar

[bkkcanuck8]

He might have been lucky to be 'enshared by the PI'.  You con 5 women of status, who then lost face.... you might have that one hire a PI, but another pay a bit less and have him assassinated.  ????

[ArcticFox]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

She was hooked - line and sinker - by the sweet talking Jim and agreed to a first date when he turned up in a nice car and had 200,000 baht cash on him. 

"I have all this money - but - I need your money too to pay my dead uncle's lawyer and when I come back we'll be billionaires!!!."

How that doesn't send up immediate red flag is beyond me.  Although PT Barnum had a quote about that.  At the end of the day, greed begets misery. 

[ArcticFox]

If the PI's are working for a woman with no money, I wonder what they get out of it after immigration swooped their target. 

 

 

Edited August 10, 2021 by ArcticFox

[steven100]

1 hour ago, 2009 said:

What did she lose exactly?

 

I can't see anything

yes ......   what actually happened ?     how did she lose everything ?     how did Jim con the 5 women  ?

I don't get it  !!!!!

[Bluespunk]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

The PI firm got a wife of an investigator to pose as a woman looking for love on Tinder. 

 

She said she was seeking a well off Asian man who could speak English and help her with that language and Jim soon came along. 

 

It was the same picture as supplied by Pattama. 

So why get the wife of an investigator to chat with him online?

[steven100]

49 minutes ago, ArcticFox said:

If the PI's are working for a woman with no money, I wonder what they get out of it after immigration swooped their target. 

 

 

but what did they all lose ??  the women ??  what did they lose ?  and how has Jim been caught ? for what exactly ??