Extortionist used Facebook to blackmail former mayor - victim hanged himself

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Daily News Thai Caption: Blackmail victim killed himself

 

Crime Suppression Division police announced the arrest of a Facebook predator extorting money by blackmailing people over sex clips online. 

 

Khamdee was arrested at a house in Don Jik, Ubon Rathcathani after police obtained a search warrant.

 

Five phones and evidence of 1,000 sex video clips were found, reported Daily News.

 

The case began when a former mayor of an area in Petchabun province was found dead in a garage next to a house in Sri Thep district.There was a rope attached to a beam and the body of Suphon was on the ground.

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Relatives of the politician doubted he had killed himself and told police he had no feud with anyone and was not stressed - or so they thought.

 

In addition his phone was missing. This was later found by police in a nearby pond. The CSD, brought in by local cops to help with the case, determined it was indeed suicide.

 

They discovered that Khamdee, a homosexual man who liked to pose online as a woman and who had previously been involved in online extortion was behind the crime. 

 

This came after it was discovered that the former mayor had made cash transfers to his account. 

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Khamdee had befriended the mayor on Facebook pretending to be a woman. 

 

A clip of the victim masturbating was used to extort money from him.

 

When the victim stopped sending money that was demanded Khamdee contacted twenty of the victim's friends and relatives on Facebook with the clip.

 

Then the victim killed himself.

 

Three civil servants were among the ten victims found in the evidence on Khamdee's phones.

 

He was charged with embezzlement, extortion and computer crime.

 

Police warned the public not to share sex clips online as they can be used for blackmail purposes by unscrupulous individuals.

 

In this case Khamdee went so far as to hack victims' accounts to find clips. He would then contact the victims to say he had discovered something on Twitter and could arrange with tech experts to have it removed.

 

But it would cost money.

 

He then set up a fake Facebook account of a tech expert to complete the ruse and had been extracting money from people for three years.

 

In the last three months alone 460,000 had gone into his account in this manner. 

 

The mayor lost 200,000 baht over two years before he took his life. 

 

 

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[ezzra]

This is what is called assisted suicide, maybe it will severs a lesson and a warning to all those predators out there, and there are many of them...

[AndyFoxy]

Lesson: Don’t do freak stuff online that you can be blackmailed for.

[AustinRacing]

Maybe he had a small Willy and the embarrassment of others seeing it was too much for him. Silly man. 

[internationalism]

he is a victim of his own vice.

he always had a chance to go to police to report an attempted extortion - sometimes 2 years ago, before transferring money the first time.

Many other victims of this extortion would also be saved.

 

[Harsh Jones]

9 minutes ago, internationalism said:

he is a victim of his own vice.

he always had a chance to go to police to report an attempted extortion - sometimes 2 years ago, before transferring money the first time.

Many other victims of this extortion would also be saved.

 

Yeah it doesn't really make sense. Maybe he thought it would be embarrassing for the police to find out too or something