Mushroom Farming Scammers Make Off With 1.29bn Baht

[webfact]

Representative images of mushrooms. Photos: Sanook.com

 

TNR Staff

 

POLICE held an urgent meeting yesterday (Aug.1) to solve a mushroom farming fraud case in which 1,867 victims have lost altogether 1.29 billion baht in the well-promoted scam, TV Channel 7 said.

 

Deputy national police chief Pol. Gen. Damrongsak KittiPraphat, as head of the Police Cyber Taskforce, told all units to accelerate investigation into this big swindle and coordinate with the Anti-Money Laundering Office in tracking the money ripped off from the victims and returning it to them.

 

However, investigation revealed that the suspects left the country on November 30, 2021 but arrest warrants for them will soon be issued with coordination with Interpol to bring them back for legal action as soon as possible.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2022/08/01/mushroom-farming-scammers-make-off-with-1-29bn-baht/

 

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[Geoffggi]

Thai Rak Thai or so we are informed ...........................LOL

[law ling]

Investors were told:

 

"while getting 18-30% dividend a month."

 

... it sounds too good to be true?

[StayinThailand2much]

Saw a similar scheme yesterday for mango farming on Facebook. Little information, just promising almost 20% profit. Obviously trying to lure greedy, but gullible people...

Edited August 2, 2022 by StayinThailand2much

[ezzra]

This Covid business where most people sat at home doing nothing has given berth to  many types of scams and fraud schemes all over the world some in the megas billions of all currencies and Thailand with its gullible people has their fare share... how's the old saying goes: a fool and his money are soon parted...

[2baht]

Mushrooms, like duped investors, kept in the dark and fed on BS!

[klauskunkel]

"... left the country..., Interpol..., bring them back..."

Now, where did I see that before?

[BKKTRAVELER]

4 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:

Saw a similar scheme yesterday for mango farming on Facebook. Little information, just promising almost 20% profit. Obviously trying to lure greedy, but gullible people...

Problem is, people are probably buying into it now and we'll have news about it a year later stating that hundreds of people got scammed by it for hundreds of millions and that the suspects already ran away 6 months ago.

 

Proactive is a word Thailand should use more. 

[worgeordie]

Similar scam years ago , Chinese scammers selling breeding

pairs of Coypou * ,for big money , promised to buy young and

pelts , lots of farmers bought them, but the Chinese never returned,

 

So the Farmers were left with 1,000's of baby and adult Coypou , that

nobody wanted , some farmers ate them other just set them free.

* very large South American rodent.

 

Regards Worgeordie

 

 

 

[PETERTHEEATER]

10 hours ago, webfact said:

10 hours ago, webfact said:

but arrest warrants for them will soon be issued with coordination with Interpol to bring them back for legal action as soon as possible.

Good luck with that based on past performance...????

 

10 hours ago, webfact said:

in tracking the money ripped off from the victims and returning it to them.

After deduction of administration fees....

 

 

 

[userabcd]

When monies of a large amount are involved, be sure that govts will pull out all the stops and scour the earth to find and bring the perpetrators back to face justice.

Edited August 3, 2022 by userabcd

[metisdead]

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