Doctor and daughter send call center gang 100 million baht - all they needed to do was hang up!

[webfact]

 

Siam Rath reported that a retired doctor in southern Thailand and her daughter parted with more than 100 million baht after they believed they were being investigated for sending a package containing an illegal item.

 

The daughter thought they were facing jail and after telling her mum - a former doctor at a hospital in Chumphon - they decided to comply with requests they thought were being made by the police in Chiang Rai.

 

The case began when "Da" - the daughter got a call on September 25th. Da and her mother run a clinic in the southern Thai city.

 

She should have just put the phone down and ignored it. Some people are getting these calls daily.

 

Instead she got sucked into believing that she would be jailed for sending a package (probably containing drugs).

 

She went on a Line group purported to be run by the Chiang Rai police. 

 

Then she got further entrapped by believing that a "Pol Col Kittipong" of the Chiang Rai police wanted her assets.

 

She told her mum.

 

Together they transferred 101,871,381 using four accounts between 25th and 29th September. 

 

Then the penny dropped. 

 

It was all a scam.

 

They went to the real police in the form of the Muang Chumphon constabulary.

 

Yesterday Region 8 deputy Pol Maj-Gen Wasan Techa-akarakasem went to a police meeting to see how the case was progressing. 

 

ASEAN NOW recommends that if you get a call from people that say you are mixed up in illegal activity do one thing and one thing only.

 

Hang up. 

 

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[roo860]

Anyone got their number? Asking for a friend. 

[falang07]

How could such naive people get hold of hundreds of millions Baht is beyond me.

 

[LivinLOS]

Where do these multi millionaire dullards come from ?? I mean just... 

[spidermike007]

Survival and prosperity depend on the laws of natural selection. It is amazing this incredibly gullible, and indiscriminate family made it this far with their wealth. You just say no. Sue me. Report me to the cops. This should be fun. Go for it. Knock yourself out. See ya! GOOD TRY!

[Photoguy21]

5 minutes ago, falang07 said:

How could such naive people get hold of hundreds of millions Baht is beyond me.

 

Could it be anything to do with what they put in a package? Probably not but who knows.

[Rhys]

SAD...

[KhunBENQ]

6 minutes ago, falang07 said:

How could such naive people get hold of hundreds of millions Baht is beyond me.

Have you ever checked prices at a private clinic? Beauty/boobs clinic is my guess.

[richard_smith237]

How did they acquire 100 million baht ???....

 

Could it be they really were trafficking ‘questionable packages’.... and someone was extorting them ?

 

Otherwise, why even entertain the scam if they’d sent no packages ?

[2baht]

13 minutes ago, Rhys said:

SAD...

No, stupid!

[Rhys]

1 minute ago, 2baht said:

No, stupid!

Stupid and Dumb

[Rhys]

Just now, Rhys said:

Stupid and Dumb

[BostonJoe]

For 25 million Baht I can teach them some common sense  

[internationalism]

so how the penny dropped and how they knew it was all scam?

That is not explained.

 

They were sending some packages to chiang mai.

what was in them?

why they were scared so much and why they did not go to their police station to clarify matters?

[Orinoco]

22 minutes ago, BostonJoe said:

For 25 million Baht I can teach then some common sense 

Scammer,  I would do it for 10.

[steven100]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

transferred 101,871,381 using four accounts between 25th and 29th September. 

 

Then the penny dropped. 

    stupid is as stupid does I guess ......   how ridiculously naive could one be ?

[BostonJoe]

9 minutes ago, Orinoco said:

Scammer,  I would do it for 10.

See now they'll probably take that deal but still won't learn any common sense   Because if the deal sounds to good to be true ,it probably is  At 10 its a deal

[Orinoco]

26 minutes ago, BostonJoe said:

See now they'll probably take that deal but still won't learn any common sense   Because if the deal sounds to good to be true ,it probably is  At 10 its a deal

Nah, I'm in it for the long game.

You see, I learn them common sense, on the Monday.

They forget it by Tuesday, then retrain Wednesday, one more 10 million fee,

Sorted, jobs a good'un.

wonder if i need a work permit 

[Iamfalang]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Then the penny dropped. 

This is the amount I lost when my life savings was wiped out by call centers scamming me for 8932939324 hours.  joke is on them.   

[Iamfalang]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

101,871,381

Hello falang English teacher at 30,000 a month thinking Apple, Banana, Carrot is a good job

 

This amount would be like clown falang working for about 283 YEARS.

 

That's why I created Bitcoin........eassssssssssssssy money 

[JCauto]

51 minutes ago, steven100 said:

    stupid is as stupid does I guess ......   how ridiculously naive could one be ?

Well, get this - there are people who believe that Prayut is doing a good job as PM and deserves to remain in power indefinitely!

[JeffersLos]

Quote

all they needed to do was hang up!

Some may think it's all a joke, but we too were contacted by these scammers.

 

We firmly believed it was genuine.

 

When it got to the discussions of how much money I had available to transfer they hung up. 

[Silencer]

32 minutes ago, Iamfalang said:

Hello falang English teacher at 30,000 a month thinking Apple, Banana, Carrot is a good job

 

This amount would be like clown falang working for about 283 YEARS.

 

That's why I created Bitcoin........eassssssssssssssy money 

Crypto is gambling. Real estate is where the action is. Friend of my wife made 30M baht in one deal two weeks selling a property. She will likely make at least that again this year. She has a 6th grade education, no training, no overhead. THAT is easy money.

[CharlieH]

Simple , either say nothing and hang up, or, you could tell them, You know my name and address (from the package) put it in writing , send EMS and we'll go from there, goodbye !

[Thomas KH]

I'm speechless. So quiet one could hear a pin drop after reading this sad tale of unparalleled naivete and gullibility. 

 

That... or this was a well-planned act by the daughter for an early inheritance.

 

 

[Confuscious]

I was last week dragged into a similar scam.

Last week Tuesday, I found a package from Flash Express on my porch.
It was addressed to someone in my neighborhood.

I scanned the QR-code, and the package was signed for reception by someone.
Most problably the Flash Express delivery self.

I put the package inside my house and waited for someone to collect it.

 

I have read already many times about this scam, where a person would come to my house and claim the package was addressed to him and he got my address from Flash Express.
Later, a Flash Espress driver would come to my house to get the package back.

As I didn't had the package anymore, they would sue me for the "expensive" items.

And sure as hell, the next day someone in my street came asking for the package.

I told him that I would handle the package over to him, but I would do that at the police office.

He disappeared faster than he came and I didn't see anybody anymore.
But I still have the unopened package at home.

The message in all such scams: STAY ALERT and DON'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT A LAWYER OR THE POLICE
 

 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

How did they manage to have 100 million THB available with brains like that? 

[worgeordie]

Some people have a lot more money than sense ,this case proves it,

but there will be more that will be caught out .

The scammers have changed the way they con people .greed was

the main draw , now it's stupidity , either way they will get them..

 

regards Worgeordie

[Bday Prang]

1 hour ago, Silencer said:

Crypto is gambling. Real estate is where the action is. Friend of my wife made 30M baht in one deal two weeks selling a property. She will likely make at least that again this year. She has a 6th grade education, no training, no overhead. THAT is easy money.

I would not believe anything you hear from a "friend of the wife"  especially regarding money

[kidneyw]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The case began when "Da"

Yep, that's the first hint.