Police seize fake US dollar banknotes worth 34-million baht in Nonthaburi

[snoop1130]

 

Thai police seized counterfeit US banknotes, with a face value of about 34 million baht, and arrested two suspects in Nonthaburi yesterday (Monday), in a joint operation carried out by police from the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) and the US secret service attached to the US Embassy in Bangkok.

 

The fake US dollars had been offered for sale online to anyone. TCSD police contacted the seller to purchase a substantial amount of the counterfeit US currency, to be delivered in a rendezvous at a condominium in Muang Thong Thani yesterday.

 

TCSD police, disguised as motorcycle taxi drivers, were posted at and near the condominium, to wait for the person who was to deliver the fake money to the buyer.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/police-seize-fake-us-dollar-banknotes-worth-34-million-baht-in-nonthaburi/

 

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[2baht]

10 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

the seller

Damn, we were almost hiso! ???? There goes the Benz! ????

[RichardColeman]

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The fake US dollars had been offered for sale online to anyone.

About as stupid as robbing a bank and posting you did it on social media.

[nobodysfriend]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The fake US dollars had been offered for sale online to anyone. TCSD police contacted the seller to purchase a substantial amount

Surprise , surprise , Thai Police knows how to go online as well ....

The seller of the fake notes wins the today's award as being the king of stupid .

[lassebasse]

One woman had 2000 onehundred dollarbills and another guy had 7000. That is a total of 900.000 US dollars. So where did they find the remaining 33 million +??

[2baht]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

About as stupid as robbing a bank and posting you did it on social media.

Unfortunately, stupid can't be fixed!

[Lt Frank Bullitt]

11 minutes ago, lassebasse said:

One woman had 2000 onehundred dollarbills and another guy had 7000. That is a total of 900.000 US dollars. So where did they find the remaining 33 million +??

Found USD900,000, qouted as THB34mil ????

[sammieuk1]

I tried to sell my fake pounds earlier this year and failed turns out they were real and still cant sell them????

[thailand49]

1 hour ago, nobodysfriend said:

Surprise , surprise , Thai Police knows how to go online as well ....

The seller of the fake notes wins the today's award as being the king of stupid .

Not really,  the case was brought forward by the U. S. 

Secret Service to Thai authorities.  ????

[Thomas KH]

Hmmmm I see some bahts with red fasteners there but not mentioned in the inventory. Probably because those were the only genuine notes and someone had other intentions other than keeping them for evidence.

[Paradise Pete]

1 hour ago, lassebasse said:

One woman had 2000 onehundred dollarbills and another guy had 7000. That is a total of 900.000 US dollars. So where did they find the remaining 33 million +??

The headline says worth 34M baht, which is currently about US$900,000

[Shocked farang]

These guys may be the reason that the last time I went to a Kasikorn bank in Chiang Mai to exchange a $100 note, the Teller made a photocopy of the note, my passport, made me sign the copies as well. This plus the knowledge they have about these notes, my God if you know them well, it's impossible to be coned. 

[bendejo]

The picture of Nixon was the dead giveaway.

 

 

[BangkokReady]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

TCSD police, disguised as motorcycle taxi drivers, were posted at and near the condominium, to wait for the person who was to deliver the fake money to the buyer.

I wonder if they were as obvious as the hiso Thais that discussed themselves as taxi drivers to try to get a vaccine early...

 

Must have been interesting to see.

[NativeBob]

Obviously a fake news. 

PS: " to be delivered in a rendezvous" << who writes like that? A canadian?

[wwest5829]

Widely distributed in Thailand but I wonder where they were printed?

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

About as stupid as robbing a bank and posting you did it on social media.

Some do.

[Iamfalang]

Can you set up a page with talk (only talk) of counterfeit bills, nuclear codes, uranium for sale, plutonium for sale, etc.....

 

and then simply have all the links go to other sites???

 

would be funny to see offices thinking they got a big bust but instead they stare all day at big busts.  lol  

[shackleton]

Stupid is what Stupid does going online to sell $

Missing a few brain cells ????

[Iamfalang]

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Thai police seized counterfeit US banknotes, with a face value of about 34 million baht,

Why only 34 million?  These guys were printing these bills thinking, "I'm going to be sooo rich!!!!  Free money!!!!  Free lunch!!!!  Smartest guys in the room!!!  Hey, how's our Facebook page???""

 

Now they ARE getting free lunches!!!!!!!

 

I'm a retied diamond smuggler who can think of 10,000 better ways to make 34 million than this.

 

Oh, you want to find out how??????????????????????????  glad you asked coppers!!!

 

buy my book, "How to make 100 billion baht in a week."    One copy, 10 million baht.  No refunds.

[Iron Tongue]

1 hour ago, wwest5829 said:

Widely distributed in Thailand but I wonder where they were printed?

North Korea is a primary source of counterfeit US$100 bill.

They have always used SE Asian countries to launder their fake bills.

Notice that these notes are all the old style of discontinued banknotes and not the new "blue" banknotes printed in multicolored inks, metallic inks, and incorporating a wide hologram strip.  North Korea is unable to counterfeit those.

 

[wwest5829]

29 minutes ago, Iron Tongue said:

North Korea is a primary source of counterfeit US$100 bill.

They have always used SE Asian countries to launder their fake bills.

Notice that these notes are all the old style of discontinued banknotes and not the new "blue" banknotes printed in multicolored inks, metallic inks, and incorporating a wide hologram strip.  North Korea is unable to counterfeit those.

 

That is where my thinking went …

[metisdead]

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[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, Thomas KH said:

Hmmmm I see some bahts with red fasteners there but not mentioned in the inventory. Probably because those were the only genuine notes and someone had other intentions other than keeping them for evidence.

"Hmmmm I see some bahts with red fasteners there but not mentioned in the inventory".

No, you don't, those are the two thousand fake US notes.

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, NativeBob said:

Obviously a fake news. 

PS: " to be delivered in a rendezvous" << who writes like that? A canadian?

No one, you cropped the actual quote which was...

"...to be delivered in a rendezvous at a condominium".

[Dont confuse me]

After reading this I'm considering selling fake precious metals on line? What chance would I have of getting caught?  ???? ???? ???? 

[robin hood]

6 hours ago, lassebasse said:

One woman had 2000 onehundred dollarbills and another guy had 7000. That is a total of 900.000 US dollars. So where did they find the remaining 33 million +??

Baht

[Mickmouse1]

6 hours ago, lassebasse said:

One woman had 2000 onehundred dollarbills and another guy had 7000. That is a total of 900.000 US dollars. So where did they find the remaining 33 million +??

HUH??? 900K@36=?? 900@38 ????????

[PETERTHEEATER]

The giveaway on counterfeit notes is always rhe paper on which they are printed. In this case, the overprint, 'Pyonyang Times' raised suspicions.......????

[kidneyw]

4 hours ago, bendejo said:

The picture of Nixon was the dead giveaway.

And Mickey Mouse.