Thai-British Beauty Queen Duped Out of 4M Baht, Suspect Arrested

[CallumWK]

2 minutes ago, AlwaysThere said:

 

Hard to believe that nineteen people agreed with your ridiculous summary, mixing up one of the perpetrators with the victim.

 

 

Because AN is for foreigners what FB is for Thais.

 

They just scroll through the timeline, and award likes for each and every post of their friends,without even reading what is posted.

[bradiston]

7 hours ago, bradiston said:

All it does for me is to shine a spotlight on the increasing stupidity of the victims. At what point does an enormous red flag not get raised, causing you to figure something looks just a little sus? Illegal entry into Cambodia? Opening a mule account? Forcing you to transfer millions? Are these every day activities?

Seems I've misrepresented the facts of the case here. Initially, Parichat and her husband were involved, with them being conned into illegally entering Cambodia and her opening a (Thai?) bank account for which she was paid 3,500 THB. Why travel to Cambodia to do that? How do you open a Thai bank account from Cambodia? Why the elaborate sting with fake offices etc? What were the 20 Thais doing there?

 

The beauty queen runner up was then conned into transferring millions of THB into Parichart's account by somebody impersonating a DSI representative claiming there were suspicious transactions on her account, but if she shelled out 4m THB everything would be ok and she would get the money back eventually, but never did. So she goes to the police. Right?

[AustinRacing]

6 hours ago, bfc1980 said:

These scammers are incredibly convincing. My half Thai, half English friend was almost caught out by the exact same scam. 

She called bs on it at the beginning but they had copies of her Thai passport and ID as well as knowledge of her Thai bank accounts. They knew where she worked and showed her an arrest warrant and court case documents with her name on it. These documents had the official stamp on them and when our workplace lawyers took them to a judge, he said they were absolutely legit until he noticed that the case number didn't make sense. 

They sent her to a clone website representing the courts where she was able to view the case against her. She even had a video call with the caller who was dressed in official police uniform and could see other "police officers" in the background. They were threatening her with arrest at work and that they would take away her kid. 

All of this caused a huge amount of stress and panic and in situations like this, you don't think clearly. 

 

So not all victims a greedy or stupid.

It may well have been actual police doing the scamming. Not out of question. 

[bradiston]

1 hour ago, AlwaysThere said:

 

Hard to believe that nineteen people agreed with your ridiculous summary, mixing up one of the perpetrators with the victim.

 

Point taken. I've tried to unravel it further down.

[PETERTHEEATER]

This alarming scheme unraveled after Charlotte Austin, the 5th runner-up in Miss Grand Thailand 2022

 

Oh! So she isn't a beauty queen but an unlucky competitor. 🙄