A 28-year-old Indian man has been arrested in Nonthaburi after a 34-year-old Thai civil servant accused him of deceiving her into supporting him financially for almost three years following their meeting on a dating app. Immigration officers also found that he had overstayed his permission to stay by 1,201 days.

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The arrest took place on 3 July at a condominium in Wat Chalo, Bang Kruai district, Nonthaburi. Police identified the suspect as Mr Gurvinder Singh, who was charged with remaining in Thailand after his permission to stay had expired. Immigration records showed that his permission expired on 19 March 2023.

The investigation began after the woman, identified only as Ms Dao, 34, reported the matter to Nonthaburi Immigration. She told officers she met Mr Singh around three years ago through a dating application while he was living in Singapore.

According to Ms Dao, Mr Singh claimed to come from a wealthy, high-caste Indian family and said he had studied in several countries, including Canada, Russia and Cyprus. He also told her he was studying tourism in Singapore while working part-time, leading her to believe he was financially secure.

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After several months of online conversations, Mr Singh travelled from Singapore to Thailand and moved into Ms Dao’s condominium in Nonthaburi. She alleged that once he arrived, he refused to find work, gradually stopped helping with household chores, became short-tempered and relied entirely on her income to cover all living expenses throughout the nearly three years they lived together.

Feeling she was being taken advantage of, Ms Dao asked immigration officers to check Mr Singh’s legal status in Thailand. She also warned others using dating applications to carefully verify people they meet online and avoid trusting strangers too quickly, adding that she has since deleted the app.

Mr Singh told officers he came to Thailand after completing his studies in Singapore because he did not want to return to India. He said Ms Dao had invited him to Thailand and later warned him not to seek employment because he might be arrested by police, which he claimed was why he stayed at home. He said he initially lived on savings brought from Singapore until the money ran out.

Mr Singh also said his mother owns a trucking business and several rental properties in India but had cut ties with him and refused to provide financial support. He maintained that he still loved Ms Dao and insisted he had never assaulted her.

Daily News reported that after questioning, officers from Nonthaburi Immigration transferred Mr Singh to Bang Kruai Police Station for legal proceedings. Authorities said he will be deported from Thailand after the legal process is completed.

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Three years together and the final plot twist was a trip to Immigration instead of a breakup text. 😅

Someone was not taking care of Mama and the sick buffalo very well....

Off you pop, back to Mumbai of where ever you are from,

typical Indian ! Cheap Charly...back to the slums of Mumbai !

it was a grubby way to end a relationship. She was going to milk the cow but the cow was dry.

4 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

She alleged that once he arrived, he refused to find work, gradually stopped helping with household chores, became short-tempered and relied entirely on her income to cover all living expenses throughout the nearly three years they lived together.

Mooching off her for nearly 3 years.

That woman is tolerant.

He's a good scam artist.

I wish I was smart enough scam a well-heeled hi-so Thai woman into paying all my expenses.

Why did it take her 3 years to realize it was a scam tho?

51 minutes ago, Rams86 said:

it was a grubby way to end a relationship. She was going to milk the cow but the cow was dry.

She wouldn't have waited three years if that was her intent.

So, he trusted her...555555555555555555555555.

Oh well, actions have consequences.

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

He's a good scam artist.

I wish I was smart enough scam a well-heeled hi-so Thai woman into paying all my expenses.

Why did it take her 3 years to realize it was a scam tho?

The money ran out.

Indian bf lol, when are the Thais going to learn?

"high-caste Indian family"

Sure...

Probably the only true statement by either party was "I don't want to return to India". No one does and can't say as I blame them.

3 hours ago, Rams86 said:

it was a grubby way to end a relationship. She was going to milk the cow but the cow was dry.

Indeed- although she milked something for nearly 3 years?

The woman I came to Thailand to live with did the same to her American husband (that she forgot to tell me she had).

Caught him with a ladyboy, ran him down in her car (broken arm, leg, ribs) took care of him for a month, then reported him to immigration for overstay.

When they want you gone, you'll be gone ............. hopefully without all the bodily damages.

As ye sow, so shall ye harvest ye the wheat.

Nice to see manipulative users get their comeuppance, be they foreigner or Thai.

He must be a super scam artist with admirable skill set to mooch off the lady for 3 years. You would have thought Thai ladies would have moved on to the next suitor after 6 months of no financial benefits.

Indian speaks with a forked-tongue.

Maybe he was a good bounce and she worried about being a spinster.

34 minutes ago, Keeenok Powell said:

Indian speaks with a forked-tongue.

If you meet an Indian and a cobra, strike the Indian first

Famous Thai saying

https://time.com/archive/6833582/essay-discrimination-discord-in-asia/

So, he has been sponging of her for years like a leech... I think Thais would call him a "mang-da".

10 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

Mr Singh claimed to come from a wealthy, high-caste Indian family and said he had studied in several countries, including Canada, Russia and Cyprus. He also told her he was studying tourism in Singapore while working part-time, leading her to believe he was financially secure.

No red flags there.

"I'm from a super-rich, upper-class family, have spent years studying abroad at only the finest institutions of higher learning, but I'm now at a government-supported vocational school studying to be a tour guide and working part-time as an uber-eats delivery scooter driver to pay for it. Trust me, babe! Oh, could you send me $100 to pay my phone bill this month? My pension from the Royal Special Forces Advanced Magical Enchanters Division is late......."

1 hour ago, Ctkong said:

He must be a super scam artist with admirable skill set to mooch off the lady for 3 years. You would have thought Thai ladies would have moved on to the next suitor after 6 months of no financial benefits.

Seems like she was the 'scam artist' playing the long game thinking he was wealthy...

... When it finally dawned on her that he was not the wealthy heir she believed him to be she was out of there faster than a rat up a drain pipe..... and notified immigration out of pure scorn.

Perhaps she has found a new toyboy to torment.

6 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Off you pop, back to Mumbai of where ever you are from,

6 hours ago, TopThai1964 said:

typical Indian ! Cheap Charly...back to the slums of Mumbai !

Brush up on your colonial sentiments please. Sikhs typically come from the Punjab and some of the adjacent areas. More likely to have lived in Delhi than the Hindu south.

1 hour ago, Ctkong said:

He must be a super scam artist with admirable skill set to mooch off the lady for 3 years. You would have thought Thai ladies would have moved on to the next suitor after 6 months of no financial benefits.

He may have been fantastic when it came to pleasuring the lady. Many a British and Portuguese colonial occupier were smitten with the sexual delights of the Punjabi native.

7 hours ago, save the frogs said:

He's a good scam artist.

I wish I was smart enough scam a well-heeled hi-so Thai woman into paying all my expenses.

Why did it take her 3 years to realize it was a scam tho?

So good, in fact, one might say he is Presidential material.

7 hours ago, FlorC said:

Mooching off her for nearly 3 years.

That woman is tolerant.

Yeah for sure the women i find want money up front first 🤣🤣🤣

6 hours ago, BritManToo said:

The woman I came to Thailand to live with did the same to her American husband (that she forgot to tell me she had).

Caught him with a ladyboy, ran him down in her car (broken arm, leg, ribs) took care of him for a month, then reported him to immigration for overstay.

When they want you gone, you'll be gone ............. hopefully without all the bodily damages.

indeed Hell has no fury.... and all that

At last... a popular punching bag arrived! The great boxers are having a good time!

3 years with this parasite sponging off her.....didn't she learn quickly.

3 months would have surely been enough.