webfact Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 6 foreigners arrested in online investment scam Crime Suppression Division police have arrested four Britons, a Filipino woman and a French man for having allegedly deceiving foreign investors to buy stocks online and cheated them. Pol Maj Gen Panya Mamen, deputy Central Investigation Bureau commissioner, said the six foreigners were arrested at a house on Soi Thonglor while deceiving foreigners to invest in stock markets through Internet. Police seized seven desktop computers, six notebook computers and 31 mobile phones from the house. Information from the seized computers showed that they had deceived the investors to invest over Bt100 million in fake firms. The foreigners claimed that they were hired by a man identified only as Paul for Bt30,000 to Bt50,000 a month to make phone calls. -- The Nation 2009/09/19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammered Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 These seem to crop up every few years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAWP Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Name of the company please? As some investment-firms have recently been calling my office a lot and asking to come and give consultation-meetings which I have always declined... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 .....they had deceived the investors to invest over Bt100 million in fake firms... Anyone who invests in a company without checking that it exists, deserves to be parted from their money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurasianthai Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 6 foreigners arrested in online investment scamCrime Suppression Division police have arrested four Britons, a Filipino woman and a French man for having allegedly deceiving foreign investors to buy stocks online and cheated them. Great one. Foreigners can't cheat foreigners in Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajsp9 Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 .....they had deceived the investors to invest over Bt100 million in fake firms... Anyone who invests in a company without checking that it exists, deserves to be parted from their money. Bit harsh, sometimes people make poor rash decisions without first checking the facts, but hardly deserving of being scammed from their hard earned money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Reed Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 6 foreigners arrested in online investment scamCrime Suppression Division police have arrested four Britons, a Filipino woman and a French man for having allegedly deceiving foreign investors to buy stocks online and cheated them. Pol Maj Gen Panya Mamen, deputy Central Investigation Bureau commissioner, said the six foreigners were arrested at a house on Soi Thonglor while deceiving foreigners to invest in stock markets through Internet. Police seized seven desktop computers, six notebook computers and 31 mobile phones from the house. Information from the seized computers showed that they had deceived the investors to invest over Bt100 million in fake firms. The foreigners claimed that they were hired by a man identified only as Paul for Bt30,000 to Bt50,000 a month to make phone calls. -- The Nation 2009/09/19 Cant wait for the photos and news reports of all the back slapping police chiefs lined up behind a table of 6 nervous looking farangs, as they claim to be cleaning up the image of dodgy businesses in LOS, as the hunt goes on for 'Paul' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussimike Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 .....they had deceived the investors to invest over Bt100 million in fake firms... Anyone who invests in a company without checking that it exists, deserves to be parted from their money. Bit harsh, sometimes people make poor rash decisions without first checking the facts, but hardly deserving of being scammed from their hard earned money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY ARE EASILY PARTED --- NUF SAID Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedBusinessPerson Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Wonder if they advertised here in this forum:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huskerpr Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 .....they had deceived the investors to invest over Bt100 million in fake firms... Anyone who invests in a company without checking that it exists, deserves to be parted from their money. Nobody deserves to be purposely cheated...<snip> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thormaturge Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 6 foreigners arrested in online investment scamCrime Suppression Division police have arrested four Britons, a Filipino woman and a French man The police simply need to ask the four Brits who the ringleader was and I'm sure the entire matter will be resolved in no time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Changian Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 The police simply need to ask the four Brits who the ringleader was and I'm sure the entire matter will be resolved in no time. They did. He's called Paul. But somehow I think he is a lot smarter than the people he hired to do the calling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxe1200 Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 .....they had deceived the investors to invest over Bt100 million in fake firms... Anyone who invests in a company without checking that it exists, deserves to be parted from their money. Mathew 5,3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjaidee Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 6 foreigners arrested in online investment scamCrime Suppression Division police have arrested four Britons, a Filipino woman and a French man for having allegedly deceiving foreign investors to buy stocks online and cheated them. Pol Maj Gen Panya Mamen, deputy Central Investigation Bureau commissioner, said the six foreigners were arrested at a house on Soi Thonglor while deceiving foreigners to invest in stock markets through Internet. Police seized seven desktop computers, six notebook computers and 31 mobile phones from the house. Information from the seized computers showed that they had deceived the investors to invest over Bt100 million in fake firms. The foreigners claimed that they were hired by a man identified only as Paul for Bt30,000 to Bt50,000 a month to make phone calls. -- The Nation 2009/09/19 Interesting that they call it an online scam. The foreigners were paid to make phone calls rather than type emails. Sounds like another typical boiler room to me. Maybe they were using Skype to make the calls. I guess then it would be online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerringDo Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Yup, every once in a while people are busted for scams like this. Arrest them and deport them. We don't need them based here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Thanks for this story. I've been looking for investments and I'll stay away from these local deals. As soon as I get that really big deposit from that nice Nigerian guy, I am going to invest some of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Jobs at Thai Visa have plenty of network jobs going Obviously Thai Visa jobs can't vet all that come through, wonder how many may have links to this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webfact Posted September 19, 2009 Author Share Posted September 19, 2009 Yup, every once in a while people are busted for scams like this.Arrest them and deport them. We don't need them based here. could you kindly elaborate on who is meant with we ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontius Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 .....they had deceived the investors to invest over Bt100 million in fake firms... Anyone who invests in a company without checking that it exists, deserves to be parted from their money. Bit harsh, sometimes people make poor rash decisions without first checking the facts, but hardly deserving of being scammed from their hard earned money Oh, a skin rash decision. We don't want people to do those... Seriously, not too smart to invest in non existing companies cause some stranger called you and told you to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinBloodyWilson Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 6 foreigners arrested in online investment scamCrime Suppression Division police have arrested four Britons, a Filipino woman and a French man for having allegedly deceiving foreign investors to buy stocks online and cheated them. Pol Maj Gen Panya Mamen, deputy Central Investigation Bureau commissioner, said the six foreigners were arrested at a house on Soi Thonglor while deceiving foreigners to invest in stock markets through Internet. Police seized seven desktop computers, six notebook computers and 31 mobile phones from the house. Information from the seized computers showed that they had deceived the investors to invest over Bt100 million in fake firms. The foreigners claimed that they were hired by a man identified only as Paul for Bt30,000 to Bt50,000 a month to make phone calls. -- The Nation 2009/09/19 Cant wait for the photos and news reports of all the back slapping police chiefs lined up behind a table of 6 nervous looking farangs, as they claim to be cleaning up the image of dodgy businesses in LOS, as the hunt goes on for 'Paul' Might be quite nice of the BiB were so assiduous and efficient in picking up Thais who cheat foreigners. Sorry, I don't know what I could have been thinking, saying that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skettios Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 (edited) The most disgusting part of all of this, is that this guy wasn't operating alone. Obviously those staff members were not going after Thais. The question remains where did they get the phone numbers from? They weren't just randomly dialing hoping to get a farang on the line. They were probably sold a list of phone numbers from someone. Last year I was getting a lot of phonecalls from investment companies. I'm fairly certain the only organization that had my number was my bank. The purple one. I hope someone would run down this side of the equation, but I really doubt it will ever happen. Edited September 19, 2009 by skettios Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAWP Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 I'm sure they are able to buy numbers from directory-services regarding companies with foreign, partly or full, ownership. Seems that was how they found us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboras Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Thanks for this story. I've been looking for investments and I'll stay away from these local deals. As soon as I get that really big deposit from that nice Nigerian guy, I am going to invest some of it! Sorry Scott I am first in line for that deposit... poor guy had his family shot so he can give me millions!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petercallen Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Seems to me there are as many foreigners working scams in Thailand as Thais, maybe a post on Thai visa forum should be started about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeincnx Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Oh, and I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. Caveat emptor in spades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
z21rhd Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 WHAT a Super destination, take a holiday snap, get arrested - give people money, lose it in a Thai style Nigerian SCAM,. Get blown to pieces in southern Thailand. Get delayed by yellow/red shirt activities. Don't hire a jet Ski. Get ripped off at Thailand's main airport on arrival or when you have had enough. Malaysia is a lot more honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eileenchog Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 There was a man that came here some years ago and ran a scam involving a false company and his name was said to be Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reboi Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 I hope my dear terribly British, holier than thou, friend Allan in Ban Khwau reads this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superknot Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 another con-artist foreigner in Bangkok scamming money! What about this place attracts them? This website announced a recent case right here, again in our own backyard: www.accelon-asia.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loong Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 The most disgusting part of all of this, is that this guy wasn't operating alone. Obviously those staff members were not going after Thais. The question remains where did they get the phone numbers from?They weren't just randomly dialing hoping to get a farang on the line. They were probably sold a list of phone numbers from someone. Last year I was getting a lot of phonecalls from investment companies. I'm fairly certain the only organization that had my number was my bank. The purple one. I hope someone would run down this side of the equation, but I really doubt it will ever happen. You may note that many advertisments that appear in your browser are uncannily relevant to your emails. Nearly every free "whatever" that you sign up to online requires a phone number...Why?...Because those phone numbers are sold on. I periodically open a new email account with yahoo in order to sign up to some websites, using a fake but believable phone number. Of course, you get all the scam emails, but you don't get the phone calls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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