iTV (a local Thai TV station) aired a documentary on Saturday, February 22, about a Thai man who was scammed 200,000 baht by a Thai lady in another town via email, who he met on a dating service.

She sent him her photo and mobile number, spoke politely, offered a relationship and implicitly sex, and cried on the phone saying she needed hospital money or she would die of leukemia. After sending the money to her bank, he got suspicious. An iTV crew with a private investigator tracked her down.

She was a fat and ugly lady with a computer, photos of pretty ladies in her room (some who she knew), and lots of money.

This is not uncommon, as well as similar scams using email, mobile phones, landline call centers and proxies to answer the phones. Expats overseas are more vulnerable, but the scammers do these kinds of things to Thai men, too.

These scams hurt innocent Thai ladies "by association" (nationality). Many Thai ladies are sincere. However, the email scams are on a rapid rise.

There is another article about Thai lady email and telephone scams on the Thailand Private Investigations website at

http://www.ThailandPI.com (the owner is a former Thai journalist but the website is mostly English)

iTV might do a follow-on story, because the lady was caught alone, not very cooperative, and it appeared that she had some accomplices.

Unfortunately, the iTV programme is in Thai.

--SCT

Well as the old saying goes 'A fool and his money are easily parted'.

  It still amazes me to this day the amount of idiots who send money to all these thai girls that they meet in chatrooms etc, and on the internet etc.

  No wonder the thais think we are a bunch of idiotic walking ATM's, when fools do things like that.

Sounds as though this lady could easily get a job with a government department or even better possibly one of the majour banks...or maybe she already does :blues: