Fake Call Centre In Bangkok Stormed, Foreigners Arrested

[raybal5]

Still baffles me how people can be so gullible.

Some govt sponsored ads on tv should be done in each country... It wont be long and these scammers will be out of business.

Educate the people.... !!!

BRB, I have someone calling me about an amazing investment...........

Hello good sir may the lord find you well on this lovely day my name is Tomas from Nigeria and I am representing the most prestigious law firm in Abuja.

We need your help to be releasing the funds of a very wealthy investor who died naming in his will a man of your name...................................

[pete66]

Never had a phone call and I have been here 10 years. I am carefull who knows my phone number. I suppose if you give it out to some called low life in a bar thinking he is your new found friend when you have had a few drinks.

Then you are a prime target

The above companies get their contacts from websites for teachers by advertising a job and then browsing the resumes thus getting contact details. I have no time for these scum but in truth I have no time for idiots who fall for this kind of scam.

I also think it is about time a certain member was blocked from this site due to his or her racist views.

If I was in that line of business I dont think I'd be targeting teachers.

That's exactly who I would target. Many teachers are well known for living beyond their means, its not difficult on their wages. So they are easy targets for many kinds of illegal activities. Not saying all teachers sign up, of course not, just they are definitely a group gangs go after. And besides, teachers are hard to ignore. Seems to be two out of every three farangs in Bangkok are teachers

[spidermike007]

Ok The foreigners were arrested and are being held , but what about the Thais? were they set free Or what?

And what other thai scammers are being pursued? How many jet ski scammers are spending time in jail? Zero. How many others? Justice is a good thing, but must be fair, and evenly applied. Not just applied to those who do not pay off the police.

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[Cardiff1963]

So THIS is why the EU's going bankrupt

Because of scams in Thailand? Please inform EU governments, you may, just have saved them

[Suradit69]

Still baffles me how people can be so gullible.

Some govt sponsored ads on tv should be done in each country... It wont be long and these scammers will be out of business.

Educate the people.... !!!

BRB, I have someone calling me about an amazing investment...........

It's a bit like the Nigerian emails announcing that Western Union is holding your $675,000 or that you've just won a lottery based on your email address or that your PayPal account has been suspended or that Thailand is shifting from driving in the left hand lane to the right hand. While they seem to be far fewer in number lately, they're still being sent out, which must imply they still get some replies. I find it difficult to believe people are still getting sucked in by those ... or that they ever fell for them for that matter.

[khunken]

Operating out of a Thong Lor office - hmmmm. For how long?

I'm always suspicious of events in that area due to the 'excellent' reputation of the Thong Lor police.

[HarryMilton]

Will this slow down the opening of Irish pubs in Bkk and the conversion of Soi Cowboy bars to coyote clip joints for money laundering purposes?

Why do you pick on Irish pubs and Soi Cowboy? Do you have some information you'd like to share or are you just speculating on who-owns-what?

[HarryMilton]

Never had a phone call and I have been here 10 years. I am carefull who knows my phone number. I suppose if you give it out to some called low life in a bar thinking he is your new found friend when you have had a few drinks.

Then you are a prime target

They don't target people in Thailand according to reports, that is one reason they are allowed to operate (for a limited period of time!) so you'll never be bothered.

[HarryMilton]

Never had a phone call and I have been here 10 years. I am carefull who knows my phone number. I suppose if you give it out to some called low life in a bar thinking he is your new found friend when you have had a few drinks.

Then you are a prime target

The above companies get their contacts from websites for teachers by advertising a job and then browsing the resumes thus getting contact details. I have no time for these scum but in truth I have no time for idiots who fall for this kind of scam.

I also think it is about time a certain member was blocked from this site due to his or her racist views.

Why would fraudsters target teachers? They're trying to make money; don't think teachers are the ideal targets!

[HarryMilton]

Those Westerners probably deserved to get scammed. You can't fool an honest person only greedy persons.

Balderdash!

[HarryMilton]

Still baffles me how people can be so gullible.

Some govt sponsored ads on tv should be done in each country... It wont be long and these scammers will be out of business.

Educate the people.... !!!

BRB, I have someone calling me about an amazing investment...........

Hello good sir may the lord find you well on this lovely day my name is Tomas from Nigeria and I am representing the most prestigious law firm in Abuja.

We need your help to be releasing the funds of a very wealthy investor who died naming in his will a man of your name...................................

What's Nigeria got to do with this thread?

[HarryMilton]

Never had a phone call and I have been here 10 years. I am carefull who knows my phone number. I suppose if you give it out to some called low life in a bar thinking he is your new found friend when you have had a few drinks.

Then you are a prime target

The above companies get their contacts from websites for teachers by advertising a job and then browsing the resumes thus getting contact details. I have no time for these scum but in truth I have no time for idiots who fall for this kind of scam.

I also think it is about time a certain member was blocked from this site due to his or her racist views.

If I was in that line of business I dont think I'd be targeting teachers.

That's exactly who I would target. Many teachers are well known for living beyond their means, its not difficult on their wages. So they are easy targets for many kinds of illegal activities. Not saying all teachers sign up, of course not, just they are definitely a group gangs go after. And besides, teachers are hard to ignore. Seems to be two out of every three farangs in Bangkok are teachers

Most nonsensical post of the day.

[mic59]

I just had a call about an investment to triple my money in 3 weeks time. Unfortunately I could not take it as I was already taking a call from someone who was going to help me lengthen my penis.

Edited April 4, 2013 by mic59

[rbrooks]

Ok The foreigners were arrested and are being held , but what about the Thais? were they set free Or what?

They formed a Thai Call Center

[atyclb]

Ok The foreigners were arrested and are being held , but what about the Thais? were they set free Or what?

Why would the Thais be arrested as they were working in an occupation prohibited for foreigners....... scamming

[fasteddie]

do people still fall for this kind of crap ? do people actually give away their money to strangers after a phonecall ???

Yeah how can you have sympathy for greedy idiots?

[Arkady]

Will this slow down the opening of Irish pubs in Bkk and the conversion of Soi Cowboy bars to coyote clip joints for money laundering purposes?

Why do you pick on Irish pubs and Soi Cowboy? Do you have some information you'd like to share or are you just speculating on who-owns-what?

I am not going to name and shame but rumour has it that money earned from boiler room operations has been ploughed into certain Irish bars in Bkk and is also laundered through the bars in Cowboy that have switched to the Wanchai style coyote format that entice newbies to spend a huge sum of money buying drinks all night for the coyote under the misapprehension they will be able to buy them out at the end of the evening. These businesses all operate on cash. So the trick is to overstate the sales significantly and pump extra cash into the bank accounts as revenues, pay some tax on it and bingo you've laundered the cash which you then pay out as dividends to shareholders, salaries and bonuses to management etc. The tax paid is the cost of laundering the money.

Edited April 4, 2013 by Arkady

[tomyumchai]

i know a bunch of tightwad 'greedy' people that have invested money in a company called 'sound oil'. anyone ever heard of that company. what amuses me more is that they are all regular visitors to thailand and the most 'keeneow' millionaires youll ever meet. im wondering where they got this great investment from as they havnt had a penny back yet..

...........i didnt invest, im poorer than a BKK teacher......

[Joe Mamma]

Don't trust farangs here ,present company accepted.

[Buchholz]

Police and Department of Special Investigation (DSI) officers broke into the offices of the Capital Consultant Management company

Police said there were nine foreigners and several Thai nationals in the racket. The nine non-Thai suspects were from Canada, the UK, the US and Latvia.

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Video of the raid and arrests:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F5cfZtP4EM#!

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Edited April 5, 2013 by Buchholz

[HarryMilton]

Will this slow down the opening of Irish pubs in Bkk and the conversion of Soi Cowboy bars to coyote clip joints for money laundering purposes?

Why do you pick on Irish pubs and Soi Cowboy? Do you have some information you'd like to share or are you just speculating on who-owns-what?

I am not going to name and shame but rumour has it that money earned from boiler room operations has been ploughed into certain Irish bars in Bkk and is also laundered through the bars in Cowboy that have switched to the Wanchai style coyote format that entice newbies to spend a huge sum of money buying drinks all night for the coyote under the misapprehension they will be able to buy them out at the end of the evening. These businesses all operate on cash. So the trick is to overstate the sales significantly and pump extra cash into the bank accounts as revenues, pay some tax on it and bingo you've laundered the cash which you then pay out as dividends to shareholders, salaries and bonuses to management etc. The tax paid is the cost of laundering the money.

You're not prepared to back up your post but you are happy to jump on the rumour bandwagon. Pointless post then?

You do seem to be well-informed about money laundering though.

[YeahSiam]

Police and Department of Special Investigation (DSI) officers broke into the offices of the Capital Consultant Management company

Police said there were nine foreigners and several Thai nationals in the racket. The nine non-Thai suspects were from Canada, the UK, the US and Latvia.

.

Video of the raid and arrests:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F5cfZtP4EM#!

Oh xxxx. I've seen a couple of those faces out and about at some of the clubs in Sukhumvit disappearing into the toilets only to reappear 10 minutes later wiping their noses

Edited April 6, 2013 by metisdead

[candypants]

Will this slow down the opening of Irish pubs in Bkk and the conversion of Soi Cowboy bars to coyote clip joints for money laundering purposes?

Why do you pick on Irish pubs and Soi Cowboy? Do you have some information you'd like to share or are you just speculating on who-owns-what?

there is very little speculation involved, especially where irish pubs are concerned.

[HardenedSoul]

So THIS is why the EU's going bankrupt

If you've got nothing relevant to say, it's probably better not to post

[Buchholz]

Police and Department of Special Investigation (DSI) officers broke into the offices of the Capital Consultant Management company

Police said there were nine foreigners and several Thai nationals in the racket. The nine non-Thai suspects were from Canada, the UK, the US and Latvia.

.

Video of the raid and arrests:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F5cfZtP4EM#!

Oh xxxx. I've seen a couple of those faces out and about at some of the clubs in Sukhumvit disappearing into the toilets only to reappear 10 minutes later wiping their noses

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They don't look too happy.

Wonder how many of them were regular contributors to the business sub-forums.

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[KhaoNiaw]

Raided while the director wasn't there, leaving him 'at large'. That was bad luck ...

[PlastikbinLina]

If they are guilty then I hope they get what they deserve and rot in Bang Kwang for a few years. These types of thieving bastards are just parasites.

[meom]

Will this slow down the opening of Irish pubs in Bkk and the conversion of Soi Cowboy bars to coyote clip joints for money laundering purposes?

Why do you pick on Irish pubs and Soi Cowboy? Do you have some information you'd like to share or are you just speculating on who-owns-what?

I am not going to name and shame but rumour has it that money earned from boiler room operations has been ploughed into certain Irish bars in Bkk and is also laundered through the bars in Cowboy that have switched to the Wanchai style coyote format that entice newbies to spend a huge sum of money buying drinks all night for the coyote under the misapprehension they will be able to buy them out at the end of the evening. These businesses all operate on cash. So the trick is to overstate the sales significantly and pump extra cash into the bank accounts as revenues, pay some tax on it and bingo you've laundered the cash which you then pay out as dividends to shareholders, salaries and bonuses to management etc. The tax paid is the cost of laundering the money.

Wouldn't it be more easy to book the bar fines and increase the sales figures by inflating the number of bar fines?

[dighambara]

Still baffles me how people can be so gullible.

Some govt sponsored ads on tv should be done in each country... It wont be long and these scammers will be out of business.

Educate the people.... !!!

BRB, I have someone calling me about an amazing investment...........

Uneducated people are easier to manipulate - hence the Bangkok Government does not push such ideas. A population of Mushrooms is much preferred.