DSI warns Thai women not to fall prey to Facebook beaus

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Tarit warns women not to fall prey to Facebook beaus
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Tarit Pengdith, Department of Special Investigation (DSI) chief, yesterday warned Thai women to be careful of foreigners wooing them via Facebook and then duping them into wiring money.

The DSI recently found that some 1,000 victims had been lured into wiring a total of Bt60 million to a Nigerian gang.

He said that these Nigerians usually made their victims believe they were white European males working in Malaysia and, after assessing victim's financial status, would claim to have encountered some problems and ask the women for money.

The DSI chief said his agency was waiting for arrest warrants for two Thais and three Nigerian accomplices.


-- The Nation 2013-09-19

[Thai at Heart]

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Tarit warns women not to fall prey to Facebook beaus

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Tarit Pengdith, Department of Special Investigation (DSI) chief, yesterday warned Thai women to be careful of foreigners wooing them via Facebook and then duping them into wiring money.

The DSI recently found that some 1,000 victims had been lured into wiring a total of Bt60 million to a Nigerian gang.

He said that these Nigerians usually made their victims believe they were white European males working in Malaysia and, after assessing victim's financial status, would claim to have encountered some problems and ask the women for money.

The DSI chief said his agency was waiting for arrest warrants for two Thais and three Nigerian accomplices.

-- The Nation 2013-09-19

1000 victims?

Oh please.... those nasty cheating foreigners preying on such sweet and innocent Thai women.

Lololol

[lujanit]

Thai women using the internet being ripped off. Must be a misprint. Is not it that it is the other way around? Mind you there are some pretty dumb farangs out there.

[MarcThanyaburi]

yes darling we should buy a house a car ...10 baht of gold and in your name ... .....

[NomadJoe]

Turnabouts fair play.

[bigbamboo]

The biter bit.

[somtampet]

Must be worrying for thai women

I have read so many posts on different forums about mongers try to prey on nice thai women,rather than paying for hookers.

These are the true cheap charlies,who think they can pick up a sweet lady 30 years younger than themselves and seduce them for a tourist mongers holiday,no barfine to pay,and actualy think they can have sex with them for free, dream on mongers..

[MaxLee]

SOCIAL NETWORK

Tarit warns women not to fall prey to Facebook beaus

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Tarit Pengdith, Department of Special Investigation (DSI) chief, yesterday warned Thai women to be careful of foreigners wooing them via Facebook and then duping them into wiring money.

The DSI recently found that some 1,000 victims had been lured into wiring a total of Bt60 million to a Nigerian gang.

He said that these Nigerians usually made their victims believe they were white European males working in Malaysia and, after assessing victim's financial status, would claim to have encountered some problems and ask the women for money.

The DSI chief said his agency was waiting for arrest warrants for two Thais and three Nigerian accomplices.

-- The Nation 2013-09-19

1000 victims?

Oh please.... those nasty cheating foreigners preying on such sweet and innocent Thai women.

Lololol

How about those greedy monks, Redbull heirs, cold blooded Thonhlor actor murderers and innocent JUST CONFUSED miss universe kids that walk free and are above the law beyond murder???

[Psych01]

I wonder how many foriegners have had the same dine to them, 1m, 2m or 3m or more? Pay back?

[Artisi]

Might be time the tables were turned, just think of all those poor innocent dumb farang guys that have been getting ripped-off for years, time for some revenge.

Also, it's heartening to see the DSI concentrating on the important matters which affect Thailand.

[jaltsc]

"The DSI recently found that some 1,000 victims had been lured into wiring a total of Bt60 million to a Nigerian gang."

1,000, huh? Well I suppose another 49,000 need to be duped before we hit the break even number of farang men who have been duped by Thai women .

[bangkokheat]

thats the way thailand, look after your own and not the hands that feed you, how about a warning to foreigners about getting ripped by thais, be nice to balance the books

[uty6543]

I dislike people that breaking the law so If I set up a facebook account and many Thai ladies send me money would I need a work permit?

[LuckyLew]

turn about is fair play

[meatboy]

shouldnt this be in the joke section.

[RickeyParkany]

*...Nigerians posing as rich Euros...*:

...a Classic; gotta give these *Ferengi* Nigerians /some/ credit, but I don't know which kind...any takers?! ;-} rap.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Ferengi

[NongKhaiKid]

Might be time the tables were turned, just think of all those poor innocent dumb farang guys that have been getting ripped-off for years, time for some revenge.

Also, it's heartening to see the DSI concentrating on the important matters which affect Thailand.

DSI is waiting for 5 arrests warrants for 2 Thais and 3 Nigerians but given their recent track record will they ever actually find them far less enforce the warrants ?

[Baerboxer]

Interesting on how the scamers find people to prey on. There must be lots of Thai ladies out there who think that finding and marrying a farang will bring a happier and more convenient life.

There are lots of "ladies" throughout Asia who scam gullible Westerners into sending them cash. Either thinking they are their boyfriends, potential husbands or just lonely and fall for the "sob stories" and tales of desperation. Enterprising of the Nigerians to turn this round. I've read reports of well-off well educated Western women being scammed by younger African males.

The danger of social media - some people are trustworthy, keen to make "friends" and chat on social media and very unaware of the dangers or security issues. Sitting safely behind a keyboard seems to make some people lower their guard and become much more prone to abuse.

Well done Tarit in making this public.

[FireMedic]

Thainess Promotion: For the last 50 years Thai women have proudly taking foreign men's money to buy themselves, family, and friends everything under the sun. It is customary and accepted that a Thai lady milks a foreign man for as much as possible before she dumps him and gets a new milker on deck. Another common practice is to have married one foreign man, while 10 others are sending money every month because they think they are the boyfriends. Common "family emergencies" spring up on a daily basis ranging from sickness (familly,animals,cars,bikes etc.), to financial crisis for someone in the family, bail money for brother, bribe money for officials, all the way to "baby I wan new Iphone." This is all very well known and not only accepted, but encouraged here in Thailand. If, for whatever reason, a man swindles a few thousand baht from a Thai lady....pretty much Thailand grinds to a halt, local police, DSI, family members, and everyone else will open a full investigation and people will go to jail one way or another. A recent study was done that stated: For every 1 baht stolen, taken, or swindled from Thai ladies by foreign men, 156,374,945.03 baht was taken by Thai ladies from foreign men.

[cekipa]

This shows how the world can go the other way round. How many farangs scammed by 'teerak, send me money for sick buffalo' would like now to be in these Nigerian shoes ?

[Frank James]

Man, we've got some bitter guys on here today! Have a heart.

Cheering for Nigerian scammers. Unbelievable.

[arminbkk]

I have chatted with Thai women and some have asked

me if it is true that a foreigner, while on the way to meet them, need money for a visa or transit, as the foreigner got stuck at some airport.

The guy then asked the lady for money to help him out, promising to pay it back upon meeting.

Of course, the foreigner would then come up with some excuse (taking care of sick father/mother etc) and not show up.

I told those ladies that as soon as anyone starts talking/asking about money: block/delete!

Why on earth would anyone ever send money to someone you don't know?

Or the lady would send me their e-mail correspondence and ask me for my opinion as to how sincere the foreigner is.

I would then explain to the lady that no honest foreigner would write about 'profound love', 'love of my love', 'dying to marry you',

'my mother approves of you', 'let's buy land and house together', etc etc, after only 2 e-mails (not even chat) and only exchange a few pictures.

Some would show me the picture of the guy in question: usually a white western male.

The lady would then say she felt a bit stupid being fooled like this, and I would say that yes it is a bit stupid.

I think it must be some degree of desperation that allows these women to be fooled like this.

[drdoom6996]

Might be time the tables were turned, just think of all those poor innocent dumb farang guys that have been getting ripped-off for years, time for some revenge.

Also, it's heartening to see the DSI concentrating on the important matters which affect Thailand.

DSI is waiting for 5 arrests warrants for 2 Thais and 3 Nigerians but given their recent track record will they ever actually find them far less enforce the warrants ?

Must be stacking the arrest warrants with the rice in warehouses.

[newermonkey]

What the news item failed to mention is that the Thai women thought they were conning a farang and just went along with sending money thinking there was an open opportunity to eventually cheat them.

How funny... The cheaters getting cheated!

[tingtongteesood]

Surely the rest of the world has been ripped off by bar girls taking contributions from a dozen different part time lovers for far far more and far longer than this.....

[lee b]

I dont know any Thai women who would fall for this.

[uty6543]

Man, we've got some bitter guys on here today! Have a heart.

Cheering for Nigerian scammers. Unbelievable.

I couldn't understand why guys would be cheering on the Nigerian scammers either. Maybe these are the same ones that have lost money to Thai ladies because they didn't take sensible precautions to protect their money.

[bander]

Thai women using the internet being ripped off. Must be a misprint. Is not it that it is the other way around? Mind you there are some pretty dumb farangs out there.

Thai women ripping of stupid farangs, but then get ripped of by Nigerians, "som num na"

[WhizBang]

Is this really what the DSI needs to be working on? High crimes, indeed.

No worries, just another get your face in the media event.

[Emdog]

"dog bites man" not news

"Thai woman rips off farang" not news

"man bites dog" that is news

"Farang rips off Thai woman" that is news

DSI upset because it is an outflow of money from here, not income