Nigerian man, Thai woman arrested for online fraud

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Nigerian man, Thai woman arrested for online fraud
By Digital Content



BANGKOK, Aug 28 -- Police from the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) arrested Nigerian Stanley Onyekwere and Thai Anchulee Siriwong at their rented room in Bangkok's Bueng Kum district as their gang had used emails to lure a Taiwanese steel company into transferring about Bt4.6 million baht to their bank accounts.

The suspects admitted to the fraud and identified many accomplices.

Police carried a court warrant to make the arrest and are hunting other accomplices.

TCSD Commander Pol Maj Gen Siripong Timula warned business operators to verify information before making any financial transaction with an online business partner. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2014-08-28

[zaphod reborn]

A Nigerian using email to scam? Say it ain't so. Good work Sherlock Holmes!

[marcusd]

It must have been an elaborate scan to get a Taiwanese steel company hooked. One less scammer is great news.

[Chicog]

I wonder if he will pay his fine with a dodgy credit card or Western Union?

[jacky54]

we need to know his name, date of birth, address and bank account number!

[transam]

I wonder if he will pay his fine with a dodgy credit card or Western Union?

I suspect every household in the UK has now received his junk mail to fix his problem via a scam that will pay dividends.........

[changsinghleo]

These arrest cases always look like photo ops for the police. Look at them, all prepped for the cameras, posing, etc. Surely they must ask, "Are we going to be on t.v.?"

[Costas2008]

What I want to know, is this Taiwanese company and it's directors so naïve as to transfer 4.6 million baht to the scammers accounts?

If, as I suspect, they are, I'm not sorry for them loosing the money.

[Baerboxer]

What I want to know, is this Taiwanese company and it's directors so naïve as to transfer 4.6 million baht to the scammers accounts?

If, as I suspect, they are, I'm not sorry for them loosing the money.

Not everyone in the world is as sharp and alert as you. They don't give details of the scam but it must be a good one to land companies like that.

Some governments even fall victim to scammers - just look at the Eurozone for starters.

[SteveFong]

Nigerian's.........nothing but a wart on the butt of humanity.

checking map to see if Nigeria is on the Ebola hit list

surely, the CIA has no intentions of having people on that continent when they begin the new America

[Lex Talionis]

'Nother quick confession. It'd knock me on my a$$ if one report ever stated the "suspect" lawyered up & is standing mute. (been back in the States 1 month and already the Thainess is draining out of my boots)

[Tokay]

Nigerians and email scams go hand and hand like Thais and... well, scams.

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Two held for e-mail fraud
The Nation



BANGKOK: -- A Nigerian man and his alleged Thai accomplice were held for e-mail fraud, accused of duping a Taiwanese firm into wiring Bt4.6 million.

The Technology Crime Suppression Division commander, Pol Maj-General Siripong Timula, presented Stanley Onyaewae, 27, and Anchulee Siriwong, 34, along with a computer notebook, three mobile phones and a tablet computer to the press yesterday.

He said the suspects, nabbed at an apartment in Bangkok's Bueng Kum district on Tuesday, had allegedly joined other Nigerian gangsters to create an e-mail address similar to that of a Thai construction company to trick its Taiwanese client to wire Bt4.6 million for metal joints to Anchulee's bank account in April.

The woman reportedly confessed that she was asked by the gang to open the account in exchange for a 5-per-cent share of the amount wired. Siripong urged businesses that contacted clients via e-mail to check messages regularly, put in place a firewall and create more than two ways to contact clients, so as to prevent fraud.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Two-held-for-e-mail-fraud-30242026.html


-- The Nation 2014-08-29

[shirtless]

Throw the book at them, theres more scammers these days than honest people.

[bobl]

These b'stard giving Nigerians a bad name...

Thank God mine's legit - His Highness Major General The Reverend Professor Prince Ombuku emailed me only today, to let me know my ATM card loaded with $20M will be in the post as soon as he receives my Western Union.

[bendejo]

Very confusing photo, why is there no one pointing?

I demand a reenactment!

Edited August 29, 2014 by bendejo

[tx22cb]

If guilty, I hope he's extradited to Taiwan pronto.

Better than him being sent to a Thai prison, where no doubt he would try to operate another scam from the cells on Thai soil.

[Lupatria]

African scams and Asian greed- what a smooth combination. I wonder if the guy entered the country on a quality tourist- foreign talent- or business-scammer visa.

[bander]

These b'stard giving Nigerians a bad name...

Thank God mine's legit - His Highness Major General The Reverend Professor Prince Ombuku emailed me only today, to let me know my ATM card loaded with $20M will be in the post as soon as he receives my Western Union.

Prince Ombuku is a generous guy, giving a way $20M to every person on this planet with an email address.

[realenglish1]

for the Nigerien guy Looks good on you you moron

[wvavin]

Its always those shits from Nigeria!

[TheFishman1]

I always get google alter to change my password someone in Nigeria is trying to hack my email

[ingvar]

Is this the one where a Princess from a rich miniature African country that nobody ever heard about before, need to access some bank account in Switzerland and need your help to get the money??

[Cake Monster]

It is beyond comprehension that a very large company have allowed themselves to be scammed in this manner.

Very unprofessional, and expensive

[klauskunkel]

From the info in the OP and the follow-up, I think the Nigerian gang had previously hacked into the Thai company's email account and then used that info to make the Taiwanese client of the Thai company pay for their order.

[GuyL]

I don't understand how people can fall for those scams.

By the way, I am temporarily in trouble because Yahoo is still working on my email account that was about to be suspended, but as soon as the technical support team has done the necessary maintenance tasks for which they needed my password, I will be able to contact my foreign Attorney representative in Benin Republic to make him pay for my Russian online bride's flight ticket with some of the money I won with the Microsoft Email Lottery International as they must have received my payment for their security keeping fee by now!

In the meanwhile, if someone could help me with the payment of my recently rejected tax transfer, it would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Edited August 29, 2014 by GuyL

[joebrown]

In my pre LOS working life I occasionaly came into contact with police investigating financial fraud cases. You may notice that many Nigerian surnames begin and end with a vowel, as in this particular post. I was surprised to learn from a Fraud Squad officer in the 1980s that several large banks had set up computer programmes to monitor 'unusual' transactions on all customer accounts holding a surname beginning and ending with a vowel. These 'unusual' transactions were reported to the police by the banks in order to highlight possible money laundering and drug dealing sources. Nowadays internet crime has evolved and and the felons have moved with the times.

[Bigdogphish]

This scam most likely is a repeat of another similar one. They infiltrate the email account of a local business that is already doing business with Taiwan, needing a hacker or an inside person, the Thai. They redirect emails and see the pattern of any payments requested and made. Then a payment request is made and they simply provide a new account number.

[empireboy]

What I want to know, is this Taiwanese company and it's directors so naïve as to transfer 4.6 million baht to the scammers accounts?

If, as I suspect, they are, I'm not sorry for them loosing the money.

That's a bit harsh! Should we not have an expectation of decency from humans in general or do we always need to be living the 'Cynical' life, never trusting anyone. Not to mention that the best Scammers are very thorough and whilst I'm very glad one has been caught, I fail to understand how any evolved human being could be happy about the demise of the innocent and guiltless whose real error was only that of ignorance... I hope you don't have any children to keep your cynicism lineage going!

[sanuk711]

Wow fraud.....I guess these two will be heading for the Thai-Visa death squad then...........

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"a Taiwanese steel company into transferring about Bt4.6 million baht to their bank accounts."

Really -- I think someone should also be talking to the accountant that signs the cheq for that company----