Thaivisa News Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Chiang Mai: – The Department of Special Investigation has raided a Lamphun home and arrested two gang members involved in the lottery scam. The scam is estimated to have defrauded some 611 victims for 760 million baht. DSI director-general Suwana Suwanjata said two fraud suspects were arrested, one volunteered to report to the authorities and another was arranging to surrender. Yesterday’s raid was the follow-up to nab four additional suspects after the January 29 raid had rounded up 10 suspects, including gang leader Warunee Duangtasit. The suspects arrested yesterday include Warunee’s husband Sithichok Duangtasit and a key accomplice Rossukhon Fongmul, who is financial director of Pasak Tambon Administration Organisation in Lamphun. The scam took place mainly in the areas of Chiang Mai, Lamphun and other northern provinces. Warunee claimed that she had been awarded lottery quotas before soliciting public members to invest in a money pool to gain rights to the lottery booklets. Investors were required to pay 38,000 per share in order to finance the wholesale purchase of lottery booklets for retail distribution and sale. Investors were promised some 46 per cent return on investment computed from the profit margin for each lottery ticket sold and the special draw conducted twice a month to award an average of 2.5 per cent additional incentives per lottery draw. Investigators said Warunee only had the combined quotas for lottery booklets amounting to 65,000 lottery tickets which were insufficient to support the claim on investment return. Scam victims alerted the authorities to the scam after Warunee started failing to pay them as promised. In January raid, the authorities seized Warunee’s ill-gotten gains, including commercial bank accounts worth 1 billion baht and eight plots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitawatWatawit Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Yet one more reason to sell lottery tickets online or through the 7/11** network of shops, (after sorting out alternate sources of income for the genuinely disabled who rely on selling tickets for a living, of course). **7/11 are going to be busy, what with the 90 day reporting as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerojero Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 46%? And pigs do fly, ask those "investors". Greed and dumb-ass combined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyLew Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 if it sounds too good to be true ............ a fool and his money ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worgeordie Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 "one volunteered to report to authorities,and another was arranging to surrender", The police have to give them enough time to flee the country with their ill gotten gains or at the very least hide it. These scams and frauds will just continue,and there seems to have been quite a few lately,involving huge amounts of money and property,time the police started to take a more serious view on these types of crimes,and take strong action. regards Worgeordie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakseeda Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 A fool and his money are easily parted........ Hey ! Anyone wanna buy a bar..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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