Lite Beer Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Lesotho man hacked Pattaya hotel's email to defraud foreigners: policeThe Nation PATTAYA: -- POLICE have arrested a Lesotho man for allegedly hacking the email account of a Pattaya hotel and conning four foreigners into paying large sums for supposed room reservations, the Technology Crime Suppression Division told a press conference yesterday.Two Thai women, Apple Mingman and Thanyaluck Khotephoothorn, whom police alleged were accomplices to Matete Lebohang, were arrested earlier, Pol Colonel Somphorn Daengdee, a deputy TCSD commander, said.A foreigner of unknown nationality was also wanted for his role in the racket, he said.Police arrested Lebohang at a prison in northern Bangkok recently when he visited an inmate.Somphorn said Lebohang hacked into the email of the unnamed three-star hotel and told the foreigners to wire him a total of Bt300,000.Police said foreign conmen often befriend or marry Thai women to use them to open bank accounts to help them commit such crimes. Conmen often use these women to withdraw money from victims from cash machines to avoid detection by banks or ATM cameras, they said. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Lesotho-man-hacked-Pattaya-hotels-email-to-defraud-30260229.html -- The Nation 2015-05-16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemonjelly Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 'Hacked' the email account or just knew someone who knew someone who worked there with access to the account? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emster23 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 (edited) The headline should have read "Lesotho man, Two Thai women, hacked Pattaya hotel's email to defraud foreigners: police". Maybe add "third person sought". No wonder some Thais "can't imagine a Thai doing xyz" as it seems press loathe to print such crimes by Thais? Edited May 16, 2015 by petercool edited large type Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 (edited) The "dark forces" stroke again. Edited May 16, 2015 by Lupatria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthai Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Now you know when the hotel emails you to transfer 300.000 baht don't do it. What idiot would even consider send that money, FOR WHAT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LennyW Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Now you know when the hotel emails you to transfer 300.000 baht don't do it. What idiot would even consider send that money, FOR WHAT? I think if you read the article properly you will see it was a number of foreigners sending a total of 300,000 baht, not one person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chao Lao Beach Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 The headline should have read "Lesotho man, Two Thai women, hacked Pattaya hotel's email to defraud foreigners: police". Maybe add "third person sought". No wonder some Thais "can't imagine a Thai doing xyz" as it seems press loathe to print such crimes by Thais? Correct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasggg Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 (edited) Now you know when the hotel emails you to transfer 300.000 baht don't do it. What idiot would even consider send that money, FOR WHAT? I think if you read the article properly you will see it was a number of foreigners sending a total of 300,000 baht, not one person.It says four people, so that's still an average of 75,000Bt. That's an awful lot of money going to a 3 star hotel. Edited May 16, 2015 by chasggg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RigPig Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 (edited) Police said foreign conmen often befriend or marry Thai women to use them to open bank accounts to help them commit such crimes. Conmen often use these women to withdraw money from victims from cash machines to avoid detection by banks or ATM cameras, they said. MORE foreigners corrupting poor innocent Thai women!!! Edited May 16, 2015 by petercool edited bold type Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitawatWatawit Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Is this Lesotho's first international criminal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitawatWatawit Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 The headline should have read "Lesotho man, Two Thai women, hacked Pattaya hotel's email to defraud foreigners: police". Maybe add "third person sought". No wonder some Thais "can't imagine a Thai doing xyz" as it seems press loathe to print such crimes by Thais? Correct Wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExPratt Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 The calls are the ones , impersonating Bank Fraud reps, I know an old Malaysian bloke who transferred 50.000bt into one of their accounts when they called him and said his account was being attacked and must move the money to a new account they had opened for him. They told him to go ATM and call thet would call him back He did it and it was a set up of course . Poor old Sod it was a lot of money to him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDGRUEN Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 I don't think he hacked the people's email -- he just sent them email using a bogus email account likely having a name similar to the hotel... His cohorts got the customers email address ... this is a more likely scenario ... The customers just thought they were dealing with the hotel - similar name - -didn't check closely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petermik Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Now you know when the hotel emails you to transfer 300.000 baht don't do it. What idiot would even consider send that money, FOR WHAT? Maybe for a LLT.................long long time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asiantravel Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 " Police arrested Lebohang at a prison in northern Bangkok recently when he visited an inmate " That's hilarious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sviss Geez Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 (edited) The headline should have read "Lesotho man, Two Thai women, hacked Pattaya hotel's email to defraud foreigners: police". Maybe add "third person sought". No wonder some Thais "can't imagine a Thai doing xyz" as it seems press loathe to print such crimes by Thais? Correct Wrong. Correct. The Lesotho man was the hacker who had been arrested. The report also clearly stated that 2 Thais had been arrested as accomplices, why did you choose to overlook that? Edited May 16, 2015 by petercool changed terms used Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sviss Geez Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 I don't think he hacked the people's email -- he just sent them email using a bogus email account likely having a name similar to the hotel... His cohorts got the customers email address ... this is a more likely scenario ... The customers just thought they were dealing with the hotel - similar name - -didn't check closely Who was investigating this, you or the police making the arrests? The chances are that what you think is nonsense, not to say irrelevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredNL Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Hacker of an email account ??? 555555555555555555555555 I really got to go to the toilet now.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggt Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 When the people of Lesotho...learn to use the internet to commit crime...the world is in serious trouble...move over Russian mafia...he come the Lesothoians... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konying Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Any hotel in year 2015 that does not have booking engine with proper check out or credit card facilities can hardly be called a hotel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beng Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Scumbag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeyrobot Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 (edited) A 3 Star hotel , 300,000 baht that's 8,000 U.S.. How many people did he fraud? He no good man. Edited May 17, 2015 by Rimmer Racist slur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisinth Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 I don't think he hacked the people's email -- he just sent them email using a bogus email account likely having a name similar to the hotel... His cohorts got the customers email address ... this is a more likely scenario ... The customers just thought they were dealing with the hotel - similar name - -didn't check closely Several ways of doing it. If the hacker/s had the Admin access information they could setup a new user with email and simply redirect to say, a google account. Only the administrator, or those with admin rights would ever know about it. Replying to emails with an alias address isn't exactly rocket science these days, especially looking at how some sites are setup. Plus, plus, plus....................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
affen02 Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 I wonder why the immigration is not more on their marks when it comes to certain nationalities entering the Kingdom. It seems to be a lot of africans involved in atm, telephone and other money scams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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