Police arrest Udon woman involved in multi million baht Facebook scam

[metisdead]

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[bamukloy]

I knew a Thai lady who was about to send a large amount of money to a transport company to retrieve what she thought was a box full of cash sent to her by her US soldier suitor working in the middle east. Customs duty needed to be paid. She wanted to borrow from my wife to get this box. The company sent her x-ray pictures of the box showing large amounts of cash.

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She didn't want to believe it was a Nigerian scam until I showed her some old Thaivisa threads about some very similar schemes. She reported it to the police

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I seem to recall a Nigerian was arrested some months back in relation to this scam.. This lady may be the one on the phone from the fake transport company seeking the duty. She added realism to the story.

If this had of been me i would have warned her once and told her no way she was getting the money of me or the wife.

Then id sit back with a smug thai style smile as arrogance and complete greed overcame her and she borrowed the scam money off loansharks.

Som num nah with no sympathy from me. Not like they would warn you off a scam if a fellow Thai was doing it to you.

[Old Croc]

I knew a Thai lady who was about to send a large amount of money to a transport company to retrieve what she thought was a box full of cash sent to her by her US soldier suitor working in the middle east. Customs duty needed to be paid. She wanted to borrow from my wife to get this box. The company sent her x-ray pictures of the box showing large amounts of cash.

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She didn't want to believe it was a Nigerian scam until I showed her some old Thaivisa threads about some very similar schemes. She reported it to the police

.

I seem to recall a Nigerian was arrested some months back in relation to this scam.. This lady may be the one on the phone from the fake transport company seeking the duty. She added realism to the story.

If this had of been me i would have warned her once and told her no way she was getting the money of me or the wife.

Then id sit back with a smug thai style smile as arrogance and complete greed overcame her and she borrowed the scam money off loansharks.

Som num nah with no sympathy from me. Not like they would warn you off a scam if a fellow Thai was doing it to you.

Firstly, there was no way she was getting money from my wife nor myself.

Secondly she came from the same village, and was a friend of my wife. She had previously worked for my wife.

Perhaps you would have sat back with a smug smile on your face while she was scammed out of a large sum of money (about 200,000 from memory), but I wouldn't and didn't.

[Lupatria]

Key Words...""dark skinned" foreigners"

She is obviously smart enough not to mention "coal miners from Ukraine" to avoid being sued for defamation...

[oyster]

I knew a Thai lady who was about to send a large amount of money to a transport company to retrieve what she thought was a box full of cash sent to her by her US soldier suitor working in the middle east. Customs duty needed to be paid. She wanted to borrow from my wife to get this box. The company sent her x-ray pictures of the box showing large amounts of cash.

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She didn't want to believe it was a Nigerian scam until I showed her some old Thaivisa threads about some very similar schemes. She reported it to the police

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I seem to recall a Nigerian was arrested some months back in relation to this scam.. This lady may be the one on the phone from the fake transport company seeking the duty. She added realism to the story.

I had a case back in the UK - selling a boat online 10k - I receive a reply,yes I will buy the boat, I am owed 15k from the UK - I will get them to pay you, when it clears you can forward me the balance, I will get the boat collected later. Now I am curious, so I agree and provide my postal address; five days later a cheque for 15k made out to me arrives DHL - sending office Lagos. Drawn on Gloucester City Council. So I call Gloucester and ask for accounts, say I have a cheque for 15k no xyz..... is it any good? Very snotty reply!!!!! Of course etc. so I suggest she might like to make further inquiries as it arrived from Lagos, unless of course their accounts had been outsourced.

ten mins later a phone call, now very contrite.... err that cheque was one of a batch stolen six months ago.

That little scam had been running very successfully in the UK for several months, you bank the cheque, it clears - you forward the cash via WU or EBT two weeks down the line your bank deducts the original deposit because it was a fraudulent cheque.

The sting, people see what they want to see, and hear what they want to hear.