Great Fakes! Thai woman in US arrested for buying designer handbags, returning knockoffs to the stor

[thaigirlwatcher]

I find this hard to believe. I have bought handbags for my TGF at the local Coach outlet. The staff is highly trained and in no way could they be fooled by a fake. I think this is true of other high end retailers in the US.

[A1Str8]

Shameful!!! She could at least have got the knock offs here.

Thats what she did. She had it sent to the US from TH.

[hawker9000]

I'm shocked...

[mesterm]

5555

[NovaBlue05]

I'm shocked...

I'm more shocked that anyone would pay 2K USD for a handbag.

[Siamwhiteelephant]

Hope she and others learn the lesson that you can't act the same underhand way and get away with it eventually in a civilized country. If only Thailand sales people palming off fakes as genuine would bear the brunt of similar appropriate justice and the prevailing apathetic attitude towards the dishonesty be quashed.

[arrowsdawdle]

never understood what could possibly make a bag worth so much money

Insecurity.

[arrowsdawdle]

I'm shocked...

Take your fingers out of the socket.

[gandalf12]

It is surprising how she got away with ti for so long. Normally the shop wants to see the receipt before they will exchange anything.

[DrDave]

This lady is in deep kee...not only the local state theft and fraud charges related to the store but just possession of these counterfeit goods in a serious federal crime as well.

That's for sure!

One of my wife's Thai friends in the US related this story to her a few days ago. She said that this woman apparently had "employees" who did the returns in other states. If true, then she's really in deep doo-doo, because she could be indicted under the RICO act (organized crime), and potentially lose all of her assets (cars, house, bank accounts, etc).

[Khon Kaen Dave]

This is similar to a scam in the UK years ago.With the influx of Indian and Pakistani migrants.Only to be copied by the Eastern Europeans.

The mark was Marks and Spencer. A van olad of them would be dropped in a main shopping mall,just about the stores busiest time.They would then go on a shop lifting spree,stealing the most expensive items that weren't chained or under glass.Mainly clothing.The stolen items were kept fora few days,and then the thieves would return them,saying they were the wrong size. M&S were one of the only stores that would give a cash refund, whether the item was in it's original wrapping or not.They were very good for genuine people. Once this was proved to be a money making exercise,then the thieves would get hired transits and visit stores all over main towns.

Milton Keans was hit on a regular basis,and eventually they ended up in London,hitting Oxford street and the like.

The stores gradually got wise. I'm not sure if M&S still have the returned items policy.as ive not been home for a few years. I remember the news papers saying that it was an organised crime syndicate,in as much as a time limit was worked by the thieves.The vans would deliver them and pick them up at designated times and places.

They were reported as hitting 3/4 different stores a day,not just M&S.

So what this woman was doing is really not a new idea.

[arunsakda]

This lady is in deep kee...not only the local state theft and fraud charges related to the store but just possession of these counterfeit goods in a serious federal crime as well.

She's in no trouble. Whilst on bail she can retreat in a local buddhist nunnery for a while. Then ignore summonses and writs whilst protesting how busy and important she is. Meanwhile her lawyers can confer with the judges, plaintiffs and police giving gratuities in brown envelopes.

Slap on the wrist! (not)

[Siamwhiteelephant]

This lady is in deep kee...not only the local state theft and fraud charges related to the store but just possession of these counterfeit goods in a serious federal crime as well.

She's in no trouble. Whilst on bail she can retreat in a local buddhist nunnery for a while. Then ignore summonses and writs whilst protesting how busy and important she is. Meanwhile her lawyers can confer with the judges, plaintiffs and police giving gratuities in brown envelopes.

Slap on the wrist! (not)

This didn’t happen in Thailand, but the USA, as even in the heading the article states. So, she is up to her neck in trouble.

[ardokano]

This lady is in deep kee...not only the local state theft and fraud charges related to the store but just possession of these counterfeit goods in a serious federal crime as well.

She's in no trouble. Whilst on bail she can retreat in a local buddhist nunnery for a while. Then ignore summonses and writs whilst protesting how busy and important she is. Meanwhile her lawyers can confer with the judges, plaintiffs and police giving gratuities in brown envelopes.

Slap on the wrist! (not)

This didn’t happen in Thailand, but the USA, as even in the heading the article states. So, she is up to her neck in trouble.

I also suspect that in US

it is a tiny amount, and lacked pay.

is not "gold"&company .. make deal fake reports on oil stocks, dotcoms.. and etc .. pay few penny and go..