28/10/2015
Wassayos Ngamkham
A civic group has asked police to track down online scammers who used photographs of good-looking Western men and foreign politicians to swindle more than 29 million baht from Thai women, with one victim losing 23 million baht.
The administrator of the Facebook page named Thai Anti Scam Page, on Wednesday led a group of the victims to file a complaint with the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) (see Facebook page here).
Victims were duped into transfering money into the scammers’ bank accounts, with amounts ranging from 60,000 baht to a mammoth 23 million baht, for a total of over 29 million baht, said Ms Pornnaphat.
The group presented police with evidence that included records of money transactions and online conversations with the fraudsters.