A 46-year-old woman brought evidence to file a police report at Bang Bua Thong Police Station after being tricked into love before being invited to invest in digital money, losing more than 100,000 baht and being called ‘stupid and letting yourself be tricked’.
Ms. Supathida (pseudonym), aged 46, filed a complaint with the investigation officer at Bang Bua Thong Police Station, stating that at the beginning of July, Mr. Kongkit approached her via Facebook, in a manner that seemed to be asking to flirt and they talked. Then, on August 5, Mr. Kongkit invited her to invest in exchanging digital currencies via the UBS Union Bank of Switzerland website, claiming to be a website of a foreign bank, and said that she would get a high return.
The first time I transferred 10,000 baht, I received a bonus of 1,600 baht, totaling 11,600 baht. Then on August 7, 2014, I was invited to increase my investment to 20,000 baht. I saw that I actually got the money the first time, so I transferred another 20,000 baht. But this
time, I did not get the bonus as promised.
When she realized she had been scammed, she decided to file a complaint with the police via a Facebook page called MPB, Investigation Bureau, and was advised to talk to a lawyer named Wattanyu Phothinok. Later, she found out that it was a fake police and lawyer page, which caused her to lose another 96,000 baht. In total, she was scammed twice, losing over 100,000 baht. To make matters worse, she was warned by Mr. Kongkit not to believe the fake lawyer who sent her a link to a gambling website, and he even scolded her, saying, ‘You’re stupid enough to be scammed.’
Later, I asked the MPB page admin if it was a call center gang. The admin pulled me into a LINE group of other victims. Some of them followed the steps and got their money back. However, I thought that the victims in this group were probably shills, so I decided to end everything immediately because I didn’t want to lose any more money.
Source: Thai News Agency