Burapha Nurse Outsmarts ‘Black Money’ Swindler

[Pattaya Daily News]

A 30-year-old nurse got duped by a man she met on Facebook. She sent him money he claimed was needed for chemicals to wash the dye from $3.5 million U.S. dollars, which was smuggled through Thai customs. She notified police, who later arrested a man with a safe of fake “black money.”

CHONBURI – November 1, 2012 [PDN]; at 3:30 p.m., a report of a “black money” scam was received by Pol. Col. Itthiporn Potong, Sansuk police station, Muang Chonburi.

Making the report was the victim, Ms. Chalalai Boonman, age 30, a nurse form Burapha University hospital. She told police that she met a man through Facebook who claimed to be working for the Shell oil company in New York, U.S.A.

They kept corresponding and became very close. But the man lied to her and said he had “black money” in U.S. dollar banknotes that was kept in a safe in Thailand. There was about $3.5 million U.S. dollars, or the equivalent of 100 million Baht, he said.

But he told her the money had been dyed black in order to smuggle it through customs. So he asked Ms. Chalalai to help him buy a solution to wash the dye from the money, which would cost $150,000 U.S. dollars, or 4.5 million baht.

But he said once they got the money, they would live happily together in America. But first she had to send him 42,000 baht. He would then forward her payment to the person holding the safe in Thailand to “wash” the money. So she transferred money to his bank account. But later she felt he was a swindler, so she came to the police.

After hearing her report, the police set up an entrapment plan. They gave Ms. Chalalai 100,000 in photocopied THB banknotes. The police than had her inform the contact person inThailand that she had the rest of the money to pay for the solution to remove the dye.

Ms. Chalalai then made an appointment to meet the man who was holding the safe at a coffee chop in Lamtong department store, in front of Burapha University, Sansuk, Muang , Chonburi.

At the appointed time, a man later identified as Mr. Sanji, a Cameroonian, showed up with the safe. He took the money from her. Then the police revealed themselves and showed their identities. They detained the man and informed him of the allegation against him of deceiving people of their property.

However, Mr. Sanji claimed to police that he was just a courier hired to transport the property from New York. But the police did not believe him. The police had noticed that Mr. Sanji had arrived at the coffee shop by a sedan that had other men and women inside, who may have been part of the black money gang.

The sedan had dropped Mr. Sanji at the front of the department store and then drove away. But the police have surveillance photos of the other people talking to Mr. Sanji, and will catch the others later.

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[Ohyesuare]

Good riddance.

[lpcustom69]

Good riddance.

 

Really! How are Cameroonians and Nigerians getting in?

[dudebrah]

Good on her for reporting it . A lot of people would be to embarased

[LRanger]

Boil them in canola oil.

[jocky king]

He probably scammed lot of people already and picked the wrong country to scam.. Sleeping with 20 guys in same cell for 10 years is not a funny business unless they are all LBs...

[oldfu]

Hm, these blacks are very inventive.

 

We have one he managed scam a country.

[Patapusr]

"Boil them in canola oil."

 

Thats a bit excessive.

Canola oil is relatively expensive & there are much cheaper cooking oils out there which i think would be more suitable. Gas mark 6 for approx 4 hours is the recomended cooking time.

[giel]

It is amazing to see what these African blacks are getting away with! I think that Thais are way to naive and if they see a black man, he has to be a soccer super star, or an English teacher and a "native English speaker from Africa", or he's got a big dick and they are taken for the ride of their lives (costing them sometimes their lives). If you look at how many Thai women are waisting away in foreign jails after being duped and forced into drug running, it is really shocking. These guys can land in Bkk straight from the rubbish dumps of Lagos and within an hour they are street wise and start manipulating their environment. A short stroll down lower Sukhumvit late night clearly shows that the Thai government does not remotely realize the festering cancer in their midst

[marc7337]

I am astonished by this, a Thai lady sending money to man out of country, amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[giel]

Shows the desperation of Thai women to find a reliable partner. Among our friends are quite a number of ladies deceived. The one guy started an on-line relationship with a female friend of ours and send photos of a white American single father with his son Tom. A developer in Florida and marketing his properties in Lagos, Nigeria. Then of course "her" son Tom became ill and was taken up in hospital and his credit card is not accepted in Nigeria and she must please send him US$ 5000.00 or any amount she can get together, so that "her" son Tom can be released from hospital and he will be on the next flight to Bangkok!(he even scanned and send a fake on-line airline booking to her) At the last moment, and after she borrowed about US$ 3500.00 she asked my wife what she thinks and when she forwarded some e-mails I could clearly see that it was not an English speaker. That is why I say the Thais are naive. Well to business men fall for this black money racket and I find fellow country men from my native Namibia running diamond rackets in Bangkok. Last but not least! All these bastards are walking around with fake AIDS test results and insist on fucking without condoms