Police arrested a Nigerian man in Pattaya, jap Thailand, yesterday beneath suspicion of catfishing and romance scamming a quantity of Thai ladies on-line, with damages amounting to 300,000 baht.
The catfish, 34 yr old Ndubuisi, posed as someone else on Facebook and satisfied a quantity of Thai girls that he was in love with them. He deceived the ladies into thinking he was in a different country but would quickly transfer to Thailand and marry them so they could start a life collectively.
The catfish informed victims he would send expensive items as engagement items. Then, Proven would pose as a customs officer and make contact with the women to say they needed to pay a duty tax charge to obtain their gifts. But there have been no gifts, no marriage ceremony, and no love.
After several girls who fell sufferer to the scam reported their losses to the police, investigating officers gathered proof that Ndubuisi brought on damages of over 300,000 baht and offered it to Samut Prakan Provincial Court, who put out a warrant for his arrest, reviews KhaoSod.
The accused fled to Pattaya but police tracked him down and arrested him at a rented property underneath suspicion of 4 costs: 1) defrauding individuals by pretending to be another person, 2) inputting false data into a pc system, 3) being a part of a criminal gang and 4) cash laundering.
Police drove the accused to Bang Sao Thong Police Station in Samut Prakan province to face prosecution. Police didn’t say what sort of punishment Ndubuisi was looking at.
Officers said they will expand their investigation and arrest anybody else concerned within the movement. It’s not clear whether they have tracked down the catfish’s Thai accomplice, the “customs officer.”
Last month, a Dutchman filed a 4 million baht lawsuit against his former girlfriend, a girl from Sakhon Nakhon province in northeast Thailand, who he says deceived him into sending her tens of millions of baht for land and a home before abandoning him.
However, the Thai girl says it’s the Dutchman who’s in the wrong for starting a relationship with her when he was already married to a different lady..