Originally Posted by
sweethomes
News item: February 22, 2003
Lady email scam - iTV documentary
iTV (a local Thai TV station) aired a documentary about a Thai man who was scammed 200,000 baht by a Thai lady in another town via email, who sent him her photo and mobile number, spoke politely, offered a relationship and implicitly sex, and cried on the phone saying she needed hospital money or she would die of leukemia. The story had many of the typical steps of a scam relationship, targeting a gullible and generous man, and building up to large money requests.
However, after sending the money to her bank, he got suspicious. After all, he had never met this lady, only seen her photo by internet and spoke with her by phone. He was a lonely man in a distant part of Thailand.
A private investigator with an iTV crew tracked her down. She was a fat and ugly lady with a computer connected to the internet, photos of pretty ladies in her room (some whom she knew), and lots of money. Her only job was scamming men by internet dating via the web.
This is not uncommon, as well as similar scams using email, mobile phones, landline call centers and proxies to answer the phones. Expats overseas are more vulnerable, but the scammers sometimes do these kinds of things to Thai men as well.
Far away from africa and anyhow familiar ...
419 scams rarely start as loveletters
The term 419 comes from the Nigerian Penal Code, so I guess they must have a heavy hand....
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