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Friday 25 November 2016

Romance Scam: Two Nigerian men arrested in Thailand for swindling women seeking foreign husbands

Police on Thursday, November 24th, arrested two Nigerians and three Thai women for allegedly swindling women seeking foreign husbands out of 50 million baht through an internet romance scam.

According to Provincial Police Region 4 chief Pol Maj Gen Jatupon Parnraksa, the two Nigerian men identified as Okwutor Peter, 29, and Jeremiah Ndidi, 27 and their three Thai accomplices were arrested at a Bangkok condominium where police seized 20 bank books and ATMs with transactions totalling more than 50 million baht. 

They also confiscated 15 mobile phones, a laptop computer and 50 other valuable items.

The Thai suspects were identified as Jaerati Saisin and Nattacha Thongbai, both 30, from Rayong and Yasothon, who were married to the Nigerians. The third woman was a 34-year-old Bangkok native, Ketsara Marksiri.

Pol Maj Gen Jatupon said police acted on a complaint filed in Udon Thani province last month by the gang’s latest victim who was a 45-year-old rubber plantation owner who had been swindled out of  500,000 baht.

The Nigerians claimed to be good-looking, white and well-to-do. They developed close ties with women seeking rich foreign husbands via Facebook or online chat programmes, and proposed marriage. They would then claim that they were detained by airport and customs authorities for bringing in cash that was more than the legal limit, and asked the victims to transfer money to them to pay for tax on the cash.

Police believe Peter and Ndidi are part of a larger Nigerian gang operating online romance scams, led by a Nigerian mafia man identified only as Yusuf.

21 comments:

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    1. Chei! My naija brothers








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  2. Chai...spirit of a hustler! #Desperados

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  3. why always Nigerians? well bad day for dem

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  4. They must be made to face full wrath of law.
    Nigerians always in the news for the wrong reasons.


    . ~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA

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  5. a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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    Those women can do anything for a white suitor though....
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    ***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***

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  6. LONG HANDS OF THE LAW HAS FINALLY CAUGHT UP WITH THEM

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  7. Nigerians everywhere! Linda take note!

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  8. good
    -D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds

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  9. My igbo brothers, i hail thee, u ar repping us so well in everything

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    1. Goat ! Answer me you bush sheep.
      Like you don't know half those bastards caught are not Igbos but bears Igbo.

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    2. Goat ! Answer me you bush sheep.
      Like you don't know half those bastards caught are not Igbos but bears Igbo.

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    3. Goat ! Answer me you bush sheep.
      Like you don't know half those bastards caught are not Igbos but bears Igbo.

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  11. TOO BAD FOR THEM






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  12. Nigerian r very good in scamming. Maybe is recession.

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  13. this na beta kind of scam. problem is that those guys didnt know when to quit the game

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  14. I pray for you guys to be free. na try una dey try bt d tins backfire ni. no worry. una go free.. All this hit wey una comment. una fit go meet Nigeria Government make dem do something about d shits wey dey turn people down for this country.. many dey die for starving.."e be like dos wey dey comment rubbish for here no know wetin una dey talk self. make una find somewhere else go sleep"

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