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    African marriage scam gang busted in Pattaya

    Seven Africans have been arrested in Pattaya for having allegedly cheated over 100 Thai women of some 10 million baht in marriage and investment scams through the Internet.

    The seven suspects were rounded up by Pattaya police at LV Apartment in Soi Chalermkiat 17, South Pattaya, on Saturday. Seven computer notebooks, 11 smart phones and three tablets were found in their apartment rooms and seized.

    Police said that all had overstayed their visas and would face charges of illegal immigration and fraud.

    According to the police, members of the gang would use the matching programmes in the Internet to get in touch with their targeted victims and claimed themselves as being retiring European businessmen looking for Thai female companions to settle down in Thailand.

    The alleged frauds would normally use pictures of good-looking white men to impress their targeted victims instead of using their own. Once the victims were convinced, police said the gang members would try all the tricks, mostly business offers with irresistible high returns to lure them to wire their money into their bank accounts.

    Police have asked victims to show up to identify the gang.

    African marriage scam gang busted in Pattaya - Thai PBS English News

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    A 53-year-old man who has sent over $100,000 to a woman he has never met in Nigeria insists he is only providing financial assistance until she inherits $25.6 million from her dead parents.

    Trusting chap sends more than $100,000 to the wife in Nigeria - he's never met!
    Steve, 53, met 'Kelly' on an online dating website in 2012 - he got legally married to her in Nigeria, despite having never met
    Says he's giving her money until she receives inheritance from her parents who she claims were killed in an Ohio car crash in 2012
    'I've not met Kelly, but it doesn't matter. I love her just the same,' he said
    Steve sells his plasma - the yellowish liquid that has to be separated from blood - twice a week to ensure he can make payments to 'Kelly'



    Read more: Dr Phil guest Steve sells his blood to send over $100k to wife in Nigeria who he's never met | Daily Mail Online
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    Sucking the plasma out of him...Hey, if it wasn't for Kelly, the money might have gone to a bunch of religious nutters...

    "Whatever gets you through the night...is alright, is alright"...

    -John Lennon

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    Really, can't do much more than deport them I reckon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by spliff View Post
    Really, can't do much more than deport them I reckon.
    That is after the BiB get there grubby hands on some of the money

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    Frankly, it's a victimless crime.

    Coons ripping off chickenheads but posing as farang. Love the irony.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit
    The alleged frauds would normally use pictures of good-looking white men to impress their targeted victims

    Quote Originally Posted by misskit
    Police have asked victims to show up to identify the gang.


    "It's none of these darkies. It was a handsome white boy".

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    Marriage scam gang busted in Pattaya


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    So these missionary boys educated by the church in Africa, are the result of Donations by Western charities to give them clean drinking water.
    Donate to African charities, help the poor of Africa, they will pay you back in kind.

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    How do they get visas in the first place?

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