Published: 19/10/2012 at 06:03 PM
Online news: Crimes
BANGKOK - Police on Friday arrested three Chinese men accused of swindling Thai-Chinese families into transferring money to their accounts.
Pol Col Thisathat Buranarat, deputy chief of the Metropolitan Police, names the three men as Wu Xiaomao, 50, Chu Chunchen, 48, and U Yiguang, 55.
The suspects admitted to investigators that they randomly picked telephone numbers of Thai-Chinese people from the Chinese Association in Thailand, he said.
When their victims answered their phones, the conmen would tell them that they were relatives and that they were bringing expensive Chinese herbs for them.
Once the suspects had the victims' home addresses, they would visit them, give them some herbs and ask them to give them some money because their "family in China lives in poverty".
Pol Col Thisathat said the victims only later learned they had been tricked when they checked with their relatives and asked about the men.
Pol Col Manop Sukhonthaphat, chief of the Ratchaburana Police, said 11 people had filed a complaint with his station against the three men , copnmplaining they had been swindled out of more than 400,000 baht in total.
Online news: Crimes
BANGKOK - Police on Friday arrested three Chinese men accused of swindling Thai-Chinese families into transferring money to their accounts.
Pol Col Thisathat Buranarat, deputy chief of the Metropolitan Police, names the three men as Wu Xiaomao, 50, Chu Chunchen, 48, and U Yiguang, 55.
The suspects admitted to investigators that they randomly picked telephone numbers of Thai-Chinese people from the Chinese Association in Thailand, he said.
When their victims answered their phones, the conmen would tell them that they were relatives and that they were bringing expensive Chinese herbs for them.
Once the suspects had the victims' home addresses, they would visit them, give them some herbs and ask them to give them some money because their "family in China lives in poverty".
Pol Col Thisathat said the victims only later learned they had been tricked when they checked with their relatives and asked about the men.
Pol Col Manop Sukhonthaphat, chief of the Ratchaburana Police, said 11 people had filed a complaint with his station against the three men , copnmplaining they had been swindled out of more than 400,000 baht in total.
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