Guyanese arrested over ‘magic’ bank note scam in Phuket
PHOTOS: Surachete Hakparn
A Guyanese man has been arrested in Phuket after the owner of a local language school reported a money scammer with an unusual scam.
The Immigration Bureau Chief Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn reports that they have arrested the Guyanese man named Abdul Kalam Azad Sattaur at a mansion in Phuket Town last Friday.
The arrest follows a Thai woman, the owner of a language school in Phuket, filing a report to the Thalang Police that a suspect used a fake Facebook and LINE account and claimed that he was an American man who had worked in Syria.
He told the woman that he will send a security box which contained blank papers and a special liquid that would turn the blank paper into bank notes when she added the special liquid.
He claimed that the total money was 650,000 US dollar, about 20 million baht.
He said that the woman had to pay him an amount before he would send the security box. The victim had transferred money to the man’s bank account 10 times, a total of about 9 million baht.
Beware of magic bank notes!
