20 September 2023 at 13:29 PUBLISHED
Women have been forewarned by the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau of a dishonest online matchmaking service that scams them out of finding them beautiful foreign lovers.
According to CCIB spokesman Pol Col Kissana Phathanacharoen & nbsp, many women complained on Wednesday about being duped by the online matchmaker” Mae Sue Online ,” which had about 150,000 Facebook followers.
The page charged a variety of fees to find them prospective unusual lovers.
According to Pol Col Kissana, the fees ranged from 20, 000 baht for a foreign national who works as an expert or civil servant to 30, 000 Bahr for real estate developers, 50, 000 BH for doctors or pharmacists, and 100,000 BHT for orchard owners.
Additionally, the site administrator offered to create profiles for clients at a cost of 7, 000 baht each and to train them in andnbsp, finding them overseas lovers for 5,000.
Consumers were given pictures of potential matches that eventually turned out to be famous actors, athletes, or businessmen. According to Pol Col Kissana, that is when the accusers eventually realized they had been duped.
About 2,600 people were fraud victims between March 1 and September 17, and they made up 0.80 % of all patients who reported the scam electronically and claimed to have lost a total of 881 million baht, according to the spokesman.
According to him, people fraud carries a maximum prison sentence of five years and / or good of 100,000 ringgit.