reader Posted June 21, 2023 Posted June 21, 2023 From The Thaiger The Royal Thai Police (RTP) issued a warning to pornography lovers to be vigilant after a victim was fleeced of 3 million baht after he browsed an illegal porn website. The RTP yesterday told a gathering press pack that the top five scams in Thailand included counterfeit products and services, fraudulent part-time or freelance jobs, loan scams, call centre scams, and investment scams. The RTP added that a popular new scam is pushing to get into the top five – porn site extortion. The RTP made known that the victim was contacted by the administrator of a porn site he browsed and invited him to add the website as a friend on the LINE application. The admin informed the victim that there was more free adult content available on the LINE account, so the victim agreed to add it. The victim was then invited to perform a series of tasks to access more free explicit content and then lured into applying as a member of a website called the v-verve club. During the tasks, the victim was lured into transferring money to the website. The web admin encouraged the victim to transfer larger amounts assuring him that he would get all of the money back at the end of the game. Eventually, the victim lost 3 million baht to the scam. The RTP added that people should be aware of these scamming websites. The RTP also added that a number of people had fallen victim to a TikTok scam. The scammers contact the victims via phone and invite them to complete a task on the TikTok application to gain rewards. At the start, the scam gang would transfer a reward to the victims after they completed their tasks. Then, they would send access to a fake TikTok application and lure victims into transferring money to them. TMax and vinapu 2 Quote
vinapu Posted June 21, 2023 Posted June 21, 2023 stories like that made me to make firm decision from onset of smartphone ownership not to use it for any financial transactions. So even if I fall a victim of scam I'd be too stupid to transfer any money. Works for me Ruthrieston, PeterRS, TMax and 1 other 4 Quote
PeterRS Posted June 21, 2023 Posted June 21, 2023 The victim was then invited to perform a series of tasks to access more free explicit content and then lured into applying as a member of a website called the v-verve club. During the tasks, the victim was lured into transferring money to the website. Very handy post. But after all that has been written and reported about scams I cannot believe that anyone is still stupid enough to fall for this sort of nonsense. Using one's brain rather than one's dick helps, I presume. Quote
reader Posted June 21, 2023 Author Posted June 21, 2023 Agree. and just having wealth doesn’t seem to make victims any wiser because they’re the ones getting burned. Greed—like lust—can make fools of us. vinapu 1 Quote
jason1975 Posted June 21, 2023 Posted June 21, 2023 It's possible that some witchcraft or sorcery was used to enchant the victim. Quote
vinapu Posted June 21, 2023 Posted June 21, 2023 It's possible that some witchcraft or sorcery was used to enchant the victim. no , sometimes scammers are very skilled. We think we are smart until we meet our match. I know first hand as almost fell victim. It was supposed call from my internet company. Since at the same time I had some problems with access and also with telephone, it seemed legitimate. My brain was turned on only at the last second when they asked me to 'repeat your credit card number" , first , why repeat if I did not give you number in first place ? Second , why they need it as repairs are normally added to regular monthly bill ? So I just hanged out but they were brave enough to call me back few minutes later. By that time I put myself together so just hanged out again without the word and reported all to both governemnt fraud site and to Internet company. To this day I'm sure it was internal job of people who got information of what is going on with my case in real as it all sounded very normal. They just outsmarted themselves by using that ' repeat' word. Ruthrieston, floridarob, jamiebee and 1 other 4 Quote
floridarob Posted June 21, 2023 Posted June 21, 2023 It's possible that some witchcraft or sorcery was used to enchant the victim. That's what I wonder about people STILL sending Trump money...... Ruthrieston, reader, alvnv and 1 other 4 Quote
alvnv Posted June 22, 2023 Posted June 22, 2023 That's what I wonder about people STILL sending Trump money...... I think, in this case, it’s more ignorance than magic reader and floridarob 1 1 Quote
vinapu Posted June 23, 2023 Posted June 23, 2023 I think, in this case, it’s more ignorance than magic I think reason is believing in fairly tales Quote
