"Thoroughly rotten family" rob lottery winners - but police recover the loot

[rooster59]

"Thoroughly rotten family" rob lottery winners - but police recover the loot

 

Caption: A thoroughly rotten family! Image: Sanook

 

Sanook reported on the resolution of a case of theft from a couple in Yasothon in Thailand's north east who won first prize in the state lottery in July.

 

Thong Orn, 54, and his wife Mut, 53, scooped 12 million in the July 16th draw. 

 

But their win made them targets. 

 

A burglary followed in which two bank books, government bonds, cash and land title deeds were stolen. 

 

Then someone withdrew 2,900,000 baht and closed the Krung Thai account belonging to Mut.

 

Police were on the case and soon found a 23 year old electrician called Nisit parked in the area near the burglary. 

 

He had just married 19 year old Sudarat on October 17th. 

 

Nisit first denied involvement in the burglary but a search of his Vigo found Mut's bankbook and Thai ID.

 

Thai Charoen police found out that the ID had been used by his mother Wanphen, 60, to pose as Mut and shut the account and steal all the money. 

 

The cash had been used for a down payment on an Isuzu pick-up, a cash payment of 140,000 to the thieving mother Wanphen, two baht weight of gold and almost 300,000 baht payment to fiancee Sudarat, all part of the wedding dowry.

 

There was also a little over 1.9 million baht in her account.

 

Police managed to recover almost every baht of the stolen money.

 

Sanook also reported from sources that Krung Thai bank had made up the difference accepting responsibility for being duped.

 

Not surprisingly when referring to the son, mother and bride, Sanook called them a "thoroughly rotten family" in their caption.
 

Source: Sanook

 

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[Orton Rd]

How do you close an account and take out 2 mil with somebody elses ID card and the wrong signature?

Edited October 24, 2020 by Orton Rd

[worgeordie]

1 minute ago, Orton Rd said:

How do you close an account and take out 2 mil with no ID card and the wrong signature?

Quite easily ....it seems

regards worgeordie

[Seismic]

8 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

How do you close an account and take out 2 mil with somebody elses ID card and the wrong signature?

The same way almost 600,000 baht was taken out of my account in a single morning. Thankfully the bank in question admitted it was an inside job and returned all of the money, but it took almost three months.

[scammed]

wasnt there a movie once when the entire family was a bunch of thieves ?

[Golden Triangle]

For once I will the BiB a pat on the back, well done guys, not often I say that. ????????

[Don Chance]

How much do they want you to deposit in a Thai bank for the retirement visa again?

[Blue Muton]

1 hour ago, scammed said:

wasnt there a movie once when the entire family was a bunch of thieves ?

Animal Kingdom, a decent TV show as well as the movie.

[ChrisY1]

11 hours ago, scammed said:

wasnt there a movie once when the entire family was a bunch of thieves ?

Don't need a movie to tell us that...:))

[cardinalblue]

How does the couple allow this theft to play out once they realized they were robbed?

all holdings should have been locked immediately...

 

lot of the blame needs to go to the institutions...where are their safety systems once notified that documents cards and books were stolen?

 

third world response...

[steven100]

obviously she forged the signature at the bank.    

[Grumpy one]

Let us hope this couple NEVER get the chance to reproduce.

The old mother should have known the son was a loser and refused his mad plan.

But I guess greed is a strong incentive.

[Chassa]

12 hours ago, rooster59 said:

wedding dowry.

Wrong! Dowry is paid by wife's parents to the husband.

[Deli]

The title made me thinking of something...

[prakhonchai nick]

12 hours ago, Orton Rd said:

How do you close an account and take out 2 mil with somebody elses ID card and the wrong signature?

Bank with Krung Thai!

[prakhonchai nick]

Have the family now wai'd a few dozen times to the lottery winners, and all is now forgiven?

[evadgib]

12 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

For once I will the BiB a pat on the back, well done guys, not often I say that. ????????

Elsewhere on this website Plod (presumably) leaked the identity of a woman who had reported to them to record the fact that she had won 12M a fortnight ago. 

 

Unless or until this lot (plod/press/gen public) master the art of pers security/privacy/data protection/ public accountability nothing will change.

 

Lottery entrants can minimize the chances of falling foul of the above by;

 

a) Taking a snapshot of their tickets at the point of purchase & saving it to cloud;

 

b  ) NOT reporting to Plod <it isn't a legal requirement>if they get a result (or reaching for the fire crackers lol) &

 

c) Acting as directed on the back of the ticket.

 

(Around 3 years ago we (family) had a modest win on the Thai lottery. The above worked for us ????)

[KannikaP]

29 minutes ago, Chassa said:

Wrong! Dowry is paid by wife's parents to the husband.

Sorry you have got it the wrong way round. The husband pays it to the wife's family as compensation for her not being able to work on the family farm any more.

Or usually these days, he borrows (rents) it, together with a stack of gold, then gives it back the next day

Edited October 25, 2020 by KannikaP

[IraqRon]

12 hours ago, scammed said:

wasnt there a movie once when the entire family was a bunch of thieves ?

Was also a reality show staring the pres. of usa and his family .

[Benmart]

Novices learn greed by watching those who have achieved material things by deceit, criminal behavior that goes unpunished, and by lies to keep their ill gotten gain. It happens not only in this land, but elsewhere as well.

[anterian]

2 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Sorry you have got it the wrong way round. The husband pays it to the wife's family as compensation for her not being able to work on the family farm any more.

Or usually these days, he borrows (rents) it, together with a stack of gold, then gives it back the next day

Dowry is paid by the bride's family to the groom, as in India etc, in Thailand this is reversed and sinsod is paid to the bride's family by the groom. 

[natway09]

The BIB acted quickly as they always do when there is money involved

[RichardColeman]

37 minutes ago, anterian said:

Dowry is paid by the bride's family to the groom, as in India etc, in Thailand this is reversed and sinsod is paid to the bride's family by the groom. 

Pretty much guarantee that that will change soon to the Indian husband paying the wife's family - the sheer amount of preference being shown for male children and females aborted is making wives harder to find. Demand breeds money. Pretty soon in India, poor men will not have a wife.

[Grumpy one]

3 hours ago, Chassa said:

Wrong! Dowry is paid by wife's parents to the husband.

Not here in Thailand

[nobodysfriend]

16 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Nisit first denied involvement in the burglary but a search of his Vigo found Mut's bankbook and Thai ID.

 

Stupid .

 

3 hours ago, Chassa said:

Wrong! Dowry is paid by wife's parents to the husband.

 

In India , not in Thailand .

[rupert the bear]

they are caught and hopefully cant wai out of it.all 3 must have equal and serious jail time

[Oldie]

I am a lucky person. This can't happen to me. I always buy lottery tickets that don't win. 

[Orton Rd]

5 hours ago, steven100 said:

obviously she forged the signature at the bank.    

Not easy to do, they often want 2=3 of mine then scan through the passport a few times

[hotchilli]

17 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Thai Charoen police found out that the ID had been used by his mother Wanphen, 60, to pose as Mut and shut the account and steal all the money

That is very worrying.... what was the bank doing for checks

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, steven100 said:

obviously she forged the signature at the bank.    

And if she looked nothing like the person on the id card