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Pattaya: Thai woman falls for gold scam not once but twice - police doing nothing

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Pattaya: Thai woman falls for gold scam not once but twice - police doing nothing

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A Thai woman called Natthasaran, 36, went to Siam Chon News on Sunday after she fell for online gold scams not once but twice.

First of all she said that she got interested in a Facebook group in March of last year in which you could buy cheap gold bars and jewelry under shop prices. 

All went well at first then after she invested 563,888 baht in eleven separate purchases she stopped receiving the gold and everything went quiet except for a message that the business had collapsed. 

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Many people elsewhere had fallen for this and she reported the matter to the Na Jomtien police who issued a summons, she said.

Chasing her losses - and mindful of the fact that she had lost her job due to the pandemic - she invested in another similar scheme and this time blew 140,000 baht.

She warned the public that cheap gold is a scam and asked the media to help her to get the police to get a move on with her case. 

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i guess those sellers just " feeded " her with nice profit  to trick her in further investing in it..., by giving trust and feeding the greed...... she bite the baited ..... as planned seems .....

professional  criminal gamblers ( playing as individuals not known to each other ....) work same way if they know an easy rich victim , letting him win a few times  , and then play him in organized game ....(as in real they are a gang players group ...)

 

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8 minutes ago, Sujo said:

I note victim blaming is strong here.

Of course she tried to make money, i dont hear many trying to lose it.

She was conned, i feel sorry for her.

Of course she was conned, and yes she is a victim, I will agree with that, but to say it is in no way partially her fault and then she should not bear some responsibility seems to run contrary to what many folks say about westerners when they get burned or conned.  You can not have your cake and eat it too.  

To be taken once and not learn from the experience leaves one to think that it will happen a third time.  Can we all be guardians for others and steer them away when they get to close to the flame, many try, but then the person still never listens and gets burned anyway.

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2 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Can we all be guardians for others and steer them away when they get to close to the falme, many try, but then the person still never listens and gets burned anyway.

and then doesn't understand why it happened to them, and try to blame those that tried to warn them off.

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31 minutes ago, Sujo said:

I note victim blaming is strong here.

Of course she tried to make money, i dont hear many trying to lose it.

She was conned, i feel sorry for her.

I have some real estate you might be interested in,very good deal!

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4 hours ago, webfact said:

All went well at first then after she invested 563,888 baht in eleven separate purchases she stopped receiving the gold and everything went quiet except for a message that the business had collapsed

My old-man was right... a fool and their money are soon parted.

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4 hours ago, Sujo said:

I note victim blaming is strong here.

Of course she tried to make money, i dont hear many trying to lose it.

She was conned, i feel sorry for her.

Yeah, I also felt sad that she was so gullible. But also that there are people around happy to do that to harmless, innocent, gullible people like that. Makes me sick.

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39 minutes ago, BusyB said:

Yeah, I also felt sad that she was so gullible. But also that there are people around happy to do that to harmless, innocent, gullible people like that. Makes me sick.

i find it difficult to feel sorry for the lady! to begin with -as i see it- she isn't poor if she can afford to lose alltogether 703888 baht.
second, after she has been scammed the first time, only greed -as i see it - urges her to invest more.
in short, as for me , she wasn't gullible.

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7 hours ago, Sujo said:

I note victim blaming is strong here.

Of course she tried to make money, i dont hear many trying to lose it.

She was conned, i feel sorry for her.

If you continue to step in front of a speeding bus, you can't consider yourself a victim. 

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8 hours ago, foreverlomsak said:

and then doesn't understand why it happened to them, and try to blame those that tried to warn them off.

Well she blamed those that conned her. Rightly so.

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