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Four Nigerian men have found that the same old trick of impersonating handsome farang and parcel of gift mailing still worked on certain Thai women.
The only problem was that the trick led to their arrest by tourist police soon after.
The arrest of the four Nigerians was announced by Tourist Police Division Commander Pol Maj Gen Apichai Thiamart at his division head office at 11 am Friday.
The four suspects were paraded at the press conference. They were identified as Elijah Okuderi, 31, David Chukwudi, 31, Amaeru Chicollins Ndubuisi, 29 and Ibenarima Ejiroghene Owugan, 31.
They were arrested at their rented house in Prueksa 20 housing estate in Tambon Khukod of Pathum Thani’s Lam Lukka district.
Apichai told the press conference that the tourist police made the arrest following a complaint by a Thai woman in April.
The victim, whose name was withheld, told police that she met a man online via chat application and the man claimed to be a white American, called Kelvin David.
After a while, the man told her that he had mailed her a parcel through a transport firm. Later on, a woman called her, saying she worked for an international transport firm that handled a parcel that was sent to her.
The woman also mailed her a photo of the parcel and told her that she needed to pay Bt160,000 for customs clearance. She transferred the money to her and found out later that she was deceived.
Apichai said his subordinates carried out an investigation and found out that the farang David was actually Okuderi. Police obtained an arrest warrant against him and his accomplices on April 25.
Okuderi said he used to play for Angthong AFC, a team of Thai League Division 1, but he later suffered a knee injury so he decided to form an online scam with his three friends.
Police are still hunting for the Thai woman accomplice.
