News Forum - Pattaya’s perfect crime: Fake cops fleece shop owners in cunning scam

[Thaiger]

The bustling city of Pattaya recently fell prey to a scam that saw numerous shop owners tricked into parting with large sums of money by a group of fraudsters, cunningly disguised as fake cops. The fake police officers coerced their unsuspecting victims in Pattaya into paying substantial amounts to avoid what was falsely presented as … …

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[Fanta]

It is grim that fake cops only have to act like normal cops to get paid for it. 

[ChrisS]

Sadly this scam only works in Thailand because everyone know that real Royal Thai Police officers are corrupt. Despite the denials of the police that any real police officers are involved in this I must confess to being les than 100% convinced!

[cowslip]

"false" cops, eh?

[Pinetree]

18 hours ago, ChrisS said:

Sadly this scam only works in Thailand because everyone know that real Royal Thai Police officers are corrupt. Despite the denials of the police that any real police officers are involved in this I must confess to being les than 100% convinced!

Fake, real, what's the difference?   You get shaken down either way. 

[cowslip]

2 hours ago, Pinetree said:

Fake, real, what's the difference?   You get shaken down either way. 

THe difference is the taste of Thailand and corruption.  Once criminals are inside law enforcement, you have a whole new range of problems - Although in Thailand it isn't that new.

THe fact that the police have had to issues denials of their own involvement at all reflects so badly on the public's perception of the police in the first place