✨ VISA AGENT SCAMMER UPDATE ✨

I wrote a post a few months ago about how I was scammed by a “visa agent” that found me on this group. She took my 11,000 baht and and as soon as I sent the money asked for another 11,000 baht.

At that point I realized it was a scam and asked for the refund. The person kept promising to refund every day, stretching the time.

I finally went to the police and filed a complaint.

Long story short: I got my money back a few days ago.

💸 11,000 baht that the scammer took from me and never returned — now it’s back in my hands thanks to the police.

The scammer got anxious ONLY when she received a summon from the police. Basically if she didn’t show up (or rather the person whose bank account she is using), police would have the right to arrest her/him.

It took almost 2 months, but I didn’t give up. I hope my story inspires you too:

👉 If someone scams you, always go to the police.

👉 Be persistent. Don’t let it slide. BE PERSISTENT AT THE POLICE STATION. At first police didn’t want to help me. I just persisted and persisted. Take Thai/English speaking person with you. Otherwise, at the police suggest that you hire an interpreter (I’ve learned that it’s one of the reasons police didnt want to take my case at first. Worried about them having to hire interpreter by themselves).

👉 Keep the mindset: I will do whatever it takes to make the scammer pay. I took this scammer personally. My heart is singing right now that I won and that she’s the one begging police to unfreeze her account now. I hope her account is unfrozen with the same delay with which she returned my money. 🤣

👉 NEVER give your money over the Internet. Take a picture of person’s ID PERSONALLY before proceeding with any payment.

💭 To those who laughed at me for believing in the police — ha-ha, look at me now. 😁

💭 To those who supported me in the comments and in private messages with kind words and useful information about the scammer — thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are amazing. 💖

💭 And to the scammer (because I know you’re reading this): karma will find you. 😈

⚠️ Some people asked me to disclose her identity. I checked with the police — and the answer is NO, it’s not safe in a PUBLIC SETTING.

But just so you know:

🔹 The scammer was already removed from this group a few months ago.

🔹 She changed her profile name right after I reported her.

🔹 When she texts you, she rushes you to start cooperation with her, sends selfies with her being at the immigration, holding passports etc. Asks you to sends the documents and even reviews them for you. Do not think she’s not a scammer just because she knows a lot about visa process.

🔹 Her bank account was frozen as soon as I filed the complaint, and now the official process is ongoing.

💪 The lesson? Never give up. Justice takes time, but it’s worth fighting for. I could have lost. But I knew I would do ANYTHING I CAN to make the scammer pay.

Hi i am from nepal

A Person asked me for around 2600$ to change business visa in bangkok , i sent those amount from nepal too . After few months he again demand for 3000$ & told which was necessary for changing visa as his company's manager post. And i refused to go there and asked him to return those amount 2600$, he told me due to my reason he beared losses and paid fine thats the reason i cant get my money return back. Is it true? But he hasn't sent me any evidence. Please help. That person is also a Nepali.

I just had a Freind arrive in Bangkok with a tourist e visa to be denied entry as it was not recognised She is from Tanzania and I think scammed by an agent how do you check if the visa is real or not

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Hello. My husband and I are currently on the LTR (long term residency) visa. We received an email from what we thought was the LTR Visa Unit, stating that they are conducting post monitoring procedures to ensure that we have maintained our qualifications, and that we need to submit our documents. It seemed very legit. Until we found out it was not. Shortly after submitting our documents we received an email from the actual LTR folks warning us of scammers using fake LTR accounts. Unfortunately, the email address ended in '.com' instead of 'go.th.' We have already contacted the LTR unit. They said they will speak to their legal team but I don't know what they can do. We have done as much as we can to protect ourselves, i.e. froze all credit reports, added extra security to our financial accounts, etc. What else can be done?? Any advice would be appreciated.

There seems to be a large number of fake profiles making posts asking for help.

Hello guys, I my visa extension expires on October 1. I was told by a visa agency that they can do a covid extension for me of 2 months for 12000 baht. It didn't make sense to me... Does that mean that covid extension visa aren't over yet or that they can be done only through an agency or do you think that it is officially over and maybe I was talking to someone that had plans of scamming me.. ?

First time posting here. Thank you guys

I am so frustrated. Applied for 34 day tourist visa online. Paid. Got email 5 days ago requesting 6 months of bank statements and letter from employer confirming employment. Got all that together (in between working 16 hour days), go to the site and my application is gone! So now I have to pay again?

Hello, who knows where can do the volunteer visa? I asked some of agency said now paused for a while. 

The news is writted in english.

Is really important news.

They almost scammed me!