A 42-year-old Swedish man has filed a complaint with police after he was duped by a Thai woman with the promise of marriage, resulting in a loss of nearly 360,000 baht. The woman was already married, and her soldier husband threatened him with legal action.
This prompted him to submit a complaint to the media and file a police report in Bangkok.
Mr. Ahmet (Last Name Withheld) contacted the Facebook page ‘Sai Mai Tong Rod’ (Sai Mai Must Survive) in Bangkok on September 5 to submit a complaint to Ekkaphop Luangprasert, the page’s administrator and advisor to the Minister of Interior.
He told Mr. Ekkaphop that he encountered the Thai woman via a dating application. The woman promised to marry him by July and requested that he transfer 359,000 baht for wedding expenditures for an August ceremony at her home in Sukhothai Province.
When he arrived in Sukhothai, he met his bride-to-be, who set him up in a local hotel and said she needed to deal with problems at home due to flooding. He tried contacting her the next day and received no answer, so he waited and tried again a day later, only to have his calls and texts go unanswered.
Mr. Ahmet realized he had been deceived and left the resort to seek assistance from Thai officials.
He initially encountered a rescue worker who told him his story. He contacted her, and she agreed to marry Mr. Ahmet the following day. The next day, she called and said the village headman was unavailable, so they changed plans from a wedding to a traditional wrist-tying ceremony, with the rescue worker as a witness.
Later, after the wrist-tying ceremony, the woman asked the rescue worker to delete a post he had made on Facebook showing her tying her wrists with the foreigner. Moments later, a man called the rescue worker, claiming to be the bride’s husband and that they weren’t divorced, threatening to sue Mr. Ahmet.
He then told Mr. Ahmet about the troubling phone call and that the woman was married. He requested he be taken to the Si Samrong Police Station to file a fraud complaint against the woman. However, the police declined to accept his complaint.
While at the police station, the woman’s husband, a soldier from Tak Province, arrived and approached Ahmet, swearing at him in English and shoving him. They left the police station and contacted the “Sai Mai Tong Rod” page for assistance.
Ekkaphop Luangprasert, the administrator of the Facebook Page, stated that the Sai Mai Tong Rod team and their lawyer would take Mr. Ahmet back to the Si Samrong Police Station to submit another complaint.
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