The four members of the most
recent black money gang.
Boonlua Chatree
Three Africans and a Frenchman were arrested for
allegedly running a “black money” scam on Pattaya area tourists and
residents.
Fredrick Neba Fuh, 28, of Cameroon, Jean Messolo, 36, and
Ahmed Camara, 26, of Guinea; and Vincent Philipot, 40, of France were
apprehended at a south Pattaya hotel where they allegedly based their
illegal scam.
In their rooms, police seized 6,000 blank pieces of paper
cut to U.S. dollar size, five notes of an unknown currency, an aluminum
case, luggage and four mobile phones.
Transnational Crime Coordination Center investigators
alleged the four ran numerous scams in which they convinced people trying to
make a fast fortune by counterfeiting currency that they could turned the
black-coated paper blanks into American dollars by simply washing them with
chemicals in the aluminum case.
The scammers then had their targets pay large sums for
the supposed magic chemicals, then disappeared.
