Two Nigerians were arrested for allegedly scamming a Thai woman out of cash through an Internet scam.
Chigozie Nnamdi Nwaogu, 31 and Onyebuchi Uchegbu, 34, were captured at a rented room on Soi Mabyailia 10 Nov. 7 and charged with visa violations as they investigated fraud charges.
Police accuse the Nigerians of running the old “million dollars in a bank account” e-mail scam on the Facebook website, targeting Thai women with a story that they had 15 million baht in a Thai bank, but couldn’t withdraw it due to having to pay a 100,000 baht processing fee.
Police bring out for the media Nigerian scammers Chigozie Nnamdi Nwaogu and Onyebuchi Uchegbu.
The scam asked women to transfer the processing fee into their bank account on the promise that, when the 15 million baht was released, they’d get a large share of it.
Police are trying to determine how many people fell for the scam.
