Fake Cop Busted Selling Fake Cows for Gambling Habit

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Fake Cop Busted Selling Fake Cows for Gambling Habit

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Fiona Simmons March 14, 2023
Fake Thai Cop Scammed People for Gambling Money
The man would claim he sold cows and then would gamble with the money without ever delivering the animals
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The police in Thailand have arrested a man who not only pretended to be a cop, but also scammed people across the central Thai countryside. Then, Thaiger reported, the fraudster would gamble the dirty money away in casinos in Cambodia.

The man presented himself as Pol. Col. Wuttisak Phittakchan-im, 58, claiming to be a police lieutenant. He would go from village to village, armed with an unlikely weapon – photos of cows. The man would claim that he owns the animals in the photos and is looking to sell them for a fair price.

When Wuttisak arrived in a village in the Chang Lek subdistrict, he told village chief Pairat Unha that he sells cows and buffaloes for 250,000 baht (around $7,200). The fraudster went a step further, promising a discount of 1,000 baht for each animal if Pairat bought all of them.

Luckily, Pairat had seen some of the photos in an online chat room for cattle traders and immediately suspected that Wuttisak was lying. The village chief called the police, which quickly arrived at the scene.

The officers were dressed in plain clothes so that Wuttisak wouldn’t suspect them and escape. They spoke with the man and asked him to present his police ID. Instead of providing one, the con artist tried to make an escape. Luckily, he was successfully arrested and detained.
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