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Suspected Nigerian Internet scammers arrested in Pattaya

Police bring out for the media Nigerian scammers Chigozie Nnamdi Nwaogu and Onyebuchi Uchegbu.

Teerarak Suthathiwong
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.
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.

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