Love on the rocks: Thai woman’s 5 million baht loss leads to threats from scammer

A Thai woman approached the non-profit organisation Saimai Survive for help after she lost 5 million baht to a romance scammer and faced threats after she tried to distance herself from the violent swindler.

The 37 year old victim revealed to the Saimai Survive that she lost 5 million baht to the scammer in three months. The woman explained that she met the fraudulent trickster on a dating application in April of this year. The man was charming at first and flirted with her until she was convinced to meet him.

According to the victim, the man promised to help pay off her 800,000 baht debt. To gain her trust, the man claimed to possess not one but two bachelor’s degrees in economics and boasted of being a stock market investment expert with a lot of money deposited in a foreign bank.

The man convinced the victim to create some financial credit by buying a car and…