Thai woman’s marriage to ‘navy officer’ turned out to be one big scam

The Royal Thai Navy confirmed this afternoon that no seaman had conned a woman who said she married a naval officer who turned out to be a fraud.

After a nurse said she would go to the police over the lieutenant she thought she had married, navy chief Lt. Gen. Karnakorn Monthatpalin said they had concluded the man was a civilian unaffiliated with the navy in any way.

“It was a deceptive impersonation in the hope of building credibility, to mislead people into becoming victims,” Karnakorn said.

The nurse, identified only as A, said she would go to Bang Khen police tomorrow after discovering her monthlong marriage was a sham. Yesterday she told her story to online activist Ekaphop Leungprasert, saying the man had swindled her and her family of money.

The woman said she met the man, known only as Titan, on an unspecified dating app in March. The man…