Nigerian Fraudster posing as a woman nabbed for defrauding Thai Women

A man accused of posing as both European men and women – without being either – to romance and scam upward of 400,000 baht from Thai victims over Line was arrested yesterday.

Mgbenka Oyalulu Ogochukwu, a 35-year-old Nigerian man, was taken into custody at his condominium Thursday in Lat Krabang. 
Police said they found evidence on his phone he maintained another identity as “Luis Mark” and photos of good-looking European men used to flirt with Thai women over the popular chat app.

After gaining a woman’s trust, police said the accused would tell them the large sum of money he brought for them was confiscated at the airport. 

The woman then would be asked to transfer some money to give to customs officers, ranging from 10,000 - 400,000 baht.

Ogochukwu also reportedly disguised himself as a British woman named “Gianna Addison” to scam Thai men using the same ruse.

Police Maj. Gen. Chan Vimonsri said the accused confessed to entering the country in 2012 to work at a Pratunam garment business. but later turned to earn a living through the dating scam. He was aided, police said, by a Thai woman accomplice who posed as a customs officer.

Ogochukwu was charged with being in the kingdom illegally since 2012. Police did not charge him with fraud, saying complaints must be made by the victims.

In another news, it was reported that this same Nigerian man was arrested over his involvement in an online scam which resulted in several Thai women being duped out of millions of Baht.
 
Now with the name, Ben Raven, 35, was arrested by officers from the Technology Crime Suppression Division at an address in the Bangkok’s Lat Krabang district.

Police made the arrest following scores of complaints from Thai women who told police they had each been conned out of 100,000 Baht.

The women explained how they had started chatting on Facebook, LINE and on dating websites to a man who they thought was living in Europe and who would soon be moving to Thailand.

According to Daily News, each of the women wired Raven hundreds of thousands of Baht after receiving a call from who they thought was the man they had been chatting to online.

During the call, the women were told how their new European love interest was being detained at the airport with more than one million Baht in cash and needed 100,000 Baht transferring into an account immediately in order pay custom charges on the cash.

Shaking my head for some Nigerians tho'