Court warrants had been issued for both men that same day in connection with a police complaint filed by an unnamed victim in Kamphaeng Phet who claimed to have transferred Bt1 million to the gang. The victim said she’d been courted on Facebook by a good-looking foreign man who proposed marriage. Then he claimed to have mailed her an expensive gift, but it had been seized at Customs and she needed to send him Bt1 million to cover the excise tax on the item. More victims in Kamphaeng Phet have come forward with similar complaints. Surachet said the Nigerians’ arrest was part of a weekly “Black Eagles” police operation targeting crimes among immigrants.

Source: The Nation Bangkok February 08, 2018 06:11 UTC