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August 17 2004

Farang crook poses as Thai bride

Farang crook poses as Thai bride

The smiling face of would-be mail-order bride, Thaee Maiyuran, once appeared regularly on the pages of legitimate Thai/farang matchmaking websites such as Oneandonly.com. Dozens of foreign suitors emailed the pretty Thai girl, completely unaware that they were, in fact, corresponding with a 50 year-old German bloke called Rudiger Reischert.

Our very own Mr Peter dropped Thaee a line but, instead of receiving a sweet and carefully misspelled reply, he was emailed by the Thai police. They told him that Reischert had been arrested. After swindling around half a million baht from lonely farang men, the conman was now facing up to seven years in jail.

His scam was simple. "Thaee" would promise to meet the men in their own country if they wired "her" money for visas and flights.

In the months that followed, arrivals lounges all over Farangland echoed to the tearful cries of love-sick farang men clutching wilting bouquets - but at least they were spared the sight of a fat middle-aged German puckering-up for a kiss. None of them heard from Thaee again.

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Reischert's luck finally ran out when American victim, Dennis Zorensen, alerted the Central Investigation Bureau of the Thai police. He told them that he sent Thaee US$1,500 through an agency called Thai German Consult.

Officers from the Crime Suppression Division and the Tourist Police traced the deposits to an account at the Thai Farmers bank operated by Reischert and arrested him shortly afterwards.

The Thai police are to be congratulated for their swift and effective action against the devious German but some would argue that thieving Thai con-girls pulling-off the exactly the same scam enjoy diplomatic immunity.

Perhaps it's just as well, though. With the province of Isaan transformed into a gigantic penal colony, the only live show in Pattaya would be ancient sun-bleached condom wrappers blowing down empty streets.

More details

Defrauded foreigners can contact the CIB at this address

Operation Centre
Central Investigation Bureau
Royal Thai Police Headquarters
Building 8
Room 304/1
Unridunant Road
Patumwan
Bangkok 10330
Thailand

Email: cib@police.go.th

[Posted to News by David]

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Readers' comments

nick adams says:

at least your average bar girl puts out before ripping you off. but morons stupid enough to send money to the third world sight unseen deserve whatever they get. too bad there's no super-effecient police force (ahem) for the world bank.

Whippet says:

I have to congratulate you, David, on another fine, fine image to accompany this article. It runs a close second to the ecstatic 'I love korat' quadroped, great stuff!

Farangutan says:

He kind of looks like my step-grand-dad, grumpy old scouser cunt that he was - may he rot in hell.

mr peter says:

I am still writing to Thaee and she gets out of prison next year. She assures me she is not German and I am sending her money every month for things she cannot afford inside such as sausages and rye bread. I do wish you had not published my photo david, I don't want to attract any gold diggers-peter

Bowser NoPobum says:

Who is/was Unridunant?

AVID says:

I swear I saw this man on the beach in Cha Am last week, he was snogging a ladyboy in public!

Goramohagith says:

Peter, you were lucky. I fell victim to a similar scam. Unfortunately, I ended up married to a fat 44 year old Austrian butcher. A couple of months into the marriage I twigged that something was amiss, but when I confronted Klaus she insisted that the 50,000 baht allowance I handed her every month was being used to support her sick grandmother in Surin.

Hindsight is 20/20 as the old cliche goes, but I should have recognised the signs earlier.

Mr Clean says:

Love springs eternal.

What would you have to complain about if the poor lass turned tail and ran from your fond embrace screaming, "Pheeeeeew, you smell velly bad."

Sight unseen is also smell unsmelt.

SiLeakHunt says:

Why does someone always beat me to the best ideas ?

Bollocks

tobias says:

wasn't there another article about some farang conning thai women?

hey will the thai central investigation bureau help to bring to justice all of the bar girls who have jacked their numerous boyfriends for all their assets and their livlihoods?
because arresting this guy for defrauding foreigners under false pretenses kind of sets a legal precedence for the thai judicial system.
but then again it is thailand that i'm talking about.

i'd like to see somebody take their thai girls to
'the people's court' judge woppner will bring you justice!

toby says:

wait there's more.....

because theoretically this guy hasn't done anything that a thai bar girl hasn't done.
if he could find a case where a foreigner attempted to press criminal charges against a bar girl for fraud, where the bar girl was acquitted of the charges, he can build his defense around that.
depending on how jacked up the thai legal system is.
but i doubt many foreigners have attempted to seek legal action against their lying girlfriends.

Pat Paulsen says:

"but morons stupid enough to send money to the
third world sight unseen deserve whatever they get."

Have agree with this; not even I fell for that kind
of scam. I guess one in a thousand are pretty
good odds if you've contacted several million.
That's a thousand positive hits.

"Sight unseen is also smell unsmelt." Funny line!

Yeah...I still have a sweater given to my sweetie to
wear when last there, which she returned to me before
departure. Now I bring it out whenever I want the
closest scent to being in her arms. Talk about simple
pleasures! Can't wait to get back.
I left a pair of boxers too; wonder if she's
doing the same.

leme tell you about the sand in my pocket..

Pat

buffalo_bill says:

I wonder if my fellow countryman R¸diger has not been simply misunderstood . I know from my own experience that 1500 USD are nothing but an insignificant amount once you get hooked to an illiterate sweetheart fron Udon Something with a sick buffalo at home. For those who are willing to spend and enjoy it , Herr R¸diger is a device that t limits expenses to just 1500 USD til the disappointment comes and is further guaranteed HIV negative. Instead of sitting in jail to my opinion he deserves the Purple Heart or whatever is conveniert.

BuBi

mr peter says:

Toby, this case was some time ago and the papers said he was facing several years inside, what the outcome was I don't know but I expect he did get a spell inside. What he should have done of course was to have run the scam from Germany. IMO many thai dating sites are not much more honest, just a bit more polished-peter

toby says:

so if he was convicted of those charges, technically every farang duped by a bar girl could seek legal action against his two-timing tilak. technically.
i guess it's insane to think of fairness in a country where the average income is a little over a hundred dollars and the gaps between different incomes are probably really wide.
if you think about, this would be a very easy scam to pull judging by thailand's reputation for young women looking for an easy way out, that coupled with single and lonely foreigners with fat pensions especially ones who have been to LOS. post a pic of your favorite bar girl on face-pic.com and play off people's emotions. it could be very lucrative.

BEENTHEREDONETHAT says:

"technically every farang duped by a bar girl could seek legal action against his two-timing tilak"

Technically the duped falang should sue his dick

KDub says:

Hopefully, he'll get himself some real "dates" in jail.

liveonedge says:

It is bad to be screwed by some bottom less box of a thai girl but a frang how shame less this guy should be shot .

Mike T says:

As long as she has not deliberately set out to defraud the man the court would be reluctant to intervene and the police will say that you are an idiot.

I had a case of a young lady who received a sizeable deposit from a Swis gentleman for a business venture. She spent it.

This guy was most pissed but what could he do?

The answer of course was to hire a plain clothes policeman to pressurise her to pay it back. Took six months of payments but all recovered.

Never send money unless you are willing to lose it. You can buy tickets originating in Thailand from an agent in your own country. With e-ticketing it only takes an e-mail to send it to your sweetheart.

BEENTHEREDONETHAT says:

"Never send money unless you are willing to lose it. "

Exactly. Think like this and have some FUN. You cannot have fun worrying about your money all the time. If you think that the worse thing that can happen is you lose some money then stay home, count your money and keep wanking.

Life is just a game but the score is not kept in dollars.

Ali Gator says:

Are there any thai girls online that Mr. Peter HASN'T tried to contact?

logologo says:

nothing wrong with rudiger.

i would say he don't really commited a crime. he was not violent . just make a lot of man from the west very happy, let them think they take good care of a poor girl and her grandfather too.


on the internet, nobody knows you 're a dog
http://cn.carnet.hr/med/970131/k01.html

tom says:

I met a russian woman in Moscow and sent her the visa, airfair money and she pocketed the money ( 6 months ruskie wages to them ) but it did not end there, got a bleeding heart sob story about she needed a further 700 us dollar for a new passport.
Never send money,if they need to see you so bad tell them to go get a bank loan and buy own ticket.

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