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Luxury cars, cash, extreme extravagance! Playing " love scam " to defraud 130 million, the Chinese " female devil " was arrested in Thailand!

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March 19 , Prathong, director of the Technology Crime Investigation Bureau of Pakret County , Nonthaburi Province, Thailand, and several officials jointly held a press conference to announce the successful cracking of a transnational investment fraud case and the arrest of the Chinese mastermind of the gang. It is reported that the gang laundered money through cryptocurrency, involving an amount of more than 18 million USDT (about 600 million Thai baht, 130 million RMB).

April 2, 2024 , a scammer established contact with a 50- year -old female teacher (victim) through Facebook , and then further communicated through Line . After the scammer gradually gained the victim's trust, he tricked her into investing in a Singapore fund through a fake application called " M-DAOP" , promising high returns.

In the early stage, the victim was able to withdraw money, so he increased the investment amount, but he was eventually unable to withdraw money and realized that he had been defrauded. During the 16- day investment process, the victim transferred 7 times, totaling 1.5 million baht, and only successfully withdrew twice, totaling 57,900 baht, and ultimately lost 1,442,100 baht (about 310,000 RMB). The victim then reported the case to the cyber police. After investigation, the police found that the fraud gang received the victim's funds through the bank accounts of multiple Thai suspects, and used cryptocurrency accounts to convert the stolen money into USDT , and then laundered the money through P2P trading platforms (such as Binance) and local Thai digital asset trading platforms.

Eventually, these USDT were transferred to digital wallets in Cambodia. Investigations showed that the ultimate owner of these digital wallets was a Chinese woman named Wu Di (transliteration, 27 years old). The police found that within two months, her account received about 18.4 million USDT (about 618 million Thai baht, 133 million RMB), and was suspected of being involved in multiple fraud cases.

In addition, her personal digital wallet also has a monthly flow of about 20,000 to 40,000 USDT (about 600,000 to 1.3 million Thai baht, 130,000 to 280,000 RMB). The police also found that the woman's digital wallet was related to 63 online reports, 19 of which had similar fraud methods, all of which were " pig-killing " frauds. The victims transferred money through the same bank account or account number, and the total loss amounted to 20,087,017 Thai baht (about 4.33 million RMB).

After collecting evidence, the police applied for an arrest warrant from the Criminal Court and successfully arrested Wu Di on March 14. She entered and exited Thailand through the Golden Triangle area of Chiang Rai Province many times, traveling to Cambodia, Laos and Malaysia. The most recent time she entered Thailand from #Cambodia and rented a luxury villa in Pattaya. During the search, the police found a passport used to register a cryptocurrency wallet, as well as photos of her extravagant life in Cambodia, including driving luxury cars, holding large amounts of cash, and even evidence of drug use.

During the preliminary interrogation, Wu Di denied the charges, claiming that her ex-boyfriend might have used her information to open a cryptocurrency account to launder money for a fraud gang in a neighboring country. She also argued that she frequently traveled to neighboring countries to sell online goods such as concert tickets, but the police already had electronic evidence that was sufficient to prove her criminal behavior . In addition, four Thai suspects have been prosecuted for opening bank accounts and cryptocurrency accounts for money laundering, three of whom have been arrested and the other is still being pursued. Currently, the police are further tracking down the assets involved and other related gang members in order to bring them to justice.