A 75-year-old Thai woman was lured into Gold Future and was defrauded of more than 18 million baht after 17 transfers.
The victim said the connection was established several months ago when a Thai man named Thavisak, also known as Tee, initiated a conversation via Facebook by pretending to have sent her the wrong message.
After that, they kept communicating online. When she was hospitalized, Tee even sent flowers to express his concern for her. Soon, they established a romantic relationship. Tee then invited her to invest in the Gold Future platform.
On July 13, she transferred 100,000 baht to Tee for the first time. She later sold her diamond and gold accessories and borrowed money from relatives to invest in the business.
Her son said his mother invited him to invest in the Gold Future business in early July. She told him he would make double the money from his investment. He realized it was a scam as such high profits were impossible and warned his mother to stay away from it.
However, in August, his mother borrowed 1 million baht from him and his brother on the pretext of meeting family expenses. He was confused because his mother had never had financial problems before.
On October 6, he discovered that his mother had transferred money to the scammer 17 times, amounting to more than 18 million baht.
After learning that his mother had transferred money, he called Tee. Tee assured him that his business was entirely genuine and vowed to send him documents to prove the claim.
He tried to check with the florist to determine Tee's true identity, but the florist refused to disclose the customer's information.
The son said he had reported the incident to the police and the case was still under investigation.
