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) According to foreign media reports, A, a 70-year-old woman living in southern Thailand, recently received a call from a man claiming to be a police officer. He asked for cooperation, saying, “Your bank account has been implicated in an international money laundering incident.”
Mr. A, overcome with anxiety, transferred 410,000 baht (approximately 18 million won) to a specific account in Hong Kong guided by the fraudster. Afterwards, the fraudster advised that it would be safe to exchange the remaining deposit of 14 million baht (approximately 600 million won) into gold, and Mr. A purchased gold bars as instructed over several weeks.
A few days later, Mr. A noticed something strange and reported it to the police. Thai police planned a sting operation to catch the fraudsters. The police instructed Mr. A to hide the gold in a milk powder container and go to the agreed upon location, and investigators hiding at the scene arrested a Hong Kong man who came out to receive the gold.
The case took an unexpected turn after the arrest. The price of gold stored by Mr. A soared, resulting in a large profit. She sold her gold bars for 16.7 million baht (about 730 million won), making a profit of about 2.7 million baht (about 120 million won).
In the end, Mr. A left a net profit of about 2.3 million baht (about 100 million won), excluding the initial fraud damage of 410,000 baht. What is even more surprising is that Mr. A sold gold near the highest price, and the gold price subsequently fell by about 6%.
https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/277/0005669419
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