In the kind of scene usually reserved for action movies, an American man needed for financial institution fraud was captured on the final minute, one day before the statute of limitation expired on his crimes. Thomas Grimm, a 63 12 months old man from the US, was arrested at a hotel in Hua Hin accused of a rip-off 15 years in the past the place he defrauded bank prospects in a phishing scam.
The Economic Crime Division police managed to catch up with the fugitive within the Prachuap Khiri Khan resort town after a 15 12 months hunt stemming from an e-banking fraud scheme in October of 2006, against the law with a statute of limitation of 15 years.
According to the ECD, the rip-off was a three man operation with Grimm and a pair of Thai nationals. The group tricked bank prospects into revealing their confidential data that allowed the thieves to access bank accounts and steal cash from them. The scam labored by sending phishing emails to financial institution customers sending them to a bogus website that mimicked their bank’s home page.
That page had them “log in” and picked up their details to give the scammers entry to the customer’s financial institution accounts allowing the criminals to withdraw cash from the accounts. According to the police, one sufferer had tons of of 1000’s of baht withdrawn from their account.
โซล่าเซลล์ราคาถูกคุณภาพดี into the financial institution fraud started in February 2007 when Kasikorn Bank filed a complaint in opposition to the 2 Thai scammers, a man and girl, alleging that the duo colluded to defraud their clients. They have been arrested, and through interrogation they named Grimm as a co-conspirator.
Police obtained a warrant for Grimm’s arrest for the financial institution fraud from the Thon Buri Criminal Court on Monday, and police managed to meet up with him just in time, in the future before the 15-year statute of limitation expired..