In the type of scene usually reserved for action motion pictures, an American man wished for financial institution fraud was captured on the final minute, one day before the statute of limitation expired on his crimes. Thomas Grimm, a sixty three year previous man from the US, was arrested at a hotel in Hua Hin accused of a scam 15 years in the past the place he defrauded financial institution customers 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, a felony offense 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 staff tricked bank customers into revealing their confidential data that allowed the thieves to access financial institution accounts and steal cash from them. The rip-off labored by sending phishing emails to financial institution clients sending them to a bogus web site that mimicked their bank’s home page.
That page had them “log in” and collected their details to give the scammers entry to the customer’s bank accounts permitting the criminals to withdraw money from the accounts. According to the police, one sufferer had lots of of thousands of baht withdrawn from their account.
The investigation into the financial institution fraud started in February 2007 when Kasikorn Bank filed a complaint in opposition to the 2 Thai scammers, a person and woman, alleging that the duo colluded to defraud their prospects. They have been arrested, and through interrogation they named Grimm as a co-conspirator.
ติดตั้งโซล่าเซลล์ ราคา obtained a warrant for Grimm’s arrest for the financial institution fraud from the Thon Buri Criminal Court on Monday, and police managed to catch up with him just in time, at some point before the 15-year statute of limitation expired..