Six Nigerians Ran an AI Deepfake Romance Scam from a Nonthaburi Riverside Condo. A Cocaine Bust Led Thai Police to Them.
Thai police raided a luxury condominium on the Chao Phraya River in Nonthaburi on May 22 and arrested six Nigerian men running a romance scam ring built on AI-generated faces and fake video calls.
The trail started with cocaine. In April, police arrested a Nigerian man named Patrick and three associates on trafficking charges and seized 2.5 million baht in assets. The money trail led to foreign nationals on student visas living five or six to a unit in a high-end riverside condo near Phra Nangklao Bridge, none enrolled in school, none working.
Police executed three warrants on three units, forcing entry after the suspects refused to open. One man tried to climb over a balcony. Another lay hiding on a bathroom floor, texting the other units to warn them. Officers seized 18 phones, three laptops, and three bank passbooks, the phones still open to active romance scam chats.
The group posed as pilots, US military officers, doctors, and engineers, built relationships with older Thai women, then claimed a valuable package was stuck in customs requiring a transfer fee. Investigators recovered AI-generated Western faces used to produce fake video calls, and "sexy chat" scripts written to push older women toward transferring money. Police said a single well-crafted line could convince a victim to empty her account.
All six face initial charges of illegal association (อั้งยี่) and immigration overstay. Fraud and romance scam charges are pending.
If you are a young man yet to marry, especially if you live abroad or plan to travel abroad, marriage will determine the direction of your life.
I spoke to five men today, and they were all complaining about their wives. They are patently unhappy and are considering leaving. I am not joking. The stories they told me were pathetic.
Their stories are incomplete until one hears the stories of their wives, too, but the problems with marriages are becoming too much, especially among us Africans. What exactly is the problem?
So, think twice before you marry that person. You have been warned.
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