Buriram, Mother reports to police to help daughter recover more than 500,000 baht from missing money. Investigation of financial trail confirms no one transferred money out of account.
Mrs. Prakop, the village headman, who is the mother of Ms. Benchawan, aged 35, took her daughter to file a police report that 530,000 baht had disappeared from her bank account. However, the bank claimed that she had made the transaction herself, which contradicted the truth. She wanted someone knowledgeable to come and suggest a solution because she was stressed. She said that her husband went to work in South Korea about 6 years ago. At first, he would send about 40,000 baht per month to the family to spend in one of his mother’s banks. After about 2 years, her husband said that the money would be deposited into her account, which she already had at another bank (a second bank) to save for building a house. Since then, the money that her husband sends will be deposited into this bank account.
Later, her husband sent her mo
re and more money until it was 80,000 baht per month. Every time the money went into her account, after deducting family expenses such as electricity, water, and car payments of 22,000 baht per month, she would transfer it via an application to another bank (a third bank) because she wanted to keep it as an account for building a house as her husband had told her to. The latest deposit was 560,000 baht in her bank account.
Later, my aunt asked to borrow 200,000 baht, so I asked my husband and he allowed me to borrow it. Then on July 21, my aunt and I went to withdraw money from the bank. But when we got to the bank and adjusted the passbook, we found that there was only 33,000 baht left in the account. So I asked the officer and was told that it was a transfer from our own app to the original bank. I confirmed with the bank that I did not transfer it, but the bank replied that if the person did not transfer it, someone in the house must have done it. I told him again that it was impossible because my parents
do not know how to transfer money through the app. If my parents were going to make a transaction, I would be the one to transfer it. As for my 7-year-old and 4-year-old children, it was even more impossible.
The officer of the 3rd bank also said that if you plan to report it, you should consult with them first because it is considered a ‘false report’ which is punishable by imprisonment. So, my aunt and I went home to consult with our family, and my parents confirmed that they ‘never transferred anything and did not know about the transfer.’ Then, on July 22, we went to request a statement from the 3rd and 2nd banks. It turned out that the money I transferred to the 3rd bank was transferred back to the 2nd bank. But what confused me the most was that the money from the 2nd bank was transferred via an app since the beginning of the year, 10,000-20,000 baht at a time, sometimes 30,000 baht, to accounts in China and Vietnam, totaling more than 530,000 baht. Importantly, my mobile phone received a message notif
ying me of money deposited and withdrawn. But why did I receive a notification when I made a transaction myself? But when money was continuously transferred out since the beginning of the year until almost all of the account was gone, there was no notification message. With confidence, I went to report it to the police at Buriram City Police Station.
Ms. Benchawan continued that that day, when she returned home, she could not sleep. At around 10:45 p.m., a strange number called in, saying that the money that had gone missing from the 3rd bank, do not be alarmed yet. It was the bank’s fault. The bank would check her financial history. The next day, at around 10:00-11:00 a.m., the bank would transfer the money back to her account. At that time, she felt relieved. She was sleeping soundly, but she did not see any money transferred in. She was very stressed because it was money saved to build a house, so she took pills in an attempt to commit suicide. However, her family saved her in time. She spent the night in
the hospital.
Today, Pol. Col. Anan Thongbanthoeng, Superintendent of Nong Song Hong Police Station, revealed that he will coordinate with the bank and also check the apps or links on the victim’s mobile phone to check the financial trail and prove the facts of where the money in the account of more than 500,000 baht was transferred to and who transferred it because it is possible that the account owner or someone in the house may have transferred it or it was the bank officer’s mistake or the work of a scammer using an app to siphon money or not. He will expedite the investigation to find the facts as soon as possible.
Source: Thai News Agency