Donation fraud for injured cats, dogs

BANGKOK, June 23 (TNA) -- Fraud victims filed a police complaint against Facebook users, who allegedly posted the photos of injured stray dogs and cats to trick netizens for donations. Seven people and a monk submitted evidence and document of money transactions to the police. They claimed some suspected scammers canvassed donations on the Facebook page of animal lovers by posting the pictures of injured dogs and cats along with bank account numbers to collect donations. Surawadee Srisuksawat, one of the victims said she was an admin of the Facebook page “Rak Ma” or “Love Dogs”. Her page decided to transfer 10,000 baht to the donation bank account but later found the same message and the same bank accounts were also posted on other 5-6 similar pages. The page admins and other victims, who transferred the money or whose names and pictures were misused by this group of people filed the complaints to the police. The victim claimed that the fraudsters opened new bank accounts. When the victims sent messages to complain or warn them, they will immediately block the users, who sent those messages. The monk, another victim said his temple took care of stray animals and when he was asked for donation, he transferred the money of 10,000 baht twice. Investigators received their complaints and questioned them to further gather evidence. The initial damage is estimated at 100,000 baht. (TNA)