PHUKET: An English expat has gone public about 814,000 baht allegedly stolen from his bank account in an ATM scam.
Following the Phuket Gazette report of the arrest of a Romanian gang for ATM fraud in Patong on March 13, Paul Treherne felt it was time to let other people know about his own ordeal.
The four Romanians were arrested for stealing as much as 100 million baht through ATM card scams.
It is believed that fraudsters in the United Kingdom used тАЬskimmersтАЭ to read data from genuine ATM cards.
Stored on USB drives, the data was later transferred to blank ATM cards in Thailand, police said.
The scammers then allegedly used the counterfeit cards to make fraudulent withdrawals from their victimsтАЩ accounts.
Mr Treherne claims that his Thai Military Bank (TMB) card was cleverly тАЬskimmedтАЭ right behind his back as he used an ATM at the United Overseas Bank (UOB) on Rat-U-Thit 200 Pi Road in Patong on January 27.
In surveillance footage shown to the Gazette by Mr Treherne, he was seen using an ATM as a European-looking man wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses approached from behind.
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