The Forex-3D fraud with its many victims is just one of a plethora of financial scams in the country. Now that an investigation is underway, a number of socialites, including some well-known entertainers who are allegedly linked to the high-profile scam, have been charged with collusion or even imprisoned.
The Forex-3D scheme was operated like a chit fund or Ponzi scheme, with some new tactics to make it look more promising. It was largely based on attractive investment schemes involving the stock exchange and foreign currency trading as well as digital currency investments.
The Forex-3D operators lured investors with get-rich-quick mindsets who wanted to make profits from foreign currency exchange through forex-3D.com. The number of victims exceeded 8,400, while total losses came to more than two billion baht. The gang is said to have used the same well-planned tactic to entice many victims. They set up fake companies as a front and enlisted a number of wealthy socialites to present the scheme while spending a great deal of money to raise their business profile and entice more people into the bogus…
