Liverpool fans warned of money-soliciting, ludicrous scam

 

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

LIVERPOOL FANS IN THAILAND are being cautioned to never fall prey to what appears to be a ridiculous, senseless scam soliciting money online to buy Bayer 04 Leverkusen manager Xabi Alonso an air ticket to the English city.

The Central Investigation Bureau has posted on its Facebook page to warn the English Premier League club Liverpool fans who are Thai nationals throughout this country and elsewhere to never transfer cash online to a bank account to which those scammers would almost certainly have instant access.

The online impostors are desperately drumming up Liverpool fans’ contribution to assisting the Leverkusen manager with his purported air travel from an undisclosed place to the northwestern English city where he has been more or less speculated to replace Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp at the end of this season.

Posting messages on Instagram in Thai, the unidentified scammers are soliciting each of the Liverpool fans to donate 8.5 dollars in cash otherwise transferred to the bank account falsely claimed to be the Spaniard’s, according to the CIB police.

Hundreds of thousands of Thai nationals, male and female, are known as staunch Liverpool supporters, albeit merely in spiritual fashion as they watch their favourite side play others in English Premier League matches on pay TV or online week in week out.

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Bayer Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso is the front-runner to become the next Liverpool manager. Top: photo: AFP/Lukas Barth and published by CNA, Front Page photo: AFP/Roberto Pfeil/Getty Images and published by Dw.com

Insert: Liverpool fans in Thailand. Photo: Liverpool echo

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