This website is aimed to educate about some of the scamming tactics being used by Thai woman with long term romance scams in hope of helping to prevent some people falling victim. The website was inspired by experiences with a romance scam and an advance payment scam by a Thai girl that likes to use the fictitious name of Somoka. She has been known by many names in the past including Chonticha Yadoung, Chonticha Panyakoon, Chonticha Bellemare, C.Sasumi, SW Tasi, Somshine, Pimpanit Puttiseth, Katii Huskyy, and Som Puttiseth. She also possibly used a married name of Pimpanit Jackson or Pimpanit Brill in the past. Possibly Jackson was a fictitious surname name used by her second husband. It is not known what legal name she currently uses.
Sadly, much of the information has been taken off this website for now, pending a legal action by her new boyfriend who is desperately trying to hide Somoka's fraudulent past from the public eye. It seems since he has been unsuccessful in his efforts to get Somoka to be honest about her fraud and rectify it, his next option is to adopt Somoka's complete denial and try to prosecute her victims that have exposed her fraudulent lifestyle. He is not the first boyfriend of Somoka's to be in strong belief that she is one of the few woman in Thailand that does not lie. We all strongly believed that for some time, only to find out the hard way how mistaken we were.
The website will eventually be rebuilt with tips about about how to recognise scams by Thai woman based on experiences with Somoka.
Somoka made a false declaration that she is the exclusive copyright owner of all the photos and video on the website. These were photos and video that I took with my own camera while she was on her scamming missions, so is unknown how she could claim that she is the exclusive copyright owner. This action appeared to be initiated by her second husband. But that marriage quickly fell apart with Somoka plotting with one of her boyfriends to leave her second husband within 1 to 1.5 years of marriage. This appeared to be and exact repeat of what happened with her first marriage with the same time frames. For the most part the boyfriends never knew she was married at the time. Somoka's latest boyfriend then took up the fight to hide Somoka's fraud, sending the same false declaration to our new web host, making strong threats to take legal action against them if they did not comply with his demands.
Somoka's current boyfriend then enlisted the help of a private investigator who was also his personal friend. The private investigator wanted to save his friend from having to spend a large sum of money taking legal action to hide Somoka's fraudulent lifestyle. The investigator made inquiries about hiding Somoka's past fraud from the public eye (shutting down the website) if she now became a reformed person. Of course I would happy if Somoka was a reformed person, and would be willing to explain her past fraud, and pay back all financial gains she got purely from deception. But I knew that would never happen. She would have already have discussed her past fraud if she was reformed. It was not too long before the PI was in contact again explaining that Somoka's boyfriend was in the process of taking legal action but Somoka had disappeared and became non-contactable. She had told the boyfriend that she was going to look after her sick mother. This was a common excuse Somoka would make, amongst many others, when she had run off with other boyfriends or was busy with secret husbands. I would later find out this again turned out to be the case and she was still in the same pattern of lying to her boyfriends. The private investigator knew this type of situation well. It was common with many girls throughout Thailand. He warned Somoka's boyfriend that he should never try to contact Somoka again, but we both knew he would not be able to resist. Somoka cast a very alluring spell. It was also certain that Somoka would soon go running back to him when she needed more money, after extracting what she could from her other boyfriends or husbands. The private investigator's original intent was to help shut down the website, but he ended up suggesting that to keep the website up to help others that Somoka had deceived or may deceive in the future. The PI pointed out that the contact email on the website had stopped working. Strangely enough, as soon as the email was fixed up yet another boyfriend of Somoka's was in contact querying about her past frauds.
A year later Somoka's new boyfriend got in direct contact. No surprise he had gotten back with Somoka and she was now living with him. He offered to rectify Somoka's fraud, and more importantly, get her to give a full explanation of her years of lying, cheating and scamming. He seemed like a genuine guy and insisted that Somoka wanted to sort it out as much as he did. But Somoka had already shown that she had no intention of explaining or rectifying her fraud. She would have long done it if she had any interest in doing so. And now she had a man who she expected to make it magically disappear without any action or effort from her. After more than a year of trying, the boyfriend still failed to get Somoka to give me any explanation at all of her fraud. He claimed that he had talked to her about it extensively, but there was no explanation from him or her. He occasionally complained information I had published was wrong, but he declined to give any indication of what was wrong or any correction for it. He started to echo the same lines as Somoka "Not true, not true, not true" when he really had no idea. It was quite odd for someone who claimed they wanted to sort out Somoka’s fraud, that they were not willing to explain or correct any confusion or misunderstanding they insisted I had. With Somoka not being forthcoming, the boyfriend asked me to write a series of questions for her to answer. I spent a few months putting questions together, but the boyfriend seemed to be very upset when I finally sent the questions he had asked for. This was possibly because it spelt out some of her years of compulsive lying and deception. He claims to have again spoken to Somoka about it in-depth and got an explanation, but he did not care to share it. Again he claims Somoka has never been fraudulent and insists that her years of obtaining funds by deception was not something that she planned. I guess that was just an unexpected bonus from years of having secret husbands and juggling multiple boyfriends on the side at the same time who she constantly lied to. The new boyfriend seemed to get more upset when I told him I thought he was delusional if he insisted that Somoka did not mean any of it. He ordered that I never contact them again and even made a complaint to the police wanting me prosecuted for exposing Somoka's years of fraud. It was almost like he was trying to set me up for some kind of entrapment. First hiring a private investigator who encouraged me to keep the website up. Then encouraging me to communicate with Somoka to sort out her fraud, but then complaining to the police when I did. I am starting to believe he is not genuine in wanting to sort out Somoka's fraud. All it would take is for Somoka to explain her years of deception and fraud, and then pay back any funds she obtained by deception. He thinks trying to drag in numerous other people will magically make Somoka's fraud disappear without her giving any input or making any effort at all.
In the 15 years of knowing Somoka I have only ever heard her be honest once, or at least partially honest. This was after years of her begging me to wait for her to sort out some undisclosed family issues. She finally told me that she could not lie to me anymore and admitted that she was actually married. So while she was finally honest with me, she was continuing to lie and cheat her first husband. I quickly parted ways with her feeling like a fool for being lured in and believing in her. However, a few months later she was back with her sob story begging me to wait for her to get a divorce with the lure of wanting to start a family with me soon. She promised that she would never do to me what she had done to her husband. But it turned out she was just luring me in to become more trusting of her since she had finally been honest and insisted that she could not lie to me anymore. In reality, it was just the start of even bigger lies and deception that I became blind to for many years. Little did I know she was doing the same thing to multiple other men at the same time.
It was only when I found out by chance a few years later that Somoka had yet another husband named Julius Jackson or Julius Brill, while she was still receiving thousands of dollars from me, that I started to get some idea of her continued deception. Of course she denied having any relationship with Julius. It was the first time I had any idea or evidence that Somoka had continued to be a compulsive liar for years. I was beginning to realise I had destroyed many years of my life based on years of Somoka's lies and deception. But the evidence I had was coming from complete strangers, and I did not know if I could believe them. Of course I wanted to believe Somoka's world of deception. I just did not want to believe I had been so easily fooled again for so many years.
So for another 2 years I plunged into a dark mindset doubting my perception of everything in life. This was when the Somoka Thai Scammer website was born, looking for answers, and as a warning for others that maybe were being scammed. Lost and confused in life I eventually ended up in a foreign hospital after a serious accident with a shattered spine and several other major bones in my body broken. While laying in hospital not knowing if I would ever walk again, another one of Somoka's boyfriends who had found the website and contacted me. He did not know Somoka had married again, but Somoka had been plotting to leave her second husband for him. Comparing notes, it became clear Somoka's deception was greater than I had ever imagined. It turned out, unknown to me, this same boyfriend was living with Somoka when I had once travelled to Thailand to see her. That explains why it turned out to be a very terrible holiday. She would only see me to scam more money from me. It appears she left that guy a week later to holiday with yet another boyfriend that was coming to see her, who is believed to have eventually become her second husband. When she decided that she did not want the new boyfriend (the future husband), claiming that he was too much of a playboy, she tried to move back in with the previous boyfriend she had been living with. When he would not take her back she came crying back to me since I had no idea she had any other boyfriends. Of course she was only out to scam more money. I never did get to see her again. When I travelled back to Thailand to see her, she again become non-contactable. It would be another couple of years before I would find out that it was because she was with another boyfriend or new husband. She had actually gone back to both boyfriends as soon as she got money from me. By that time I had totally lost my mind, confused about reality, and was sending her thousands of dollars. It is not know how many boyfriends she was jumping back and forth between. As soon as she got money from one boyfriend she would disappear to the next.
Laying in a hospital bed it was upsetting to realise how destructive Somoka had been in my life. But finally having some certainty about the reality of Somoka started to bring some sanity back to my mind. It took 3 years of operations and struggling before I could start to walk almost normal again. In that time Somoka finally discarded her second husband and moved onto her latest boyfriend. He kept hassling me wanting to hide Somoka's fraud while I was trying to learn to walk again.
It is yet to be seen if the current boyfriend will make good with his promise to set up a face to face meeting with Somoka for her to explain her fraud and pay back all funds she received through deception. I can't imagine that will ever happen. Since I now have much more knowledge about her life of deception, Somoka does not know what she can lie about. Most likely the boyfriend will try to push forward with prosecuting me for exposing her fraud. The current boyfriend should be very careful teaching Somoka how to get away with her deception and fraud. One day he will be on the receiving end of it.
I encourage Somoka to rectify her fraud and stop lying, cheating, and scamming people.
I tried making a purchase of Somoka’s artwork from her etsy shop www.etsy.com/shop/somoka. But weeks after placing the order the artwork had not been sent. What a surprise, paying Somoka for something and not receiving what you pay for. I tried to query Somoka about my purchase through her etsy.com shop multiple times, but after 2 months there was still no response from her. So I lodged a complaint with etsy.com. They were very quick to respond. They also received an almost immediate response from Somoka who then pretended to immediately send the artwork I had purchased. I actually received an artwork file from Somoka, but on inspection it was just a saved picture of the advertisement of the artwork, which anyone could have clicked on the advertisement and saved. It was not the real artwork that I had purchased. The fraud never seems to stop with Somoka. On further complaints to etsy.com Somoka stated that she did not have the artwork and she was finally forced to give a full refund. It was the only time I ever received a refund from Somoka after she scammed money. However this was a very insignificant amount compared to the many thousands of dollars she has obtained from me by deception.
If you would like to hire Somoka to help her pay off her fraud, she can be contacted at Bubbly Design - www.bubblydesign.agency. Strangely the reviews for Som on that website are much different to my experiences with her. When I agreed to hire Som for work she demanded payment in advance, then took my money and run without doing any work, and lying every step of the way. I am still waiting for her to refund all money she received as payment for work that she never had any intention of doing.
Check back in the future for more details about how Thai scammers operate and all the little tricks they use to fool you.