A Cameroon woman has been arrested at Suvarnabhumi airport on Monday after trying to enter the country with a counterfeit tourist visa.
Immigration police ordered a thorough check on the travelling document of Mirabel Misori when she presented her passport at an immigration counter at Suvarnabhumi international airport.
The police suspected the visitor was using a fake visa and their suspicion turned out to be true after using a detector to verify it.
Ms Misori, 26, said she had paid US$800 to a man in her country for a fake visa to enter the country as a tourist with a plan to find a job in Thailand, Pol Col Paritthipong Prayoonsiri, the deputy superintendent of the immigration office at Suvarnabhumi, said.
Information on the fake visa showed it was issued by the Thai embassy in Cameroon.
The Cameroonian came to Thailand on Kenya Airways flight KQ886 from Nairobi, Kenya.
Visitors from South Asia and Africa are on the target list of the immigration police at the airport on the possible use of forged visa in search of job opportunities.
She was handed over to the Suvarnabhumi Airport police station for legal action.