Bunsie Sakipon fronts court over fraudulently obtaining money

A dodgy Melbourne personal trainer conned gym goers out of $110k, including telling a couple a lie that his sister died of cancer to win them over.

Dodgy personal trainer Bunsie Sakipon fleeced gym goers of more than $110,000 by mostly convincing them to give him loans on the promise of paying them back.

A silver-tongued personal trainer tricked a gym goer whose daughter was receiving cancer treatment into loaning him money by lying that his sister died of cancer.

The gym goer and her partner were among 11 Victorians Bunsie Sakipon conned into giving him more than $110,000 on the pretext of either providing personal training or asking for loans with a promise of paying them back.

The 55-year-old pleaded guilty in the County Court on Friday to seven charges of obtaining financial advantage by deception and four of obtaining property by deception.

Court documents show Sakipon was a self-employed personal trainer who worked out of gyms across Victoria under the name Tyson Kosakul.

Lyndell Goldspink and her partner Krygger engaged him as their personal trainer and in June 2017, Sakipon told them he was fighting in a boxing match in Japan and a bet of $2000 would net the couple between $14,000 and $20,000.

Dodgy personal trainer Bunsie Sakipon conned a Melbourne gym goer to hand him $2000 towards a bet for his boxing match in Japan.

Mr Krygger paid him $2000 but a day later, Sakipon told him his opponent had withdrawn from the fight after pulling a hamstring.

Mr Krygger paid him a further $2500 after Sakipon said all further bets would pay out as a win and that he would go to Japan to sign the contract that he had won.

A few weeks later, Sakipon became aware that Ms Goldspink’s daughter was receiving cancer treatment and claimed that his sister had died of cancer.

Based on that lie, she gave Sakipon $6340 as loan but he didn’t pay any of the amounts back.

The highest sum he obtained was $47,400 from 19-year-old Brunswick Secondary College student Haouyin Tang on the pretext of providing personal training in late 2016.

Sakipon made excuses such as having issues with his ex-partner in a Mexican court whenever Mr Tang asked him for repayment.

Sakipon was arrested at a Richmond home and admitted entering into loans with

Mr Tang to settle other debts but said he always intended to pay back the money he owed.

He’ll be sentenced on August 21.