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2 hours ago, aidenai said:

 

picture of ID card deleted

aidenai - No one doubts that you meant well, but no one should ever post a copy of their identity documents online unless you literally blank out every bit of typed information and all of the barcodes. For your safety, please consider editing your post to remove the image, or ask a forum moderator to take down. 

It would be a trivial exercise to determine your full name, home address, house registration number, etc. from knowing just the card type, district, and birthdate. A Thai cop or bureaucrat will gladly take a few thousand baht to provide full details on a foreigner. 

This caution about posting Thai ID cards is especially true for foreigners holding type 6 cards. There are only a quarter million of them in circulation, FYI. The internet is a weird and dangerous place, and you can make enemies without meaning to. No sense making their lives easier. 

The OP and others are cautioned that unless you mask the entire barcode, it can still be scanned. 

19 hours ago, Dave3006 said:

Hi All,   This is more of a business investment matter.   

 

Rgds 

For commercial investigations in Thailand (the grown-up stuff rather than chasing after bargirls) it's a pretty narrow field. You might start here: 

VeriThai Investigations Co., Ltd. 

Orion Investigations Co., Ltd. 

4 hours ago, yellowboat said:

It shows lack of sophistication to just pay others to do your work for you when other more sophisticated methods are available, such as Thailand 4.0.  Use cameras.  They're cheap.  Nobody likes a snitch. 

"Nobody likes a grass", "snitches get stitches", and all those claptrap responses are wearisome. A lot of people like informers quite a lot -- law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, and especially the treasury.

They have a "Mug-shot" of this Thai.........

So I assume that he has "History"

Sorry, but that would be a wrong assumption. This is one of the standard forms the RTP and other organizations can print out on anyone with a Thai ID number. ••••••••• deleted•••••••••••

"Anyone", if you care, is a nebulous concept. There are an additional two protected levels in this database. One is available only to police majors (or equivalent rank) or higher. And the other is even harder to qualify for access to and if you're looking in there you'd better have a lot of weight or a very powerful patron. For reasons of national security, VIPs, etc. of course.

The current state of play at the Aranyaprathet/Poipet border per Tanya, owner of Bangkok Buddy Travel Services:

May 12, 2014 Update:

Korea passport holders may no longer make a visa run by land transportation. We will update if this immigration regulation changes.

Russia passport holders may no longer make a visa run by land border crossing at Aranya Prethet/Poi Pet. We will update if this immigration regulation changes.

Philippines passport holders may no longer make a visa run by land border crossing at Aranya Prethet/Poi Pet. We will update if this immigration regulation changes.

Brazil passport holders have strict land border crossing restrictions. Land crossing is allowed if the previous Thailand entry was via air and then a land border crossing will be allowed once within 3 months. We will update if this immigration

source - http://bestbangkokvisarun.com/news-and-updates/

Note that while included here, the specification for Koreans is not new; this has been in force for several months.

Just had a quick conversation with my friend who runs a visa and travel services company in Bangkok.

There were absolutely no problems at all for any of her passengers at the Aranyapathet-Poipet border crossing today, 11 May.

That included 30-day and 15-day visa waiver admit stamps for quite a number of different nationalities all with prior out and in transits.

Consider B.B.T.S., website: http://bestbangkokvisarun.com

Leaves Sukhumvit Soi 12 (the Korean Center) every day (except around New Years) at 05:00, spends around 90 minutes at Poipet for breakfast 08:30-10:00, returns to BKK 14:30 daily. 2200 baht for most Western passports. Normally one or two 10-passenger vans, three if it's a very busy day. No clapped-out buses. Safe drivers. Decent breakfast buffet food.

To clear up any confusion, the director of B.B.T.S. is called Tanya. She was an employee of Jack's Golf who had the temerity to expect her paychecks on time and in full... While Jack was self-destructing, she found financing and went into direct competition with him starting up her own tour and travel firm and putting in her own office three doors down. That put the final nail in Jack's coffin. Jack's old company has nothing at all to do with B.B.T.S. Tanya did not "take over Jack's Golf" or anything like that. This distinction is important because of liability issues left behind by Jack. B.B.T.S. is a wholly separate company with different investors.

Disclosure: I do not work for B.B.T.S. but I do use their services and consider Tanya a friend.

Edit: Seems that website is down for repairs. The alternate site is bangkokbuddy.com (B.B.T.S. is Bangkok Buddy Travel Service).

Scratch a Ghanian narco type and you'll usually find a Nigerian underneath. Ghana (and Mozambique and a few other sub-Saharan nations) will essentially just sell a passport to anyone who can provide a little documentation of any provenance and the appropriate backhander. The Nigerians know this and use this trick quite often, especially if they've been expelled from Thailand on their Nigerian passport.

stabbed multiple times in the head, torso and ankles

This is possibly a bad translation with the original source saying the victim's Achilles tendons had been cut. If so, this a "message wound". It says that the victim tried to walk away with someone's cash or property, or otherwise ran out on some arrangement.

How, pray tell, do they formulate the ambitious goal of helping 3 million SMEs get online when the records of Thailand's own Department of Business Development only shows a little over 1 million businesses (including corporations and liquidated and defunct companies and partnerships) registered all-time?

Should we postulate that the missing 2 million are less formal undertakings? I suppose we're just benighted foreigners for not seeing the immediate benefit of Google's might to roadside fruit stands; certainly I need online assistance to pick out the best watermelons. And certainly those smartphone toting farm country villagers need the help finding their way to the som tam shack one soi over.

The speculation that it will take an impossibly long time to search through 27,000 company registrations is completely unfounded. When dealing with a process that involves intensive human resources at a given stage, you automate the rest of the work first, look for indicators, then turn the humans loose on the most likely offenders. If you've picked your indicators correctly, the 10% most likely candidates will usually yield 50% of the offenders.

This afternoon I borrowed a copy of the Department of Business Development company registration database. It's painfully simple to start lists of companies with potential irregularities using some key data:

• Bare minimum capitalization of 2,000,000 baht to minimize fees at company founding and enable 1 work permit.
  
• Precisely hitting a minimum Thai shareholder ratio of 51% (or 61% which has been more common where land is involved); this usually based on the advice of the organization that assists with the company founding.
  
• The opposite case of 99% Thai shareholding in a lightly capitalized business; likely indicative of a preferred share structure.
  
• A single director with a foreign name.
  
• Clustering of an unlikely number of businesses at a single address.
  
• Clustering of the foregoing under certain business classification codes, esp. 70101 Selling or Renting of Own Real Estate.
  
• Chronically making small losses entirely attributable to selling and administration expenses with no income.
  

This isn't to say that one indicator means much on its own. But a registered business that ticks 3 or more of these boxes would go to the top of the stack for further scrutiny.

You might expect there to be at least 10% of the 27,000 total that would then be considered highly questionable, leaving something on the order of 16,200 Thai shareholders or less to be investigated along with 2,700 addresses.

Were we to take the investigation further, the next steps are obvious. Check which business addresses are in locations which are ordinarily residential, i.e. a condominium or housing estate.

Beyond that, you'd want to pull the names and ID numbers of the Thai shareholders in the enterprise, then crosscheck those in the Tax Department and Social Security offices to ascertain if the Thai person concerned reported sufficient income and paid sufficient social tax in the three to five years prior to signing on as a shareholder of the company concerned.

Those that have not, and it's likely to be a majority, can then be given the opportunity to prove that they contributed the required percentage of the value of their shares, either as cash or as property. One expects no such proof would be forthcoming, and the company registration is terminated.

It may have seemed like a fine idea at the time to choose as your nominee shareholders your ex-bargirl wife or girlfriend, her layabout brother, two motorcycle taxi pilots -- all people who've never paid income taxes or even held formal employment -- and the secretary of the company that did the start-up (whose name will suspiciously appear as a shareholder on dozens of companies when she barely make enough to pay the rent on her meagre apartment).

And it may have seemed like a good idea at the time to just blindly follow that business start-up expert who assured you nothing would go wrong in lieu of doing your own research and discovering that nominee shareholders were and long had been illegal.

Company, residence, work permit and visa... all gone, for no better reason than thinking one could outsmart the system indefinitely. Of course nobody plans to fail, they just fail to plan. Som nam naa...

I USED A COMPANY CALLED www.huahinpi.com , VERY GOOD SERVICE AND NOT OUT TO RIP YOU OFF. I KNOW THEY DO THE HUA HIN , CHA-AM AREA BUT DON'T KNOW IF THEY COVER ANYWHERE ELSE IN THAILAND

It's extremely unlikely that you did anything of the sort, considering that the domain you cite was only registered 3 days before you posted.

Domain History via DomainTools here

What's more likely is that you're a spammer, given that you revived a topic that had been dormant for one year, and the fact that a web search on your user name readily reveals posts on another forum where you announce this "service" that you've found.

At least you know you won't starve...regardless....did i read the words lack of common sense? where are we after all? anyway,imagine being ordered to bunkers before a nuclear attack and they make this offer,pretty cool I'd say...all in all,great it didn't happen.

Classy operators forego comment when one of their competitors commits a gaffe like this.

If people need to hire people to go around snooping on others that is pretty sad. Use your big brain and not your little one. You've obviously been involved with the wrong crowd. Pick your friends and lovers carefully. Don't get involved with prostitutes or yaabaa users. Just use the same logic you would in your home country; i.e. don't give out PIN numbers, don't open joint bank accounts or send sums of money from abroad. Keep your assets (stocks, bonds, cash, precious metals) in your home or other countries where it is under your control and yours alone. Keep the title of your car in your name. Always remember you can't own land here so don't bother with trying to come up with creative ways of making illegal purchases as the property will never be yours. If you need to have women followed then you are insecure. Always keep your guard up. If you want to provide for others when you are gone, make a Will.

This is absurd. Cash and inventory rarely go missing from a business when the owner is on the premises so how else is he to find out what's causing the losses? People rarely cheat on their spouse when their spouse is standing next to him or her. There are any number of instances where a person can be concerned when what's going on while they're present doesn't align with what seems to be going on while they're absent.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with insecurity in the pejorative sense. It has to do with confirming that another party has broken a legal or ethical contract. Nobody has much of a problem with conducting background check on others before hiring them, forming a partnership with them or marrying them. By the same token conducting a like investigations once that contract has been formed and once evidence begins to mounts that the other party isn't meeting their obligations is hardly snooping.

Is "debt collection" part of private detective services!? Can anyone help me with that topic!? PM me plz!! thanks!!

Generally it is not although there's quite a lot of overlap. A PI will often do asset location but generally with the intention of the client doing the collection or feeding the discovery back to a lawyer for a legal filing for a lien or seizure. Most jurisdictions put investigations and collections on wholly separate licensing tracks as well.

Hope PrivateEye CM is more reliable than BKK spyonthai.com, they don't bother to reply to emails sent to.Not bar girl related!

Might be of interest to note that in their current domain registration lifetimes, each of these three domains has been registered to a different registrant name but all using the same [email protected] email address: spyonthai.com ("Spy on Thai"), private-detective-thailand.com ("The Anox Group"), thailand-private-investigators.com ("T.I.P.I."). Draw your own conclusions as to why one operator would want to make it look like they are three different agencies.

Oh no! I hugely apologise, I just read your notice again and see now that I jumped to the gun. You were saying that the PI company didn't pay their bill not mine? So sorry about that. I do apologise. Pim

No harm done. Good luck with your venture.

American - Australian Private Detective Agency in association with the Thai-Lanna Law Firm in Chiang Mai.

All well and good but this only serves to illustrate the very problem about siting an investigations agency in a relatively small place like Chiang Mai. After just 30 minutes digging around with Google starting only from the info in this post, you can quickly determine that one of the two principals in this "agency" actually spends the majority of his time as a web content developer, freelance photographer and aficionado of antique bicycles, etc.

On the sunny side of things, it's to be hoped he's got professional-grade equipment. But the majority of a PI's work is not hiding in the weeds with a telephoto lens. It's research, interviews, pursuits and undercover work for the most part. Experience is not just simplified math dating back to the first case you worked. It's the total amount of time you've put in actively engaged in investigative work.

If you need a PI to check if your wife is cheating, the marriage is already dead......time to move on.

If you need a doctor to check your symptoms, you're already dead. Give up.

If you need a lawyer to handle your case, you're going to jail or you'll lose a lawsuit. Give up.

If you need a mechanic to check your car, you may as well take it to the scrap yard. Give up.

There's a huge gulf between meekly giving up on a marriage at the mere sign of trouble and in the wrong country getting a divorce which costs you half of everything, and getting proof from a PI then passing it on to a lawyer and getting a reasonable settlement.

Yes, she's cheating on you. 10k baht please.

That was pretty much the main tenor of the Citylife article I mentioned above.

I've also read on this topic in BKK Post Life section.

It seems a vast majority of PI jobs are directed towards cheating spouses, in LOS. Both male and female.

That's just a matter of perception. There are some really good PIs here who work exclusively in IP and copyright, fraud cases, mispers and so on. You just wouldn't know they're out their unless you specifically went looking for them. It's not the sort of thing that gets much in the way of headlines in general nor much play on those other forums where mouthbreathers whinge about their hooker girlfriends.

I recall Citylife magazine ran an article about a local CM detective specialist; was sort of an expose/investigative reporting piece.

Perhaps searching their web page will dig up this article, and the agency named.

That article is still live but the site it connected to is gone. Guess someone forgot to pay the hosting bill. The article is obnoxious because it comes off as gloating that they were providing Security Theatre of suits and ear-pieces rather than actual security. Not a good spokesman for the close protection trade.