TeaMonkey

I asked a Japanese and she thinks he will get 3 years in prison.

Surprised he didn’t blame it on brake failure. Nice to see the Thais spreading their culture worldwide. 

I need to top up my bank account to 800k within the next week but the bad UK £ exchange rate is giving me second thoughts. If I add 400k at today’s rate of 38 (or even worse as it’s sinking like a brick today) it will cost £10,500. A few months ago at 41 it would of cost £9700. So say I use an agent for say 20k baht and hope the £ recovers a bit next year are there any consequences. Will I be able to do normal extensions again with my own money?

“and ineffective management, like spending a huge portion of the budget on matters unrelated to child development. “

Like new homes, cars and holidays for corrupt officials. 

Notice that his video is sponsored by Night Wish group who own nearly all the bars in the infamous Soi 6.

The guy that set up the GoFundMe is a well known youtube e-beggar from Kamala in Phuket. He had previously set up a  GoFundMe to "help" a Thai girl with congenital ptosis but there were questions on the accountability of the funds raised.

I have my Bangkok Bank account I use for my retirement Visa money and use it for everyday purchases. I just found out someone has been using my debit card to pay for his Netflix subscription and purchases for the last few months.

It wasn't obvious at first to me as the main bank statement does not show where the purchase was made, just electronic transfer and it was mixed in with my day to day shopping. Non of these payments seems to be over 500 baht and that is the limit for sending an SMS. I only found them because I didn't realise if you clicked on the debit card on the banks phone app you could get a statement of that, and these said the payment was to Netflix, which I've never had an account with.

I've been rather complacent, having been used to UK banks where I've never had any issues, but this is my fault for not checking it more carefully.

So, called Netflix Thailand this morning and the guy was quite surprised when he checked my bank card number and found someone had attempted to setup 36 counts and has created 4 accounts and was using my card. They immediately blacklisted the card and said they would open a fraud case and I was likely to get the money back in 30 days but I needed to get Bangkok Bank to contact them to organise it.

Next visited the bank and explained the situation, showed the phone banking app with the Netflix payments. After about 30 minutes of phone calls and printing off statements the lady said it was not possible for Netflix to have my bank details. Again logged into the phone app and showed the Netflix payments and after more phone calls I got to speak with someone with decent English who opened an investigation case.

Cancelled the card and was charged another 400 baht and now have Mastercard instead of Visa but at least its not union pay.

So there's a chance a might get refunded, but the lesson learnt here is be very careful with Banking is this country.

Lucky the one millionth tourist happened to be a young photogenic lady.

2 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

After taking 10 months to get here and not seeing his old man for 3 years you would think he would want stay longer than a week.

Yes, but his work only gave him 10 months and 7 days holiday.

1 hour ago, Nyezhov said:

Thats why I drink Sangsom these days, for the purity

Actually, this is true. Sangsom is so cheap it’s not worth counterfeiting and it’s a distinctive taste so you know what you are drinking. As the last poster mentioned methanol is extremely toxic and it is easily produced when making alcohol. 

No ones got a chance of recognising it with it being pixelated like that.

Anything that he can get a big poster with his photo it seems. 

“it would backfire against the government to the point where the government could fall.”

And the military would take over? 

This must be the new jetski scam. The toilet is held together with water soluble filler and it collapses as soon as you use it. Police waiting outside to negotiate a deal.