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Jonathan Swift

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  1. Most likely they just steered her to an open kiosk, which she may not have seen, which are available to anyone and everyone. She's just a garden variety tiktok world pathological liar whose life would be meaningless (to her) if she didn't put on her little show on a regular basis. It's actually quite sad that she's got nothing else going for her but her looks and her bs stories. Now picture the kind of relationship such a person would be in, likely just a transactional relationship not based on honesty and love but on the superficial. Looks aren't enough to sustain a good long term relationship. No thanks. There are enough beautiful Thai women with big hearts and not an ounce of phoniness to them.
  2. Phone banking apps are generally safe and useful for basic things. I have been using them ever since they came out without any problems, going on 10 years. That includes a monthly transfer from Kbank mobile app of 50,000 baht to my US bank. I'm also careful and never open unknown SMS or email links. There was nothing in this story that would point the finger of blame to the bank mobile apps. This appears to be hacked phones used to access bank accounts online, or to access previously used merchant transactions, which would not necessarily involve the mobile app. If user names and passwords are obtained for the account itself the account could be accessed directly through the bank without the mobile app, and that is where the bank's liability comes in, when their security does not catch the attempted fraud. If malware was installed because someone opened a malware link in an SMS code then that's where the trail begins. But this article is sadly lacking in details.
  3. more often than not a trail can be found with a bit of diligence, even when stolen IDs are used.
  4. Which is why you never click an unknown SMS message. Those links often lead to malware
  5. Since a charger is plugged right into the data port on the phone a hacked or corrupted fake charger could install malware
  6. These people are just not happy unless they have something to complain about and some perceived injustice to make them feel self righteous. They were like that before they came here, and will never change.
  7. Yes, how many pounds or kilos and in what sized bags? Salted or unsalted?
  8. You haven't been paying attention, have you?
  9. And you've never watched them, you avert your eyes?
  10. Bozo and Clarabelle were big star clowns back in the day. So tiktok is the land of clown stars, driving their clown cars, clowning for clowns
  11. The tourist police are where they always are, stationed in the middle of walking street. I saw them over the holidays. Were you there, at the crime scene, do you actually know what you're talking about? Incidents like this can happen very quickly, remember, the tourist police are on foot. It doesn't take long for a criminal to escape a crime scene. Let's change your user name to "clueless".
  12. I believe in law and order, but if I saw a man hit a woman under these circumstances you might have to hold ME back. The owner will pay a small fine, and the Russian will have learned a lesson. Or not. Some people never learn. It's probably not the first time he ever hit a woman, probably not the last. If he's an alcoholic and a mean drunk, plus a typically pleasant Russian, he will continue.
  13. Remember, this is a Russian, generally arrogant, snobbish, not very nice people. Thai people don't like them and for good reason. I once caught a Russian stealing my freekin laundry basket, caught on video, and he acted like I was insulting HIM. I got him evicted from the apartment. I believe that he slapped the girl's face. That's the likely thing that would lead to a beating. Just my humble opinion.
  14. Remember, this is a Russian, generally arrogant, snobbish, not very nice people. I once caught a Russian stealing my freekin laundry basket, caught on video, and he acted like I was insulting HIM. I got him evicted from the apartment. I believe that he slapped the girl's face. That's the likely thing that would lead to a beating. Just my humble opinion.
  15. Rich people tend to be notoriously stingy and tight with their wealth, so does it make more sense to get $10 from each lower income person or try to get $100 from each wealthy person, if there are 10,000 low income people for every single wealthy person? I'm just making up numbers for the sake of illustration. By low income I mean anyone who's not rich. This is basic common business sense across the board, but these people seem to just endlessly speculate without being connected to the real world or knowing much about human behavior and the cultures whose money they seek.
  16. Doing it without an agent is pretty easy once you know the ropes. I don't like the idea of placing such important matters in anyone else's hands, plus the money saved is significant, around a few hundred dollars. But that's just me and my way, not everyone has equal skills with bureaucratic systems.
  17. Here is the non O retirement visa, it is not a sticker, there is no sticker for this.
  18. You don't have to use the 800,000 baht in a bank method, you can also use the 65,000 baht per month income method which requires a bank statement showing that income once a month for one year. Regarding your terminology, "the 1 year extension of permission to stay in Thailand on the underlying Type O visa", my visa very specifically states "non-O-retirement visa" . There is most certainly a "retirement visa". Regardless of your terminology, the extension and the visa are commonly understood to be the Non-O (type O) retirement visa. Attached is a photo of my Non O retirement visa, which you refer to as type O.
  19. You contradict yourself. "You can obtain a non O retirement" and then "No such thing as a retirement visa". If there's no such thing as a retirement visa what's this stamp on my visa page? A very vivid figment of my imagination?
  20. Here's how I've done it for the last 4 - 5 years. You don't need to do anything more to prove income, you don't need to show your home bank or any Wise PDFs or anything else. If you want to gather a bunch of extra redundant files just to "be safe" that's up to you, but not necessary. I transfer my monthly "income" of 67,000 baht from my US bank to BKK Bank once a month around the same time, using Wise. A couple weeks before my extension I order a printed one year bank statement that shows all of those transfers as international transfers. On the day of my extension I get a verification letter from my BKK Bank and update my passbook as well. The verification letter and passbook update needs to be done within a day of application, so I just do both on the same day as the application. That's it.
  21. Not everyone is going to evolve upward at the same time. There will always be some who devolve
  22. Let's go ahead and just judge everyone by superficial qualities like looks and dress. That would solve all the world's problems.
  23. They are. Therefore the US will be bringing trademark, intellectual property, and copyright infringement action against the guy. Then he will be hired to portray himself in the movie version of this story
  24. You can get it on the same day, if you've got the money to throw away you can use a service, but you end up participating, they just walk you through it.

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