Jonathan Swift

Those are only the ones who got caught, therefore your comment is meaningless. So you think money laundering and embezzlement don't exist in your own wonderful country based on your narrow search? National Crime Agency? 99% of them never get caught.

This will be added to the statements and any other evidence and testimony provided by the vendor. There is a bit of a difference on video between someone reacting with surprise (didn't happen) and peering into the contents, and methodically counting money as if it were expected.

Just to be on the safe side I printed those instructions on photo card stock to fold and keep with me in my satchel at all times. It sounds like good advice which any good lawyer would give.

If you're gonna come to Thailand with pockets full of money and a t-shirt that says "I'm a dumb naive tourist" on it the scammers will swarm like bees around you. But to them they're just making a living, and charging what the market will bear - capitalism. I mean 60,000 baht? That's almost my entire monthly income. They could have asked around and gotten good advice, why didn't they? I'm willing to bet they carried stupid amounts of cash on their person and in their hotel. This doesn't mean there isn't an issue, this IS an issue, but will anything be done about it? Maybe. There seems to be more cabbies using meters than there used to be. The Bolt app will keep the cabbies in line by competing, and that app is great, I use it all the time.

When you have doubts you walk around and ask people. There is always an ex pat somewhere, or a Thai person, who will be glad to advise or help. But you should get your advice before you even set foot in a place. I've been here ten years and I'm still learning and noticing details that I wasn't aware of.

It's people who come here without doing any research or learning about Thailand. I studied it in depth for quite a few years before I came here, and when I came here I had friends to advise me about stuff like this. I knew about the crooked cabs, I knew not to take cabs from the touts at bus stations, I knew about police bribes, tourist trap roadblocks, etc. All that info is out there, yet people think this is gonna be just like Disney World in Floridaq.

“While e-cigarettesare illegal in Thailand extortion is not.” From the article. ?

Stay tuned

Red Skelton is in people’s closets?

A bank statement showing 25,000 baht in the account

Punishing the whole class for the behavior of one or two is cruel and unfair, these kids will carry resentment toward authority and laws for their entire lives. Additionally, this is a tactic used by Hitler on POWs. The Thai teachers are right. The kids deserve better. You should resign.

But road carnage, road rage, road murder only happen in Thailand and nowhere else, right? That's why you came here, because things are so perfect in your home country that you had to come here to find things to complain about.

In some Asian countries it's the death penalty, Singapore had an execution last year, Vietnam also has th death penalty.

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.

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.

more often than not a trail can be found with a bit of diligence, even when stolen IDs are used.

Which is why you never click an unknown SMS message. Those links often lead to malware

Since a charger is plugged right into the data port on the phone a hacked or corrupted fake charger could install malware

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.

Yes, how many pounds or kilos and in what sized bags? Salted or unsalted?

You haven't been paying attention, have you?

And you've never watched them, you avert your eyes?

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

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".

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.