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Will monthly deposits (Transferwise) into a thai bank account be accepted as 'income'?    I'll probably do a retirement extension next year, and use a combination of seasoned money in a thai bank and some of my SSI money.

I won't need all the SSI money, and prefer to keep investing some of it in the US.  Was thinking 400,000 B in a thai bank, plus monthly deposits of 40,000 B or so.

The brother (who is a good guy) is involved now.  He's at least offering advice, and contacted the excise officer.

She now knows she won't go to prison.

Finding another is easy.   I'll let this play out for a few days.     

No responsibility.

I'm not that familiar with Thailand, but have more experience with other SE asian countries and ladies.

I won't get bled dry, just bruised and a little anemic.

 I like the lady, but that doesn't mean I won't walk away.

The video is very short, 3 seconds, and the only thing I hear the cop say is '......khap'.

She was getting ready to go to a funeral in the village when they showed up.   She says they came to the village  and asked around to see where she lived, and if alive.   The helpful villagers pointed the way and explained she had a farang BF.

Unless something shows up in thai language in google, I haven't found anything that describes the legal process.

She goes to the regional excise office for the meeting or hearing tomorrow.

The interest payment has to be paid by the end of december, and the monthly payments start in January.

The only thing I could suggest is she act apologetic and humble, and ask for the initial interest payment to be reduced.  (if posssible)

She has a fighting chance at paying the 2000 b a month.(but i know she's always late on her motorbike payment)

She's willing to give up her little business which doesn't really support her, and go back to work in the city to pay this off.

Thats going to have to happen, whether or not I continue seeing her.

Well, I thought I hit the jackpot when I found a cute, funny lady who had a job, and a paid for house.

I suspected her forte wasn't financial planning before this.

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She wasn't married to the farang who died.     

As far as I know, she wasn't a bargirl.   Married out of university, 3 kids, divorced 15 years later when her thai husband found a new GF, and has to scramble at various jobs since then, mostly working in nursing home or private care.

I've just seen the full copies of the document they brought to her house and they look legit.

What pisses me off is she admits she knew about this 3 years ago before we met.    Never mentioned a word about it.

She has an older brother (who is ok) who has bailed out most of the other siblings over the years at one time.     

It may be her turn.

(feel sorry for him, two other deadbeat siblings never paid him back)

What I can find online on the program is it provided up to a 100,000 baht rebate on qualifying vehicles.

Hard to imagine a new Vios earned the max payout?

Yeah, this smells.

If not a scam then it shows she may have other problems that will pop up in the future.

She claims to own the small house she lives in.

She said they sent  3 letters to the house, previously, which I guess she ignored.

she sent some partial shots of the repayment documents, which only shows some figures.

I'll see if she can send me pictures of the complete document.

She says she needs to pay 47916 by the end of the year, then make monthly payments of 2000.

Long story, and not sure I have all the details, or have them right.

The GF in question is divorced, in her 50's, and I've spent 2 weeks with her 4 times in the last few years.

(I'm still working in the US)

My GF had a previous farang BF, and they bought a new car under her name.  He made the payments.  (until he died)

After he died she could not keep up the payments, and 'gave it back'.   

I did not know about the 'first time buyer' rebate until today.  I'm not sure of how long she had the car, or how many payments were made.

She spent the rebate money to survive.   (she told me today)

Last night she told me the excise police visited her home,  and she actually showed me some video of her standing next to a cop in the  appropriate uniform.  (who filmed, and why, and why she has a copy, I don't know)

They showed her some sort of repayment plan which has a big payment of 17000 B, followed by 2000 B a month, for 5 years.   With interest, the 100,000 B has grown into 170,000 b.

She has to show up to court in a day or so.

Is this normal?   I know a lot of thais defaulted on the cars they purchased under this scheme.

She claims if she doesn't pay it, she goes to jail.

Are they actually going after people who had the cars rep'oed?       (But kept the rebate?)

I can't imagine most thais have the money to repay?

If this is legit, is there any room to negotiate on the payment, and what is the method?

I like the lady, but have no qualms about walking away, and am very reluctant to front any money.

I'm not excluding the possibility this is a 'sick buffalo' scenario, but she knows anything like that would mean I'm gone.

i usually bring some cured meat products, country ham, pepperoni, dry salami, etc,  as well as other food stuff.  Never had a problem.    

They couldn't find clowns.   All  left the US to live in Thailand and post on TV.

Walmart has a lot of large bags of assortments like this.

I usually bring Hersheys of various types, yeah, most of the hersheys is sold everywhere, but there are usually some in the assortments not sold in Asia.....and it all vanishes, anyway.

The thai lady on the phone is somebody who works for the scammer, or a GF of the scammer.

This means there is a slight chance the scammer is one of  the West Africans in thailand.

I think the cops round them up, occasionally you see them pointing in pictures at some dark faces with a slumping thai lady or two in the group.

The victims are generally stupid, greedy, and/or gullible, but you kind of hate to see the cops miss  out on a chance to get rid of some trash.     I'm not sure who you would contact?

Usually 419eater or romancescam.com can help with scams like this, but not sure they have any thai language people.

100% scam.   

They do use average looking middle aged or older farang to rip off small amounts from usually middle aged or older asian ladies.

The pictures of the man will be  stolen.   Most of the time they will show up on google image search.

The scammer counts on the person being greedy, or lonely, and the thought that she can take the money and run doesn't bother them.   There is no money, except for the 'courier' fees she will pay.

The courier agency is not real.  The waybill is not real.

Get her to borrow the money from her cop BF.

:)