NanLaew

From what I understand, you and many others, adhere to the immigration rules regarding proof of income without recourse to an agent. So, what exactly are YOU complaining about?

I initiated a transfer from my balance in my Wise account to my Bangkok bank account yesterday afternoon, local time. It said 'by Tuesday'. Around 8:45 AM this morning, Wise emailed to say they had just sent the money and I should see it around 14:00, local time. This is from my Wise account to my Bangkok bank account registered with Wise that has previously taken a few seconds. My Bangkok bank account is compliant with the bank's updated, registered phone number policy. Not sure why Wise now appears to have a minimum 8-hour transfer time, and it appears it waits more than 8 hours from initialising on their app to actually doing the transfer. I don't send great amounts of money, usually about £1000 two or three times a month.

And your name is Mary, and this is the Pub. Does your boyfriend know you are here? By yourself?

Au contraire, mon vieux. You do realize that by leaving that receipt lying about for her to discover, you handily avoided being suckered by a (beautiful and horny) bunny boiler.

Very common, I believe. Very much live for the now. Regardless of social strata, if you say to a local, "You can have 100 baht today, but if you wait till tomorrow, you can have 1000 baht," they will take the 100 baht today. ...and ask you for the 1000 baht tomorrow.

The same way as she probably "owns" a car from a legal perspective and the finance company just has a "security" interest. Just see how far this legal ownership gets her when she misses a couple of mortgage or car note payments. This is about the time they charmingly hit up a witness, love-struck foreigner, claiming inordinately high wages for the job they do. Those from a lower-order demographic are pretty much stuck with the sick buffalo routine.

Up until about 10 days ago, regardless of time of day, my Wise transfers to Bangkok bank would be flagged as "should arrive immediately" and they did Now, despite initially displaying as "should arrive immediately", once the transfer is configured and ready to execute, it's either "within 8 hours" or "next day". This former when setting up early in the UK working day, the latter when setting up later in the working day.

Oh, that's good. That's very good.

Maybe his "character" is around ten inches and he can breath through his ears?

By the same token, when he gets fed up of her nonsense (and he will), all he needs to do is stop the stipend and she'll vanish, along with all those sweet memories. Unless of course he's cultivated a bunny boiler, then it's change locks, phone number, sell the car and move to Idaho time.

What's tranglo and where does it get in this mix? A quick Google suggests it's for Thai domestic transactions. So, is it acting as the processor for Thai banks that do not have a foreign corresponding bank? Or what?

Wise transfers to Bangkok bank were similarly quick the last time I did a transfer almost two weeks ago. It said "in seconds" and that's how long it took, as usual. Any transaction now is either "within 8 hours" or "next day", depending on what time of day it's being set up.

Good point sir. My banking and phone SIM stuff is all compliant from last year but I wonder if my wife's up to speed with this?

As long as the fear of being charged with defamation exists, and simple things such as naming the mall where this raid took place is avoided, the corruption and theft of intellectual property that the authorities claim to be fighting will spread, like the social cancer it is.

A regular SWIFT transfer from the UK to my wife's account with Bangkok bank used to take around 18 hours. The last couple have taken between 3 and 5 days to post. Wise transfers from the UK to my Bangkok bank account would typically take a few seconds, as their app says it will when configuring the transaction. However, over the past week and depending on what time of day I configure the transaction, the app says either 8 hours or by the following day. Something appears to have gummed up the works, both Wise and SWIFT with Bangkok bank.

Oops.... looks like we have a new student in the geopolitical classroom.

So it wasn't malware after all.

And tastes even less.

That would be an admission that it exists.

Life's too short for all that faff (and penny-pinching).

We used to do that. Then I bought the wife an electric can opener and along with the microwave and toaster, so we've reverted to the older, unhealthy but faster ways to beans on toast. The Big C 60 baht/tin deal is nationwide, so fill yer boots.

He ended up marrying his barfine and the rest, as they say, is history.

So she has a pretend boyfriend in Germany AND a pretend customer gurning about ethics on an internet forum. Winning.

What do you suggest is not a cheap and disgusting recompense for such services?

Remember Clinton? He left a deposit and almost lost his job.