Tony81

It is a bit strange to me. He uses the ATM machine on Monday 9th August at 16.38 local time. (see picture right top corner). Then he walks back to the hotel and calls his bank. Time in Norway is 5 hours earlier. Say 12.00 local time. That means within almost 30 mnts THB 200 000 has been taken from his account????? If I use an ATM Machine, I can only get THB. 20 000 out of it (max). Then 10 days later he reports it to the police. I think for insurance reasons.

it took a while for me to get used to the fact that the atm machines gave me the moeny before giving the card back. I left one card behind once and when i arrived first i walked away only to hear the beeping on several occasion.

My mate back home had a similar expierence, he laughs at how stupid he was now. he went for a meal with his g/f but forgot cash so he left the restaurant and rushed to the nearest atm, he entered his pin and got no cash twice, then a nice lady said she had the same problem and she had to enter her pin a couple of times so he tried again, (this is where he laughs at how stupid he was) he called the women up to look at him entering the pin and told her "look i am putting in the correct pin and no cash", he gave up and left to go back to the restaurant, they got about 500 euro i think.

I used to work in bank and when a card was skimmed they would take 500 just before midnight and 500 just after to beat the daily limit. getting 1000 euro. before i left they had got smarter. they would take out 500 and lodge a forged cheque for the same amount. the person wouldn't notice their balance dropping (only their available balance would drop, and most people don't understand what that is). they could do this for at least 5 days before the first cheque bounced getting 2500 euro instead of 1000.

If this scam is only coming to Phuket now, its done well to avoid it for at least the last 10 years.

It will be on 24th October 2009.

Tony