Foreign man steals phone at Pattaya cafe

5 hours ago, James105 said:

Foreigners from western countries stealing from Thai's working somewhere like a coffee shop is the lowest of the low. It will take that employee anything from 10-30 days to earn enough money to replace the phone depending on the model.

It will take longer than that to accrue the money for an I phone by working in a coffee shop whatever the model Lesson learnt hopefully

Pattaya attracting many scumbags from all over the world. Unfortunately nothing new here.

3 hours ago, novacova said:

Good grief, what a slow minded crook stealing something and having a delayed realization that his every move is being videotaped from the time he steps out his door.

lol not that slow minded, I reckon he's a professional , stealing to order note how he skillfully avoids looking directly at the camera. he's good, very good , and as three days have passed I reckon he's got away with it Probably had a few more away since then

Attention f-rang phone thief!

Yeah YOU.

We've got your number.

The netizens are on your case.

You can ring but you can't hide.

14 hours ago, SiSePuede419 said:

Old chap clearly forgot to take someone else's phone.

Old shop clearly didn't forget to take someone else's phone.

10 hours ago, Srikcir said:

secure the return of the device

Return to whom?

The cafe, very obviously.

1 hour ago, Bday Prang said:

assuming it had some sort of lock activated?

By default, all modern phones feature hardware-level locking, meaning a factory reset won't make the device functional again without the owner’s password.

I also can't imagine anyone leaving access to their banking or crypto apps without password protection.

The real weak point here is the SIM card itself. It can be moved to another phone in an attempt to recover access to bank accounts. That’s why it’s highly recommended to set a SIM PIN—which, unfortunately, is disabled by default with Thai mobile operators.