Swede Left Broke After Romance in Chiang Mai

a fool and his money are easily parted

I wonder will he learn from this late lesson in life

There is more than one pigeon in this story!

A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush....

Stick to smurfs much cheaper

4 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

Swede Left Broke After Romance in Chiang Mai

Oh well, he's not the first Swede to lose his shirt.

Back to Sweeden for you

47 minutes ago, petermik said:

A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush....

Ya well a hand in the bush isn't worth 2 birds.

Not enough Details to form an accurate conclusion.

Was the women gifted, earned, loaned or stole the money in question.

If your in a relationship with her sometime I'm sure you took photo of her ID card. Notify the Police provide all the specifics, amount, how you believe it was obtained and wait a few days before following up.

I have already told my partner how it works if my money declines. Who it supports will be me first planning long term survival, helping her on Needed items, family with needed items, etc.

The problem I see is we visit Thailand, sometimes without close friends or people who can provide good advice, ask the prying financial questions if they see potential disaster in the works.

Hope it all works out and he can recover financially quickly.

I always recommend that guys coming here for the first time read several of the well written books about the way some women are very skillful at extracting money from their tricks.

It takes good survival instincts to survive and to thrive in the world these days, some people have it and some people don't.

Unfortunately a lot of guys come here in an incredibly vulnerable emotional state due to the extreme situations they face back in their home countries, with regard to women and the astonishing loss of femininity back in the West, and the challenges in engaging in a healthy relationship back there. It allows some women here to prey on them, and some of these women are very well coached. A man has to take his time here and get to know a gal, and a man has to be able to say an emphatic NO, to financial demands.

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by spidermike007

This goes back to the he was not the first to get fleeced or will be the last

Its a never ending story in Thailand

Plenty more like him around 😱

Sveinung is that you? C'mon man, pick up your game. Call me if you need cake 🤣

1 hour ago, J Branche said:

Not enough Details to form an accurate conclusion.

Was the women gifted, earned, loaned or stole the money in question.

If your in a relationship with her sometime I'm sure you took photo of her ID card. Notify the Police provide all the specifics, amount, how you believe it was obtained and wait a few days before following up.

I have already told my partner how it works if my money declines. Who it supports will be me first planning long term survival, helping her on Needed items, family with needed items, etc.

The problem I see is we visit Thailand, sometimes without close friends or people who can provide good advice, ask the prying financial questions if they see potential disaster in the works.

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Hope it all works out and he can recover financially quickly.

Who takes photos of ID cards of people they date? This is weird behaviour

A familiar tome?

Foreigner left broke after buying a bar in Phuket?

It takes two to tango....#gofundme

One born every minute, and every village has got one.

Obviously, in his village, they take it in turns to be the idiot.

A familiar story here, sad to say. Very easy to innocently fall for friendly charm in Thailand. Happened to me in the financial crash of 1997/1998. Badly scammed by my Thai business partners. Lesson learned is never part with more money than you can afford to lose.

8 hours ago, Nemises said:

Sir, that is not how you get your "bird" back.

7 hours ago, smedly said:

a fool and his money are easily parted

I wonder will he learn from this late lesson in life

I reckon that when he met his Karioke Queen he replaced his Sweed-ish brain and ended up with a turnip brain. If you were getting skun by a klever karioke girl wouldn't you at least keep some money back for a taxi to the airport and plane ticket home ?? Sounds like she had him by the short and curlies.

I can never understand why people from Sweden leave Sweden to come to Thailand.

It just makes no sense to me.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by GammaGlobulin

7 hours ago, smedly said:

a fool and his money are easily parted

I wonder will he learn from this late lesson in life

LoL I resent that remark 40 is mid life mode late in years is 65 + and yes we still have time to learn from our mistakes

2 hours ago, ryandb said:

Who takes photos of ID cards of people they date? This is weird behaviour

Why would you Not be interested in seeing a longer term partners ID card.

Question is what are You hiding? Are you attempting to deceive someone?

Shows a photo, confirms age and has ID Number that is not helpful to anyone but Police, Government, offices of high authority. These are the only ones that see the Background Data when ID Card or Number is scanned.

2 hours ago, ryandb said:

Who takes photos of ID cards of people they date? This is weird behaviour

Every hotel or guesthouse you take them in.

And seeing them gives you a certain safety.

I always wondered about foreigners that don't actually know their girlfriends name. I can certainly recall all my Thai LTRs real names.

4 hours ago, J Branche said:

The problem I see is we visit Thailand, sometimes without close friends or people who can provide good advice, ask the prying financial questions if they see potential disaster in the works.

I've not met one guy that appreciated you outing his scamming gf.

1 hour ago, ryandb said:

Who takes photos of ID cards of people they date? This is weird behaviour

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I always recommend that guys coming here for the first time read several of the well written books about the way some women are very skillful at extracting money from their tricks.

It takes good survival instincts to survive and to thrive in the world these days, some people have it and some people don't.

Unfortunately a lot of guys come here in an incredibly vulnerable emotional state due to the extreme situations they face back in their home countries, with regard to women and the astonishing loss of femininity back in the West, and the challenges in engaging in a healthy relationship back there. It allows some women here to prey on them, and some of these women are very well coached. A man has to take his time here and get to know a gal, and a man has to be able to say an emphatic NO, to financial demands.

Your comment that newcomers to Thailand should read the books about other's experiences and the traps they fell into didn't work for my old mate Neilo whom we invited him on his first trip,..before we left we warned him about getting to involved with the bargirls and not fallinh in love but and I gave him the books "no money no honey " and a fool returns by Neil Huthison which are full of hard luck stories

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I always recommend that guys coming here for the first time read several of the well written books about the way some women are very skillful at extracting money from their tricks.

It takes good survival instincts to survive and to thrive in the world these days, some people have it and some people don't.

Unfortunately a lot of guys come here in an incredibly vulnerable emotional state due to the extreme situations they face back in their home countries, with regard to women and the astonishing loss of femininity back in the West, and the challenges in engaging in a healthy relationship back there. It allows some women here to prey on them, and some of these women are very well coached. A man has to take his time here and get to know a gal, and a man has to be able to say an emphatic NO, to financial demands.

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I always recommend that guys coming here for the first time read several of the well written books about the way some women are very skillful at extracting money from their tricks.

It takes good survival instincts to survive and to thrive in the world these days, some people have it and some people don't.

Unfortunately a lot of guys come here in an incredibly vulnerable emotional state due to the extreme situations they face back in their home countries, with regard to women and the astonishing loss of femininity back in the West, and the challenges in engaging in a healthy relationship back there. It allows some women here to prey on them, and some of these women are very well coached. A man has to take his time here and get to know a gal, and a man has to be able to say an emphatic NO, to financial demands.

Reading the books you refer to about the pitfalls in Thailand for a first timer didn't do my mate Neilo much good. Before we went I gave him a couple of books by Neil Hutchison that are full of hard luck stories but unfortuneately they didn't do him much good because he thought after 3 marriages and divorces in Australia he was an expert with women. We arrived at the Nana Hotel in BKK at 9.30 pm and checked in and agreed to meet at the Golden bar below. When I got there 20 minutes later he was fully occupied and in love with a bar girl who was all over him like a rash.She became girlfriend no.1 . From there we went to Udon Thani for a few days and the first bar we went to Neilo was in love again after 15 minutes so she became no 2 . From there we went to Pattaya and the first night he fell in love with no.3. He did the usual thing and bought them all gold and new phones etc. After we got home he was sending them all money for a while but eventually settled on one that he ended up marrying and broke .. but that's another story.

5 hours ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

"They later learned that he had allegedly been deceived by the woman, who reportedly took a significant amount of his money before disappearing."

I'm sure i have heard of this happening before??😉

Surely never in Thailand

Perish the thought - you will be telling me next that the girls are lying when they call me a handsome man!

2 minutes ago, wavodavo said:

Your comment that newcomers to Thailand should read the books about other's experiences and the traps they fell into didn't work for my old mate Neilo whom we invited him on his first trip,..before we left we warned him about getting to involved with the bargirls and not fallinh in love but and I gave him the books "no money no honey " and a fool returns by Neil Huthison which are full of hard luck stories

Reading the books you refer to about the pitfalls in Thailand for a first timer didn't do my mate Neilo much good. Before we went I gave him a couple of books by Neil Hutchison that are full of hard luck stories but unfortuneately they didn't do him much good because he thought after 3 marriages and divorces in Australia he was an expert with women. We arrived at the Nana Hotel in BKK at 9.30 pm and checked in and agreed to meet at the Golden bar below. When I got there 20 minutes later he was fully occupied and in love with a bar girl who was all over him like a rash.She became girlfriend no.1 . From there we went to Udon Thani for a few days and the first bar we went to Neilo was in love again after 15 minutes so she became no 2 . From there we went to Pattaya and the first night he fell in love with no.3. He did the usual thing and bought them all gold and new phones etc. After we got home he was sending them all money for a while but eventually settled on one that he ended up marrying and broke .. but that's another story.

He sounds like the absolute definition of a desperado. So lonely and so vulnerable that he's a perfect victim for clever gals, who are predatory in nature, and have been very well coached.

I wonder if he even learned anything from it all?

Imagine the opposite: if it had been a foreigner who had defrauded a Thai woman into a romantic relationship.
It would have been a different story, with the police searching for the foreigner to make him return the woman's money.

The world turned upside down...🤦‍♂️

Tony