Video: Thais tricked by "farang" roadside con man

 

Image: Thai Rath

 

A video showed a Thai driver being conned of 100 baht by a foreign man with a tall tale.

 

A man on a motorcycle bangs on the window of a car parked by the side of the road and spins a tale about having the seat on his bike prised open and losing money. 

 

He mumbles something in Thai about going to the Turkish Embassy.

 

He asked for 60 baht and the driver, feeling sorry for him, opens his wallet to give him 100 baht, half the money he has.

 

The foreigner grabs the cash and races off into the distance.

 

The driver grumbles that he didn't even say thank you, probably realizing by now that he has been conned.

 

Netizens commenting online said that the same guy with the same story was doing this all the time. 

 

He was preying on the good nature - and gullibility - of the Thai public. 

 

He looks in forlornly and if the victim doesn't open the window, he bangs on it to tell his tale, they said. 

 

The video was posted on Facebook by "Orchun Maurer" and reported by Thai Rath.

 

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

 

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This massive scam could shake the tourist industry and cause major repercussions in the police department.

I hope the Thai man recovers from the loss of all that money.
 

This has been news before, obviously not all heard , hard to believe since their all got their faces stuck in Face Book or Line

I never read : " Farangs tricked by "Thai" TukTuk con men

Yeah, Thanks for that mate. Your low life behaviour now has another million or so Thais thinking that all farang are scum like you, and all for the sake of a lousy 100 baht. Go home you cheap turd.

National security is at stake here, a job for the RTP rapid response unit if ever there was one!

Didn’t we have an almost exact story like this a few months back? Is it the same guy?

can we please have some NEW NEWS  this is OLD OLD NEWS quiet day was it ??

How long should this 'farang' spend in prison? I'm thinking 5 years at least. No chance at parole. 

2 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

How long should this 'farang' spend in prison? I'm thinking 5 years at least. No chance at parole. 

He should be staked on an anthill,sent to the Bangkok Hilton,marry a ladyboy,deported for three life times.....

 

Gawd,,,,where's me Leo...Hey Porn...what 'appened to the beer?"

He's not farang. Turks are not farang. He's kaek. Kaek kao to be more specific.

 

 

51 minutes ago, RotMahKid said:

I never read : " Farangs tricked by "Thai" TukTuk con men

Really, you must live under a rock, then, it's common knowledge and frequently reported.

57 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

This massive scam could shake the tourist industry and cause major repercussions in the police department.

I hope the Thai man recovers from the loss of all that money.
 

Wow, talk about completely (deliberately?) missing the point!

2 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

Wow talk about completely (deliberately?) missing the point!

And your point is what?

Oh its those wicked evil farangs again.  I hope these victims can financially recover.

 

Meanwhile, back in the real world..............

12 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

Really, you must live under a rock, then, it's common knowledge and frequently reported.

You just don't do sarcasm and irony do you? That's just weird in this day and age.

1 hour ago, ratcatcher said:

And your point is what?

My point was your missing the point, see, you did it again.

Just now, Just Weird said:

My point was your missing the point.

Thank you. What point did I miss?

57 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

You just don't do sarcasm and irony do you? That's just weird in this day and age.

The poster that I responded to certainly doesn't.

2 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

Thank you. What point did I miss?

Geez, you're good, you did it again.  Try reading post #17 again but here's a clue anyway, "My point was your missing the point...".

1 hour ago, Just Weird said:

Wow, talk about completely (deliberately?) missing the point!

I think you completely missed the sarcasm 555

19 minutes ago, DavisH said:

I think you completely missed the sarcasm 555

No, I didn't, hence the "(deliberately)" part but I'm not entirely sure that he was being sarcastic.

22 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

Geez, you're good, you did it again.  Try reading post #17 again but here's a clue anyway, "My point was your missing the point...".

  2 hours ago, RotMahKid said:

'I never read : " Farangs tricked by "Thai" TukTuk con men"

Irony?

 

6 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

  2 hours ago, RotMahKid said:

'I never read : " Farangs tricked by "Thai" TukTuk con men"

Irony?

Ironically, that is not post #17.

24 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

Ironically, that is not post #17.

 

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true?

 

 

 

 

3 hours ago, PatOngo said:

National security is at stake here, a job for the RTP rapid response unit if ever there was one!

'RTP rapid response unit' Isn't that an oxymoron?

This prat knocked on my window near Siam Paragon peddling this story in broken Thai last year. I told him I don’t speak Thai at which point he tried to tell me the story in English, to which I “politely” told him to leave the area before certain limbs would strike him causing possible injury to him.

 

He tried to go to another car further up but sped off when a cop came out of the police box.

3 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

And your point is what?

Badly missed. 

An opportunity for making merit...so money not wasted.

   BTW...I often give money to beggars on the Soi.....about 5% say "thank you" or a bow of the head.

and tomorrows headline:

"Honest Farang Tourist returns 100,000 baht and iphone to distraught Thai student in wheelchair"

 

- uhm, wait, no somehow that doesn't work...