"Believe me - I'm a doctor!" - Hunt on for fraudster who racked up 50K hotel bill

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"Believe me  - I'm a doctor!" - Hunt on for fraudster who racked up 50K hotel bill 

 

Thai caption: Hunt for (fraudster) "Dr Kamalor"

 

Police in Chiang Mai are hunting for a 49 year old fraudster who lived the "Life of Riley" at a downtown hotel racking up a near 50,000 baht bill before leaving without paying. 

 

Chayarop Sangchuay told staff that he was a doctor doing research on behalf of the interior ministry. 

 

He said he would pay on checkout - but he left stuff in his room and no one has been able to get hold of him since. 

 

Sources said "Dr Kamalor" (a name given him in the Thai press that indicates fraudulent activity) was just a conman. 

 

Phrae, 35, the hotel manageress finally went to the police to tell them that this was the third time that Mr Chayarop had stayed at her hotel. The other two times he had booked online, this time he walked in on September 21st. 

 

Throughout his stay until October 12th he had been living it up eating and drinking. Friends who are members of comic troupes in the city came with him to the hotel - as well as plenty of "women friends". 

 

When the time came to checkout staff gave him a bill under the name of "Mister" but he asked them to change it to "Doctor" and said he would settle everything by bank transfer. 

 

Efforts to track him down failed and the 48,225 baht bill went unpaid. In his room staff found a case and a few other small items. 

 

Contact with his friends yielded nothing. 

 

The manageress said a lot of money was involved and they had provided great service to the customer. She admitted that the hotel had been remiss in its procedures. 

 

A source who is a friend of the man told Sanook that he is known as "Lek" - he is not a doctor, not a researcher and not a civil servant. 

 

He is a boastful man who is a serial fraudster who has done countless cons including renting cars then pawning them. 

 

He would commit crimes then go into hiding until cases blew over. 

 

Source: Sanook

 

 

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[petermik]

Well done that man......

[bdenner]

Here we go! The minister for 'BS' statistics is now going to get a grip on this and we Farang are about to be hit with "Hotel Runner Insurance", oh, throw in Restaurant/Bar check bin dodging as well!

 

(I know this guy was not Farang)

[natway09]

Hotel very remiss, No credit card, no room key

[sammieuk1]

Mr Mister from the comic troupe posing as Dr Mister the con man now known as a comic genius ????

[klauskunkel]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

he was a doctor doing research on behalf of the interior ministry. 

he had been living it up eating and drinking. Friends who are members of comic troupes in the city came with him to the hotel - as well as plenty of "women friends".

research can be so demanding

[Almer]

3 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

research can be so demanding

By the sound of it he was researching female anatomy 

[soalbundy]

So cases here just 'blow over', seems to me the police are at fault here if he is a known serial conman but has never been caught.

[RichardColeman]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Hunt on for fraudster who racked up 50K hotel bill

Hunt for daft staff, fastest on record

[Beggar]

I never understood why people install security cameras that have such a bad quality that you don't see much on them. 

[thequietman]

5 hours ago, bdenner said:

(I know this guy was not Farang)

Are you sure ................. ?????? ????

[Mavideol]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

She admitted that the hotel had been remiss in its procedures. 

and didn't asks for down payment/security deposit/ID/ CC printed slip... nothing, just let him go because he claimed to be doing research on behalf of the interior minister but no recommendation letter or anything to support his claim and she's the hotel manager

[ChipButty]

They gave him a really good service it seems like he serviced you 

[CNXexpat]

7 hours ago, petermik said:

Well done that man......

Why? I guess you have no business or like to be cheated. 

[ylmiri]

The hotel bought insurance so they no worried he got away.

Though the hotel doesn't get full amount from insurance but still it covers the loss if they mark up when submitting the claim.

[kevin612]

Oh yea, he is a doctor in his dream.

[asean]

it should come out of the hotel manager's pay. simple.

[hotchilli]

20 hours ago, webfact said:

The manageress said a lot of money was involved and they had provided great service to the customer.

Along with the plenty of "women friends" no doubt.