Pattaya: Warning about fraudster on the loose preying on shops

[webfact]

Pattaya: Warning about fraudster on the loose preying on shops

 

Picture: Pattaya Watchdog

 

Pattaya Watchdog posted a warning from shopkeepers about a foreign man who was tricking them. 

 

He was filmed in what looked like a stationers where he bought a cheap item with a 1000 baht note. He was given change of more than 900 baht.

 

He then went back to the store shortly after to say that he had found the item much cheaper elsewhere and wanted his 1000 baht back. 

 

The request was made in a flurry of aggressive accusations causing the shopkeeper to become disorientated, angry and confused leading them to give the man his money back but forget they had already given him his change. 

 

When the mistake was realised he was followed and seen hurriedly getting into a car. This appeared to be a white Toyota Vios (there was a spelling mistake in the story on Facebook). 

 

A trader nearby said they also fell victim to a similar scam. 

 

Posters on the story spoke of also being victims while others criticized the site for blurring the face of the man they wanted to catch. 

 

Many referred to the man as a "khaek" a common and sometimes considered derogatory term for people from the Indian sub-continent, notes Thaivisa. 

 

Source: Pattaya Watchdog

 

 

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[keith101]

7 minutes ago, webfact said:

Posters on the story spoke of also being victims while others criticized the site for blurring the face of the man they wanted to catch. 

This happens so often you have to wonder do they really want to catch them or not ?

[worgeordie]

Without a calculator to hand ,could easily happen.????

getting money back from a retailer never heard of

that happen before.

regards worgeordie

[RichardColeman]

 

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

He then went back to the store shortly after to say that he had found the item much cheaper elsewhere and wanted his 1000 baht back.

I'd have told him to hod off !

[petermik]

7 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Without a calculator to hand ,could easily happen.????

getting money back from a retailer never heard of

that happen before.

regards worgeordie

hear hear....a thai shop returning money nah I don,t believe it also....must be "fake news".......

[ezzra]

A petty criminal, a hustler, and for the few thousand baht he's going to make will not be worth the troubles he will be in once he get caught...

[lupin]

so... warn the public of some anonymous person so no-one at all knows who it is, because you slap a cartoon mask over the face.

[bbi1]

Is the word "khaek" really considered derogatory? Thai people use it all the time to call Indians and Arabs as khaek. There's even a Wat Khaek in Silom in BKK which is a famous temple that Thai people go to.

 

Do Thai people refer to those Thai-Indians (Sihks) as "Khaek" too? Just like they call white people "Farang"

Edited December 6, 2019 by bbi1

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

angry and confused leading them to give the man his money back but forget they had already given him his change.

Jinga?

[jacko45k]

5 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

 

I'd have told him to hod off !

Point to the 'no refunds' sign.......

And keep another useful sign behind it, to be revealed with a smile!

[Destiny1990]

That’s one of these big spending Indians ?

[Moti24]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

The request was made in a flurry of aggressive accusations causing the shopkeeper to become disorientated, angry and confused leading them to give the man his money back but forget they had already given him his change. 

 

A trader nearby said they also fell victim to a similar scam. 

It appears that these 2 traders are as thick as 2 short planks.  If they catch the foreigner, they should lock-up all 3 of them.

[ratcatcher]

There are also a large number of fraudsters praying in temples.

[sunnyboy2018]

5 hours ago, bbi1 said:

Is the word "khaek" really considered derogatory? Thai people use it all the time to call Indians and Arabs as khaek. There's even a Wat Khaek in Silom in BKK which is a famous temple that Thai people go to.

 

Do Thai people refer to those Thai-Indians (Sihks) as "Khaek" too? Just like they call white people "Farang"

Its no more offensive than w*g or n***er. Incidentally the Erwan bombers were described as Khaek Kao....white w*gs meaning Arabs! Its because the Thais do not perceive such terms as racist that white foreigners dont understand that f*rang really is a racist slur.

[BobinBKK]

A Thai shop keeper was tricked and cheated by a foreigner? And it's a crime?? But it's not a crime when a foreigner is tricked and cheated??? I just love watching things self destruct ????????????

[balo]

I don't understand , do they want to catch him or not?  Let's see his face! Or maybe he is protected by the police mafia.  

[PatOngo]

16 hours ago, bbi1 said:

Is the word "khaek" really considered derogatory? Thai people use it all the time to call Indians and Arabs as khaek. There's even a Wat Khaek in Silom in BKK which is a famous temple that Thai people go to.

 

Do Thai people refer to those Thai-Indians (Sihks) as "Khaek" too? Just like they call white people "Farang"

There are only four races known here, khaeks, jaeks, farang and Khon Thai!

[mikebell]

No Thai trader has given money back to a customer EVER.

[Guest]

Are we really to believe a Thai shop owner ... or ANY shop owner in this world ... cares if "...found the item much cheaper elsewhere"  The universal answer to that is ... roughly speaking, "And your point is? Don't let the door hit you in the a$$"

 

Part two:  So, to just get this POS out of their shop, they agree to refund his money.  They look at a 50 Baht item, and hand over 1,000 Baht?  Riiiiiiight.  Good luck with that.

 

[MeePeeMai]

On 12/7/2019 at 8:09 AM, bbi1 said:

What about negro for anyone who's black? Also known as chocolate man.

 

Black is beautiful (but white is preferred).

[POMRAKSIAM]

I  have a buddy get taken by a what he said was a "Roma" or "Gypsy" who asked to see what a 1000  baht looked like and through fast hands and faster (loud) mouth asking to see all different money, lost the 1000 baht! My buddy thought if he was right there at arms length watching close wouldn't be a problem. 

[Guest]

15 minutes ago, POMRAKSIAM said:

I  have a buddy get taken by a what he said was a "Roma" or "Gypsy" who asked to see what a 1000  baht looked like and through fast hands and faster (loud) mouth asking to see all different money, lost the 1000 baht! My buddy thought if he was right there at arms length watching close wouldn't be a problem. 

What can we say?  Not the sharpest knife in the drawer!

[Just Weird]

On 12/6/2019 at 9:35 PM, BobinBKK said:

A Thai shop keeper was tricked and cheated by a foreigner? And it's a crime?? But it's not a crime when a foreigner is tricked and cheated??? I just love watching things self destruct ????????????

"But it's not a crime when a foreigner is tricked and cheated???"

Who suggested that it wasn't?  

[Ventenio]

this trick is decades and decades old.....

[fhickson]

usually if you give the money back its for the price of the item???

[Rimmer]

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