Thai accident scammer! But driver has a dash cam and tells him to get up and *#$! off!

[webfact]

Thai accident scammer! But driver has a dash cam and tells him to get up and *#$! off!

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Footage posted on Facebook from Hat Yai in southern Thailand showed the moment when a pedestrian collided with a car. 

 

The car had virtually come to a standstill but the pedestrian - complete with an already dressed head wound - jumped on the hood of the car and collapsed dramatically in a heap out of view. 

 

The driver gets out and has some words with the man who then walks off sheepishly. 

 

Fortunately the driver had a dash cam as this was clearly an accident scammer at work trying to get money from insurance. 

 

Picture: Daily News

 

It happened opposite the Kim Yong market on Petchkasem Road on Saturday and was posted by "Chu Phat" who appeared to come from Phattalung, said Daily News. 

 

The poster had some choice words for the scammer and Thai social media rowed in with further mass criticism for him. 

 

Thaivisa notes that videos featuring accident scammers and "top insurance fraud fails" from all around the world can be viewed on a platform like YouTube. 

 

Thailand is no exception and Thaivisa has featured several such stories over the last few years.

 

Daily News did not manage to get in touch with the driver but reported that no accident report was made to police.

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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[ezzra]

Crash for cash they call it... old scams perpetrated almost anywhere especially in the UK...

[transam]

2 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Crash for cash they call it... old scams perpetrated almost anywhere especially in the UK...

"Especially in the UK", would love a link for that....????

[webfact]

Man accused of car crash scam isn’t a scammer at all, say police

 

 

Police in Hat Yai have said that the man caught on dash cam apparently jumping on the hood of a car in an insurance fraud on Saturday afternoon is not a scammer at all.

 

He just has mental problems. 

 

The online page of the police in the southern Thai city named the man as Khamneung, 45, from Satun. 

 

They said that around 11 am in the morning they were called when he started causing trouble at the downtown bus station. 

 

They took him into custody to calm down and his relatives were contacted to pick him up. 

 

But at 2pm the relatives said that he had jumped out of their vehicle near the Hat Yai clocktower and run off. This area is near where the incident with the car followed shortly thereafter. 

 

Now police and the relatives are appealing for help and have issued a phone number to try and trace the man. 

 

Source: Manager Online

 

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[toofarnorth]

Looking at the pic. above I think he landed on his face.

[LawrenceN]

"They said that around 11 am in the morning they were called ..."

 

Gosh, thanks! That's new information. It never occurred to me before that 11 am might be in the morning.

[digger70]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Now police and the relatives are appealing for help and have issued a phone number to try and trace the man. 

Bit hard to find someone with a face obscured  like that. Not very Bryte are they.

[Trillian]

9 hours ago, transam said:

"Especially in the UK", would love a link for that....????

It's true, it has become quite common and a serious problem...the pedestrian version of this is all over Youtube:

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/crash-for-cash

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-40901111

https://www.rac.co.uk/insurance/car-insurance/guides/what-is-crash-for-cash

[JulesMad]

On 7/13/2020 at 10:46 AM, webfact said:

He just has mental problems. 

Ohh, it is OK then...

[trucking]

The Chinese have this cornered :

 

 

Edited July 14, 2020 by trucking

[Peterphuket]

14 minutes ago, trucking said:

The Chinese have this cornered :

 

 

Beautiful(l) The world is going crazy.

[The Deerhunter]

Happened to me in a little town just near the big resort at the north-east cape of Phuket Island.   At 10.30 PM on a Sunday night this guy simply turns in front of me and throws himself sideways off a motor bike in front of my rented Fortuna just a few hundred metres out of the gate of  a resort. The bike went under the car & he rolled away but a combination of the high front end on the Fortuna, my reaction times and the big fat radial tyres on the Toyota Fortuna meant I stopped dead and never touched even the mirror on the bike, let alone anything else on the bike and him neither.  I instructed my Thai wife to get out and check he  was alright.  She confirmed he was unharmed, told him he was stupid and instructed his "witnesses" to move him and the bike out of our way. We proceeded in strict 007 manner, "shaken but not stirred."

[PETERTHEEATER]

On 7/13/2020 at 4:46 AM, webfact said:

Now police and the relatives are appealing for help and have issued a phone number to try and trace the man. 

To assist in this endeavor we have pixelated the image of the man's face to ensure anonymity. Amazing Thailand!