Koh Samui: Eight foreigners ripped off by Thai woman over visas/work permit go to the police

[webfact]

Koh Samui: Eight foreigners ripped off by Thai woman over visas/work permit go to the police

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Eight foreigners went to the Bo Phut police in Bo Phut, Koh Samui on Saturday to ask for action against a Thai businesswoman who they say has  ripped them off regarding visa and work permit extensions and company registrations and other company matters. 

 

Named only by a fictitious name of "Joy" the woman is the owner of an accounts office that said they could help foreigners with their paperwork for a fee. 

 

They had been trying to extend Non-B visas and doing the other paperwork with some placing deposits in the 10,000 baht range and others laying down 100,000 baht or more. 

 

Losses total a million baht.

 

After six months of trying to contact Joy they feared they had been conned out of their money as contact could only be made through a LINE application. She kept promising that their applications were in progress. 

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

They also feared problems with immigration as a result, reported 77kaoded.

 

On Saturday a representative spoke for them in meeting Lt-Col Thanongsak Aksornsom who had been handed the case from station chief Pol Col Yuthana Sirisombat. 

 

Thanongsak said that this group was not the first to claim they had suffered. A summons had already been issued for Joy to which she had not responded,

 

If she does not respond to a second summons they will consider going to the court for a warrant for her arrest.

 

Police are interviewing each individual to ascertain their precise grievance and urged others who may have been affected in the case to come forward. 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

 

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[ThreeEyedRaven]

1 minute ago, webfact said:

They also feared problems with immigration as a result,

And that is far worse than being ripped off for your money. I have seen before in Pattaya when something similar happened and the cops nicked the foreigners involved for overstay, fined and deported them, which they saw as easier than going after the ripoff merchant involved.

[Dmaxdan]

15 minutes ago, webfact said:

If she does not respond to a second summons they will consider going to the court for a warrant for her arrest.

And the key word in that sentence is "consider"

[Dagfinnur Traustason]

54 minutes ago, webfact said:

It is now totally clear that they do no longer require any dress code in niether police stations nor immigration offices.

 

As I look at the picture, it makes me think that the man might come directly from his ballet class.

[H1w4yR1da]

Going to a government office in a singlet just shows amazing levels of ignorance of Thai culture. He should've been turned away.

[TomnearCentral]

Thai culture is one thing, but on the other hand I would also assume that he would not even turn up like that at a government office in his home country! I simply to do not understand these kind of people.......

[khunPer]

I'm always suspicious when people choose to use kind-of-agent instead of a proper source for their paperwork, like a lawyer for company registration, and the accountant or lawyer in the company where one is employed to extend a work permit and help with permission to stay based on work...

[klauskunkel]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

After six months of trying to contact Joy they feared they had been conned out of their money

You don't say... 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

If she does not respond to a second summons they will consider going to the court for a warrant for her arrest.

Shouldn't there be a "mulling stage" before it becomes a consideration? (I really should not tell them how to not do their "work")...

[fruitman]

3 hours ago, khunPer said:

I'm always suspicious when people choose to use kind-of-agent instead of a proper source for their paperwork, like a lawyer for company registration, and the accountant or lawyer in the company where one is employed to extend a work permit and help with permission to stay based on work...

Speaking for myself i have never ever heard anything good about Thai lawyers.

[SuwadeeS]

Just another scam of foreigners

[PETERTHEEATER]

Looking at the photograph in the OP I find it odd that only two of the crowd are wearing khaki masks over their eyes. See no evil?

[thaisabai]

looking at the second picture, the farang with red trousers and sleeveless shirt and tattoos all over - you should be ashamed to present yourself to police like this !

 

thaisabai 

[richard_smith237]

Just now, thaisabai said:

looking at the second picture, the farang with red trousers and sleeveless shirt and tattoos all over - you should be ashamed to present yourself to police like this !

 

thaisabai 

 

Sanctimonious much ? you’d have him a suit ?? - OK hyperbolae...

 

You are not one of these who suggest Cargo Shorts and T-shirt are disrespectful ‘of the establishment’ are you ?

He has to wear at least Trousers, and a collared Polo Shirt to pay respect and deference to the establishment ?

 

 

[mberbae]

Sending money simply because of  Line App is insane.

No one asked for an actual address ? No one went to see

Joy ?  And, Judging from their dress code, I can deduct their IQ

must be quite low.

[thaisabai]

4 hours ago, H1w4yR1da said:

Going to a government office in a singlet just shows amazing levels of ignorance of Thai culture. He should've been turned away.

totally agree

thaisabai

[ChipButty]

These scams are all over Thailand

[firestar]

49 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Sanctimonious much ? you’d have him a suit ?? - OK hyperbolae...

 

You are not one of these who suggest Cargo Shorts and T-shirt are disrespectful ‘of the establishment’ are you ?

He has to wear at least Trousers, and a collared Polo Shirt to pay respect and deference to the establishment ?

 

 

 

 

The guy owns the gym that is less than 100 meters from the police station, he went straight from work.

 

He is a super nice guy who dresses with buttoned up shirts when he goes out, I think it because it was actually the police who asked him to come in.

 

But people love to judge and show their pettiness and thinly veiled hatred behind their little keyboards

 

 

[richard_smith237]

46 minutes ago, thaisabai said:

you seem to be one of those farangs that have no respect for anything.

get yyour act together, you don't belong here. stay wherever you come from.

 

thaisabai

 

You are making decisions about whether or not ‘other people you don’t know’ belong here and should go back to where they come from ???? Really ????  what a joke.

 

And, you are making those decisions, either towards myself based my comments ridiculing the anal nature of your posts or  towards the subject of the Op because he has tattoo’s and wore a vest in a police station !!!!! 

 

Are you one of these foreigners who’ve become more Thai and than the Thai’s and become offended at every minor slight a foreigner makes even when Thai’s are not really that bothered ?

 

 

Your contribution to this thread is to aim criticism at a foreigner who’s been ripped off, not at all about the fact that he was cheated !!! 

 

The halfwits who have gone too native are hilarious. They don’t even recognise it in themselves. 

 

 

 

 

[scorecard]

5 hours ago, H1w4yR1da said:

Going to a government office in a singlet just shows amazing levels of ignorance of Thai culture. He should've been turned away.

 Truth is that most folks wouldn't go to report problems at a police station in any country dressed like this dude. 

[richard_smith237]

2 minutes ago, scorecard said:

 Truth is that most folks wouldn't go to report problems at a police station in any country dressed like this dude. 

 

Its already been explained that he was called in and went straight after work (he has a gym 100m away from the police station).... 

 

But... people shouldn’t let real life circumstances get in the way of an opportunity to pile some sanctimonious hate on someone they don’t know !!!!!!!! 

 

Geezzz.... some people - complete and total sanctimonious self righteous co<kowombles... 

 

 

 

[Cranky]

Questions:  Is it a crime in Thailand to scam foreigners?  Has any Thai ever been prosecuted for fraud where the victim is not Thai ?

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Thanongsak said that this group was not the first to claim they had suffered. A summons had already been issued for Joy to which she had not responded,

 

If she does not respond to a second summons they will consider going to the court for a warrant for her arrest

How gracious of them.. 

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, Surelynot said:

I get ripped off every Friday and Saturday night......not always the same woman though.

Why do you feel you get ripped off, finish early before you feel you spent the monies worth?

[from the home of CC]

5 hours ago, khunPer said:

I'm always suspicious when people choose to use kind-of-agent instead of a proper source for their paperwork, like a lawyer for company registration, and the accountant or lawyer in the company where one is employed to extend a work permit and help with permission to stay based on work...

I would lay bets that the majority of these folks were looking for an 'agent' to forward bribes for them and in those cases I hope they end up deported..

[robertson468]

2 hours ago, fruitman said:

Speaking for myself i have never ever heard anything good about Thai lawyers.

Where does it say Lawyer?

[Surelynot]

19 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Why do you feel you get ripped off, finish early before you feel you spent the monies worth?

YES!!!....nail on the "head"......must learn to pace myself

[Redline]

2 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

You don't say... 

Shouldn't there be a "mulling stage" before it becomes a consideration? (I really should not tell them how to not do their "work")...

You mean a counter offer from Joy to the authorities 

[Tropicalevo]

2 hours ago, fruitman said:

Speaking for myself i have never ever heard anything good about Thai lawyers.

In my years in Thailand I have had to use Thai lawyers a number of times. The break is 60/40 very good v very bad.

Hua Hin - traffic accident - bad. Setting up a company - bad

Bangkok - murder case - very good. Defending a Thai against 'defamation of character' - very good

Samui - my wife's estate when she died without a will - very good.

You just roll the dice. Same as anywhere.

In the UK - divorce from my first wife, my lawyer cost me more in mainternance every time he opened his mouth. I did better after I sacked him and represented myself.

[Skalmannnen]

7 hours ago, Surelynot said:

I get ripped off every Friday and Saturday night......not always the same woman though.

 

Madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. 

[Humpy]

What a bunch of lazy people. Best they go to Immigration next time. Were their papers/documents etc genuine ?