Foreigners at work? "Google translate" giveaway sounded alarm bells for some in "Shopping Mall" fraud

[webfact]

Foreigners at work? "Google translate" giveaway sounded alarm bells for some in "Shopping Mall" fraud

 

 

A further 100 victims of an online fraud becoming known as the "Shopping Mall" con have gone to press the Department of Special Investigation for action.

 

Some have called it a variation on a Ponzi scheme.

 

The basic premise was that people put down deposits of 1,000 baht up and then were promised rewards of 6% or much more just by clicking 60 times on an item for sale. 

 

The more you invested the more you stood to earn.

 

Needless to say that the people behind it shut the site down and made off with all the cash when the funds reached tens of millions of baht. 

 

Two admins had been assigned to each large group of "investors" on Line groups and they asked whether the investor would like to converse in Thai or English.

 

One of the victims told PPTV 36 that they smelled a rat when the Thai came back in the style of "Google Translate" - that is often meaningless gibberish.

 

This person suspects foreigners were behind the con. 

 

Source: PPTV36

 

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[sanuk711]

15 minutes ago, webfact said:

Google Translate" - that is often meaningless gibberish

 

I thought it had improved a lot over the last few years.......

[JayClay]

4 minutes ago, sanuk711 said:

 

I thought it had improved a lot over the last few years.......

 

It has... it's improved from *always* meaningless gibberish to *often* meaningless gibberish. Still has a long way to go.

 

(I guess it also depends on what the source language was, which in this situation we don't know)

[foreverlomsak]

27 minutes ago, webfact said:

This person suspects foreigners were behind the con. 

As 99% of the population of the world is a foreigner to Thai, and a Thai is a foreigner in 99% of the world, stands a fairly high chance of being right.

It's also easier to blame foreigners with no proof.

Like the Thai shopkeeper who said 2 farang had entered his shop and stolen a number of articles, the police found the 2 culprits living not far away, and guess what - they were both Thai 

[dabhand]

27 minutes ago, foreverlomsak said:

As 99% of the population of the world is a foreigner to Thai, and a Thai is a foreigner in 99% of the world, stands a fairly high chance of being right.

It's also easier to blame foreigners with no proof.

Like the Thai shopkeeper who said 2 farang had entered his shop and stolen a number of articles, the police found the 2 culprits living not far away, and guess what - they were both Thai 

 

No proof? Hmmm.

 

https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/crime/huge-pyramid-scheme-and-scam-uncovered-involving-1000s-of-people

 

[tomazbodner]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

This person suspects foreigners were behind the con. 

No Thai person would ever do something like that. Thai rak Thai ❤️

[JustAnotherFarang]

Even my thai girlfriend said that 80% of thai people are dishonest.....but she might have been lying ????

Edited February 11, 2021 by JustAnotherFarang

[simon43]

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The basic premise was that people put down deposits of 1,000 baht up and then were promised rewards of 6% or much more just by clicking 60 times on an item for sale. 

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Dear God! Eugenics and euthanising those who possess almost zero brain cells could have a future in Thailand...

[RichardColeman]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

The basic premise was that people put down deposits of 1,000 baht up and then were promised rewards of 6% or much more just by clicking 60 times on an item for sale. 

I guess the fact that the whole clicking to falsely enhance a products ratings seems totally lost on them in their greed.

[internationalism]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

One of the victims told PPTV 36 that they smelled a rat when the Thai came back in the style of "Google Translate" - that is often meaningless gibberish.

 

This person suspects foreigners were behind the con. 

 

so him, and many thousands native thai speakers went for a gibberish ads.

all confiscated money should not be given them back, but to poor and needy, who do really need it 

[kevc]

You know what you could tell a Thai person give me one baht and next week I'll give you five hundred back and they'd believe you anything to do with get rich qiuck.

[Regyai]

Basic rules of nature:

 

The death rate never changes - its always one per person

 

People too stupid to have money - can't.

[Artisi]

7 hours ago, sanuk711 said:

 

I thought it had improved a lot over the last few years.......

Maybe it has, but still gibberish in most cases for Thai to English - can't comment for the English to Thai.... 

[Artisi]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

I guess the fact that the whole clicking to falsely enhance a products ratings seems totally lost on them in their greed.

Think that is already a well establish practice.... 

[sweatalot]

3 hours ago, JustAnotherFarang said:

Even my thai girlfriend said that 80% of thai people are dishonest.....but she might have been lying ????

So if your girl friend is lying this means

 

It is not true that 80% of Thai people are dishonest

- but wait could it mean that less than  1 % are dishonest?

 

or  more than 99 %  ?

Edited February 11, 2021 by sweatalot

[nkg]

5 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

I guess the fact that the whole clicking to falsely enhance a products ratings seems totally lost on them in their greed.

 

If you can convince people they are profiting from defrauding other people, they are much more likely to believe that your scam is real. Human nature ????

[Albert Zweistein]

9 hours ago, JustAnotherFarang said:

Even my thai girlfriend said that 80% of thai people are dishonest.....but she might have been lying ????

Because she is dishonest too ?

[donnacha]

1 hour ago, Albert Zweistein said:

Because she is dishonest too ?

Congratulations, it is my pleasure to officially award you your very first Got the Actual Joke badge. Bravo.

[Albert Zweistein]

Just now, donnacha said:

Congratulations, it is my pleasure to officially award you your very first Got the Actual Joke badge. Bravo.

Wrong, I have dozen's of them.

[VocalNeal]

10 hours ago, JustAnotherFarang said:

Even my thai girlfriend said that 80% of thai people are dishonest.....but she might have been lying ????

 

Or as a Singaporean might say " Don't Thai to me!"

[scubascuba3]

15 hours ago, sanuk711 said:

 

I thought it had improved a lot over the last few years.......

It's very poor if you translate Facebook comments, probably because Thais use slang and abbreviations

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, JustAnotherFarang said:

Even my thai girlfriend said that 80% of thai people are dishonest.....but she might have been lying ????

Conservative would be nicer.

[connda]

Blaming "foreigners" is easy and is the go-to thing to do in this xenophobic country when thing go wrong.

Now, actually blaming themselves for being ignorant, gullible, and so unsophisticated that they allow their greed to lead them right into a con?  Can't do that as it's a major loss of face.
Instead:
"All foreigner bad."  Anutin pretty much summed up the feeling of the average Thai, especially elite Thais who provide role models for Thai citizens when he stated to the media, "<bleep> foreigners.  <bleep> foreign tourists."  So at the end of the day we are all seen as cons, thieves, and hucksters.  Hench the Machiavellian immigration laws and total mistrust bordering on hatred of all thing concerning foreigners.  And of course, we then ourselves are seen as nothing much more that targets for money extraction schemes legal and otherwise, which are of course, perfectly acceptable because?  We're just <bleep> foreigners.  We deserve it in their minds I'm sure.