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Telephone call from "Immigration"

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23 hours ago, brianthainess said:

I sincerely hope you didn't give them your D.O.B. and passport number. edit; Ask reception if they gave out your room number. Should you be worried? YES.

A lot of paranoia here. What can a scammer do with this information?

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  • Tim. It was a phone call.  Tell them nothing, they are not your friends. Ask for a meeting when they call again, at their Immigration office. Good luck.

  • I have an easy solution for this kind of situation. If a number is calling me that isn't in my contacts, I don't answer. That has served me well.

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    OP do not ever give out any info on the phone to anybody, how do you actually know the person was an io ? Any time you get a call like that, you ask for the immigration office land line number, n

29 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

A lot of paranoia here. What can a scammer do with this information?

Well i dont know what scammers can do with peoples details, but only last work immigration bosses were warning us to be on our guard regarding fake immigration officers.

On 7/15/2021 at 3:33 PM, Led Lolly Yellow Lolly said:

When they came to visit me many years ago, they got lost, I had to drive over to the nearest town to guide them into our house. No joke.

They came in marked vehicles. The modus operandi is that they visit in order to go through the motions of verifying one's marriage etc etc. They set up a trestle table in our car park, plugged in their notebook and printer, invite the Puu Yai Baan over and an independent witness from the village both of whom state that they know me and my wife and they confirm our marriage is genuine. They make lots of copies of everything in the way Thai people love to do, pack their stuff away, wai, and then they're gone never to be seen again. I don't know if they found their way home without help.

What I describe is probably more common in the boonies.

I live out in the sticks and had a home visit yesterday. Think it is the 4th and certainly the quickest. One guy came in black Toyota and we had to have 4 photos taken with him, very quick and gone within 5 minutes.

No passport check, no paperwork, no questions, wish they had all been like that.

23 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Well i dont know what scammers can do with peoples details, but only last work immigration bosses were warning us to be on our guard regarding fake immigration officers.

Right, probably fake extortion. 

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