Thai nurse warns compatriots about dating sites - she was conned into marriage with "Titan the Navy Captain"

[webfact]

Picture: Thai Rath

 

A female Thai nurse has warned other Thai women to beware men on online dating sites after she was conned into marriage by a serial bigamist and fraudster.

 

"A" went to Ekkaphop Leuangprasert who runs the community help group "Sai Mai Tong Rort" - in northern Bangkok. 

 

The nurse met a man online in January who called himself Titan and claimed he was a well-paid captain in the Thai navy.

 

The pair chatted until they decided to get married on April 7th. "A" thought he was the real deal and would be able to provide for her family, reported Thai Rath.

 

But Titan soon showed his true colors trying to borrow from family and friends using her status as a nurse. He even approached her mother for 1,500 baht because he said he didn't have money for food.

 

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It was discovered that Titan has married three times and been involved in this kind of activity many times before.

 

Ekkaphop said that he would be going with the victim to the Bang Khen police today, Friday. 

 

He asked the navy to tighten up their act. 

 

The nurse urged other Thai women to be careful on dating sites lest they become a victim like her. 

 

She said she had lost face and her good name after what happened. 

 

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[RandiRona]

3 minutes ago, webfact said:

A" thought he was the real deal and would be able to provide for her family, reported Thai Rath.

 

But Titan soon showed his true colors trying to borrow from family and friends using her status as a nurse. He even approached her mother for 1,500 baht because he said he didn't have money for food.

Seems tables have turned!!!

[Gottfrid]

So, after that she believes that everybody else is same gullible, foolish and stupid like she was.

[RafPinto]

Look all those profiles on Thaicupid etc.

Pictures mostly photoshopped, fake profiles, fake ages, fake degrees.

Many girls fall for this and think they won the big lottery.

Payback time for some of the girls.

[RafPinto]

30 minutes ago, webfact said:

She said she had lost face and her good name after what happened. 

Really?

Nobody forced you to go on a dating site.

[spidermike007]

Oh please. How long did she take to get to know "the captain"? How well did she get to know his family? What she is saying is "be smarter and be less desperate than me"! 

 

First of all, the biggest variable when you meet someone online, is whether or not you will like them once you see them. Do you find them attractive? Do they find you appealing? Is there any chemistry? Is she or he emotionally developed, or a stunted, emotional retard? There is no shortage of people that fit that category here. Would you want to be with her any longer than an hour, once you meet her? If not, what do you do once you have made this rather grand and rather silly commitment of your time?

 

I guess it comes down to self esteem. When I was doing online dating, I always limited the first encounter to 15-30 minutes, over a cup of coffee. And 90% of the time I was very glad I had followed that protocol. I also limited the number of contacts prior to that cup of coffee to three. I do not have any interest in having pen pals. And Thai women love to chat, and text, and you end up wasting alot of hours on someone you have never met, and more than likely are not going to get with once you do meet her, for a couple of dozen reasons.

 

The numbers are not on your side, so why invest the time, once you have made the contact? 

 

Always remember one very important fact. You are a man. You have as much control as you are able to establish. You set the agenda. Time is always your ally. Not hers. She is almost always going to be in a hurry to make things happen. And lastly, if she is willing to come and stay with a guy she has never met before, she has more than likely been working as a bar girl, in a special massage parlor, or as an escort or freelancer. Very few real "civilians" would move that fast, nor be that forward. Buyer beware. And be good to yourself. Be a man. Leave behind the Western ways of emasculation.

 

What can one even say? Many of us tend to use a great deal of discrimination when it comes to lending money to our close friends. Not sure how to even respond to the idea of lending money to someone you have never even met. Desperation knows no bounds.

[mtls2005]

53 minutes ago, webfact said:

He asked the navy to tighten up their act. 

 

So is Titan "in the navy"?

 

Pardon the Village People reference.

 

If not I sense a Defamation suit about weigh anchor.

 

 

[BritManToo]

10 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

First of all, the biggest variable when you meet someone online, is whether or not you will like them once you see them. Do you find them attractive? Do they find you appealing? Is there any chemistry?

 

When I was doing online dating, I always limited the first encounter to 15-30 minutes, over a cup of coffee.

You are posting what you are looking for in a woman.

A Thai woman mostly thinks, 'does he have a lot of money and how much can I get from him'. So if you're gonna slam her, slam her for being too stupid to find out how much he was earning.

 

When I was doing 'online dating', I always limited the first encounter to an hour in a 'resort' room. (Usually 'Movement' but sometimes 'China Chic' or 'The Love Boat')

[tingtong]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The pair chatted until they decided to get married on April 7th. "A" thought he was the real deal and would be able to provide for her family, reported Thai Rath.

So it wasn't only Titan who had a plan of leeching...????????????

 

 

 

 

[BangkokReady]

11 minutes ago, tingtong said:

So it wasn't only Titan who had a plan of leeching...????????????

One of the stumbling blocks that comes with the main decider in whether someone is a good match being what their income is.

[Rampant Rabbit]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The pair chatted until they decided to get married on April 7th. "A" thought he was the real deal and would be able to provide for her family, reported Thai Rath.

Ha  hahaha  good  serves  her  right!

[RandiRona]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

It was discovered that Titan has married three times

May be he is Muslim?? 

[zzaa09]

Don't know if any Thai ladies [of any generation] would use the political term compatriot en lieu of a more familial reference to cultural sister. 

 

Just saying. 

[kotsak]

She should've got the hint when he was introduced as "Titan the Navy Captain".. 

[PremiumLane]

1 hour ago, RafPinto said:

Payback time for some of the girls.

pretty sure two wrongs don't make a right - and these girls were engaged in ripping off men?

[Misterwhisper]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

"A" thought he was the real deal and would be able to provide for her family

Interesting motive for finding "love" on the internet and getting married.

Had "Titan" really turned out to be the "real deal" in the sense of that motive as stated by the nurse (i.e. becoming her entire extended family's walking ATM), I wonder if Thai Rath would've labeled HIM as the de-facto "victim".

Then instead of the mother being hit up by "Titan" for 1,500 baht, "Titan" himself would've been hit up by mom -- and conceivably over and over and over again, and probably for much, much more than a trifle 1,500.

AND he would've frequently been hit up by his "loving" wife's siblings, too, as well as her dad, her grandparents both maternal and paternal, and of course the whole "army" (or "navy"?) of assorted uncles, aunts, nephews, cousins, etc. etc.

 

Yes, "Titan" is a despicable conman and he should be punished in accordance with the law. But the nurse's motive alone doesn't completely absolve her from guilt either. She didn't look for love. She looked for a private banking institute that her family could tap into at their pleasure.  

[Excel]

"Titan" the Captain ? well at least it was a a rank much higher than Seaman Stains.????

[klauskunkel]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

captain in the Thai navy

Captain of the "Love Boat" a Thai Navy inflatable cruiser (made in China)

[Gottfrid]

4 hours ago, RafPinto said:

Payback time for some of the girls.

What kind of comment is this? What do you mean? Please explain more.....

[ChrisKC]

Quite understandably, the accent here is on the gullibility of a woman.

 

But it is tinged with - "Don't ask us to sympathise or help you". You got what you deserved!

 

It's happened, she knows she has made a disastrous decision!

 

No salt in the wound from me!!

 

But what about more on that despicable man?

 

 

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The pair chatted until they decided to get married on April 7th. "A" thought he was the real deal and would be able to provide for her family,

Marrying for the wrong reason [financial support] will always end badly..

 

[RichardColeman]

5 hours ago, RafPinto said:

Look all those profiles on Thaicupid etc.

Pictures mostly photoshopped, fake profiles, fake ages, fake degrees.

I met my wife - now of 7 years -  on Thaifriendly. The files of her teaching  qualifications, certificates, awards and professional  recommendations would probably kill you if they fell off the top of the cupboard.

 

 

 

 

[Poilu]

More like Captain Titanic for this lady.

[brianthainess]

2 hours ago, Excel said:

"Titan" the Captain ? well at least it was a a rank much higher than Seaman Stains.????

But not as high as Master Bates or as low as Roger the Cabin Boy.

[MrJ2U]

"Thai nurse warns compatriots about dating sites - she was conned into marriage with "Titan the Navy Captain"

 

I was conned by a nurse and I'm "Titan, the Navy Captain".

 

 

[StayinThailand2much]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

The nurse urged other Thai women to be careful on dating sites lest they become a victim like her. 

 

The problem are not the dating sites, or even the people asking for money, but the people who are st**id enough to give or lend money to people they just met, or even worse, expecting a financial windfall from getting married.

[spidermike007]

8 hours ago, BritManToo said:

You are posting what you are looking for in a woman.

A Thai woman mostly thinks, 'does he have a lot of money and how much can I get from him'. So if you're gonna slam her, slam her for being too stupid to find out how much he was earning.

 

When I was doing 'online dating', I always limited the first encounter to an hour in a 'resort' room. (Usually 'Movement' but sometimes 'China Chic' or 'The Love Boat')

I always limited the 1st encounter to a 30 minute coffee. Easy in, easy out. The likelihood of finding chemistry online is low. Why put alot of effort into it? I know fairly pathetic guys who do hundreds of hours of online chats before meeting. With me, it was two exchanges. Then, let's meet. No? See ya. 

[Kenny202]

Yeah always amazes me when someone gets done here in the land of scam. As far as online dating scams, maybe not hi tech and organized like the Nigerians but intent and result both the same. Must be the romance scam capital of the world. LIELAND. 

 

Mate of mine used to do the dating sites and probably dated hundreds of women. He had a bit of a rep as a playboy but he said to me...he always went in to meeting someone with good intentions. The aim was never to conquer some girl and dump her. he just said that so many that he met had only one aim....wealth transfer. Yours to theirs. When I thought about it he was 100% correct. I had my fair share of women here too and have to say 98% you meet online that say they are looking for a foreigner, be it villager, nurse or professional woman are usually hopelessly in debt hoping someone will not only make all their problems magically go away but give them a Hollywood lifestyle and endless supply of cash, while bringing very little to nothing to the table themselves except a lot of baggage and problems. I often wonder if maybe better off here with a bargirl. At least they are usually fun and a bit more worldly.....and lets face it most professionals at what they do ???? Just don't let yourself fall in love and have fun while it lasts

[BritManToo]

50 minutes ago, Kenny202 said:

The aim was never to conquer some girl and dump her. he just said that so many that he met had only one aim....wealth transfer. Yours to theirs. When I thought about it he was 100% correct.

I was always OK with transferring 1,000bht of my wealth to them.

[Kenny202]

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

I was always OK with transferring 1,000bht of my wealth to them.

Agree with that lol. As they say you pay for them to leave, not arrive....and if you are married etc, everyone walks away happy