Pailin Ticket Scam?

[libertarian101]

I am a 28 y.o. American. I went to Prum border last month.They asked for a plane ticket (which I don't have).They finally let me through after I showed them an itinerary after a lot of hastle.

Yesterday I went to the Duang border.2 guys who claim they work there,said I needed a bus ticket.Afer they got a copy of one,then they said that costs 300 baht plus 300 baht service fee.They said everyone is required to have a ticket and insisted they work there.When I went to Duang the month before,after one of them kept bugging me,claiming he worked there,I let him help me and wasn't charged.

Has anyone had similar experience at the Duang Border?Are tickets required?Do those guys work there?I doubt it. Thanks

[eugengeri]

I am a 28 y.o. American. I went to Prum border last month.They asked for a plane ticket (which I don't have).They finally let me through after I showed them an itinerary after a lot of hastle.

Yesterday I went to the Duang border.2 guys who claim they work there,said I needed a bus ticket.Afer they got a copy of one,then they said that costs 300 baht plus 300 baht service fee.They said everyone is required to have a ticket and insisted they work there.When I went to Duang the month before,after one of them kept bugging me,claiming he worked there,I let him help me and wasn't charged.

Has anyone had similar experience at the Duang Border?Are tickets required?Do those guys work there?I doubt it. Thanks

Yes, I know PRUM, it was one of my favorite border before.

I think it's the first posting on TV I can remember somebody called the name PRUM as a border with this same problem like the ARANYAPRATHETH/POI PET & PONG NAM RON/DUANG border.

OK a little bit hided if you want to find this little border. But I have seen already about two years ago Visa-Service-Van's there from Pattaya.

So, what I mean, I'm not so surprised about this posting about PRUM (Cambodia Border) ticket problem.

by the way, thank you about your report.

[sriracha john]

Yesterday I went to the Duang border.2 guys who claim they work there,said I needed a bus ticket. After they got a copy of one,then they said that costs 300 baht plus 300 baht service fee.They said everyone is required to have a ticket and insisted they work there.When I went to Duang the month before,after one of them kept bugging me,claiming he worked there,I let him help me and wasn't charged.

Has anyone had similar experience at the Duang Border?Are tickets required?Do those guys work there?I doubt it. Thanks

Just two weeks ago, those with me, but without a visa in Daung were charged 200 baht total for the bus ticket.

If it's now 600 baht total, then apparently there's quite a bit of inflation going on in Cambodia.

[astral]

So this is a scam on the Cambodian side?

At Aranyaprathet the scam is on the Thai side. Bus tickets to Ankor Wat.

[sriracha john]

Yes, it is on the Cambodian side. The riders were sent to an office after lunch at the casino and before they were given their passports back. They then showed the bus tickets at Thai immigration while getting stamped back into Thailand.