Bogus baht bills bankrupt shopkeeper in costly counterfeit conundrum in northern Thailand

[webfact]

 

A significant financial loss was experienced by a 61 year old shopkeeper from Udon Thani, due to counterfeit banknotes.

Buaphan Somsud filed a complaint with the local police station today after discovering someone had used 50 baht counterfeit notes in her shop’s top-up machine.

 

Buaphan, who owns a grocery store in the Ban Lao community, reported the incident to the Deputy Inspector of Udon Thani Police Station. She notified him that someone had used five counterfeit 50 baht banknotes to top up their account using the JJ Top Up machine in her store. This act had caused her significant loss, and she wished to report the incident to the police for further investigation.

The event took a turn when Buaphan showed journalists the top-up machine located in front of her grocery store. Inside the cash box of the machine, four counterfeit 50 baht banknotes were found mixed with genuine 100, 50, and 20 baht notes.

 

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Full story: The Thaiger 2023-11-24

 

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[Tropicalevo]

Now everyone knows how to fiddle the system.

[NoDisplayName]

19 minutes ago, webfact said:

Bogus baht bills bankrupt shopkeeper

 

A significant financial loss was experienced by a 61 year old shopkeeper

 

gosh!  that sounds awful!

poor elderly shopkeeper bankrupted!

 

21 minutes ago, webfact said:

someone had used five counterfeit 50 baht banknotes to top up their account

 

clickbait so soon after the resurrection?

sad.

[Gottfrid]

I call for smarter machines that do not accept Pokemon Money

[Tropicalevo]

25 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

clickbait so soon after the resurrection?

sad.

The headline was written by The Thaiger. When was their resurrection?

[FritsSikkink]

200 thb bankruptcy, what a <deleted> reporting.

[tomazbodner]

A while back I dealt with a guy who worked for a company that was dealing with the cash top-up machines. I was inquiring about why the new notes were not accepted, even they were out for a year already. His answer was that they could not take a risk to add them by themselves to the registry of notes in the machines, as if anything went wrong, they would be liable for the damages. So they were waiting for the software update from Bank of Thailand, as if they used official software, and anything went wrong, then the central bank would be responsible, not them.

 

It seems whoever made those top-up machines did not have the wit of a professional company, and should, in my opinion, cover all the losses those "hosting" these machines suffer from, due to lack of diligence of the machine producer or distributor.

[ezzra]

All Thai banknotes should be made of like the 20 baht, some of the 20 Baht have been printed on De La Rue SAFEGUARD® polymer substrate and CCL’s GuardianTM substrate, once all the notes will be made of this martial forging them will be a thing of the past...

Edited November 24, 2023 by ezzra

[neeray]

250 baht doesn't cause a bankruptcy.

[ukrules]

3 hours ago, neeray said:

250 baht doesn't cause a bankruptcy.

Yeah, she's lying, no doubt about it.

[newnative]

Nice use of alliteration in the thread title.  

[Liverpool Lou]

6 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

7 hours ago, webfact said:

someone had used five counterfeit 50 baht banknotes to top up their account

 

clickbait so soon after the resurrection?

sad.

Nothing to do with Asean Now, it's not their report.

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, neeray said:

250 baht doesn't cause a bankruptcy.

Could do if they have liabilities and no more assets and a creditor wanted to push the issue.

[Liverpool Lou]

42 minutes ago, ukrules said:

4 hours ago, neeray said:

250 baht doesn't cause a bankruptcy.

Yeah, she's lying, no doubt about it.

She wasn't quoted as saying that, The Thaiger said it, so there's no doubt that she wasn't lying.

[Liverpool Lou]

33 minutes ago, newnative said:

Nice use of alliteration in the thread title.  

Pathetic, overdone alliteration, more accurately!

Edited November 24, 2023 by Liverpool Lou