Fake time, real warning: Thai couple’s scam alert - video

[snoop1130]

 

A Thai couple took to social media to issue a warning, alleging that a foreign man attempted to scam them by selling a fake luxury watch. The couple claim that the man allegedly bought the watch for 59,000 baht but offered it to them for just 6,000 baht.

 

A Thai man, Supakorn Piriyesyangkoon, shared a video and pictures of the foreigner on Facebook on April 19 and issued a warning.

 

“Warning! It happened in the Tha Chana district of Surat Thani province. This foreign man told me that he bought the watch from Switzerland for 59,000 baht but wanted to sell to me for only 6,000 baht, saying he needed money to go to the northern province of Chiang Mai.

 

He insisted on selling it. When we suspected it was a scam and took a video of him, the man got angry and gave me the middle finger. Please be careful. I almost lost money to him.

 

In the video, the foreign man is seen trying to avoid being filmed.

 

“Swiss watch, please help me. Look at it. You can give me your phone number. If it’s not real, I’ll give you your money back, I’m an engineer from Italy. Milan, football, Milan. I have no money.”

 

Supakorn and his girlfriend initially declined the offer, yet the foreign man persisted, even offering them a 1,000 baht discount. Despite this, Supakorn’s girlfriend remained resolute in her refusal and urged him to leave. Only when the couple threatened to involve the police did the foreign man relent and allow them to leave.

 

Netizens report scam

 

Many netizens shared their experiences in the comment section.

 

“I experienced this myself when I was in Koh Tao (an island in Surat Thani province).”

 

“This man is a scammer. I met him in Saraburi province in March. He sold me the same watch and said he needed money to travel to Chiang Mai. I asked him to go to the police station with me to get help from the police but he refused and left immediately.”

 

“I met him at a petrol station in Nakhon Ratchasima in October last year. He was driving an old Vios sedan with no number plates. He used the same pattern on me. So scary!”

 

“My family and I met him in Chum Phon. He tried to sell this watch to my father for 5,000 baht, saying he was going to Phuket.”

 

“Wow, he has already travelled around Thailand! I met him in Kampaeng Phet. He did the same thing and complained to me when I refused his offer.”

 

Some netizens reckon that the foreign man did not act alone in the alleged crime and may have been accompanied by a Thai national. Others claim to have encountered similar scams involving different foreigners.

 

As of now, neither the police nor relevant authorities have initiated an investigation into this particular foreign individual.

 

 

By Petch Petpailin

Caption: Photo via Facebook/ Supakorn Piriyesyangkoon

 

Source: The Thaiger 2024-04-23

 

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[Martin71]

Fake watches in Thailand... calling BS on this story....🤪

[dingdongrb]

Too funny.....  I bought my first fake Rolex about 30 years ago in Patpong. If memory serves me correctly he wanted nearly 2k THB but I haggled him down to 300.

[happysoul]

I have daily 3 to 5 adverts for fake Rolex on Facebook. I ask sometimes questions and can tell that none of them are good in English. I'll let you guess their nationality.

[impulse]

43 minutes ago, happysoul said:

I have daily 3 to 5 adverts for fake Rolex on Facebook. I ask sometimes questions and can tell that none of them are good in English. I'll let you guess their nationality.

 

Not good at English?  Could they be Scottish?

 

I literally had to lipread when I had meetings with a couple of Scottish guys I worked with.  Great guys and extremely competent.  Just hard for this Texan to understand. 

 

Perhaps the guy with the watch got mad at being filmed because he didn't want to get deported for a WP violation.  Or it may just be the watch was fake.

[Stocky]

I thought this was a reserve occupation for Indians and Arabs, now we have Europeans muscling in on the action.

[Pouatchee]

sounded , more russian than italian to me...

Edited April 23 by Pouatchee

[Bangkok Barry]

Why is this a story? The same thing happens every night in every red-light area or Bangkok and beyond. So I'm told.

[hotchilli]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He insisted on selling it. When we suspected it was a scam and took a video of him, the man got angry and gave me the middle finger. Please be careful. I almost lost money to him

Why, too cheap to be true but you nearly bought it ?

[Gottfrid]

So, 8 comments so far, and none about the bad behavior of the foreigner. You members here are amazing!

The guy is an a55h0le, and a scammer. He should be arrested and taken to court for judgement. A good outcome, would be deportation and ban for life.

Edited April 24 by Gottfrid

[Sydebolle]

a) he will eventually get arrested for ............ not holding a work permit
b) what he is doing, is ...... wrong, yet if the authorities would focus more on copyrights, trademarks etc. and less on digital wallets, special tourism zones and 300 Baht landing taxation for tourists ....... There is not a day in the calendar where I am not offered fake watches, fake viagra, illegal copies of movies on CDs and the usual offerings of fake hand bags and purses in Bangkok on the way to/from work

Lock him up and start educating your own people that ........ if a deal seems to be too good to be true then ........ the rest is history 😉

[brianthainess]

11 hours ago, Pouatchee said:

sounded , more russian than italian to me...

I was thinking the same thing, surely a scammer like him would not reveal his true nationality. 

[john donson]

buy a watch via a half open window in a car ?

[d4dang]

hopefully he will switch to the black money scam and get a few years