British Man Arrested in Thailand for Posing as Tour Guide

[sambum]

"...........charging 70,000 Baht per head for tours"

 

What kind of a tour is that? A "help yourself to all you can carry from the local gold shops"  kind of tour?

[proton]

2 hours ago, khunjeff said:

He wasn't "posing" as a tour guide and running a "scheme", he was an actual tour guide, running tours. He was violating employment laws, but it doesn't sound like he was defrauding his customers.

 

At 70k a pop I think that was fraud!

[MalcolmB]

46 minutes ago, crazykopite said:

Yet look at all the billionaire Thais who own football clubs and homes in the UK even Big Joke loves the UK he was there last month !

Have they been caught running illegal travel agencies, bashing Russians to death, doing bill runners in brothels, running over the locals, touching up kids sexually? 
 

Or do they behave themselves as guests in a foreign country should? 
 

One thing I do love about the Thais is that they have very good manners, are very hospitable and welcoming. 
I can’t recall ever meeting a Thai Karen.
 

we Brit’s can learn a lot from the Thais.

[NightSky]

Pay taxes due, register a business, hire 4 Thai employees, apply work permit. Let him free with a reasonable fine. 

[Chris Daley]

Lets lock up the company that rented the vans to him as well.  And the cops that took the bribes while certifying his company.

[Tropicalevo]

56 minutes ago, crazykopite said:

Yet look at all the billionaire Thais who own football clubs and homes in the UK even Big Joke loves the UK he was there last month !

 

Don't forget all of the corrupt rich politicians and police who own properties in London.

 

Police General Torsak Sukvimol (Big Joke's boss) is under investigation by the NACC for not declaring his two properties there. (From yesterday's BP)

[roo860]

37 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

Have they been caught running illegal travel agencies, bashing Russians to death, doing bill runners in brothels, running over the locals, touching up kids sexually? 
 

Or do they behave themselves as guests in a foreign country should? 
 

One thing I do love about the Thais is that they have very good manners, are very hospitable and welcoming. 
I can’t recall ever meeting a Thai Karen.
 

we Brit’s can learn a lot from the Thais.

GOAT, this is you isn't it, nice to see you back.

[Kinok Farang]

That boy is going places,and before anyone says"yes,to jail"yawn,i reckon to sort something like this out at 25 years old is pretty impressive.

[cjinchiangrai]

Let's see them crack down on the Chinese tour guides. This kid was way over the line and way overcharging as well. A nice scam while it lasted but probably banned for life.

[Kinok Farang]

3 hours ago, Keep Right said:

More Brits behaving badly. Thailand seems to attract the worst of the worst of the Brits.

How very original of you.

[Kinok Farang]

1 hour ago, Andycoops said:

Bye, bye silly little boy.

 

Another piece of excrement Thailand doesn't need.

You are talking sxxt.

[Presnock]

3 hours ago, khunjeff said:

He wasn't "posing" as a tour guide and running a "scheme", he was an actual tour guide, running tours. He was violating employment laws, but it doesn't sound like he was defrauding his customers.

now he will have to pay with some jail time - bet he won't consider it a worthwhile CAREER in this way again

[Kinok Farang]

The spelling on here is atrocious.

E was taken to the police station should have read, "He was taken th the police station" surely?

[Tropicalevo]

6 minutes ago, cjinchiangrai said:

Let's see them crack down on the Chinese tour guides. This kid was way over the line and way overcharging as well. A nice scam while it lasted but probably banned for life.

I do not see the scam, nor the overcharging.

70,000 baht for an 18 day holiday in glorious Thailand?

Accommodation, transport included and some meals.

From Khaosod

[Keeps]

2 hours ago, khunpin said:

No surprise for me that this criminal comes from England. 

 

3 hours ago, Keep Right said:

More Brits behaving badly. Thailand seems to attract the worst of the worst of the Brits.

 

1 hour ago, Andycoops said:

Bye, bye silly little boy.

 

Another piece of excrement Thailand doesn't need.

Where is the yawn emoji when you need one?

[Frankie baby]

When their finished with him they need to pass him over to the British Embassy to check out his so-called British passport.

[DonniePeverley]

4 hours ago, Hakuna Matata said:

 

OMG, those perky Brits once again in Thailand? 

 

There's a few British who try and do tour guides here, marketting themselves covertly on social media (ie presenting themselves as just normal vloggers but the deep line secret is they want you to buy a tour of them), and judging by the details i seen the get paid back into the UK account. Quite a few famous british tiktokers who have been clearly doing this, getting people signed up, or have done this in the past. 

Edited May 31 by DonniePeverley

[DonniePeverley]

3 hours ago, Chetzee said:

UK passport available to pretty much everyone these days ..... on the plus size he's not drenched in Tattoos and been in a fight ..... 

 

Utter nonsense. You need to have lived at least 7 years, and worked. If you came to the UK through marriage your partner needs to be earning at least 30,000 pounds approx a year (and this is rising). Then have to do a life in the UK test (which trust not even the locals would pass), then a language test. Then after you pass all that <deleted>, criminal record check, and can afford the application you then after all those years can become a british citizenship and get a passport. 

 

It's not easy at all. 

[cjinchiangrai]

27 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

I do not see the scam, nor the overcharging.

70,000 baht for an 18 day holiday in glorious Thailand?

Accommodation, transport included and some meals.

From Khaosod

70k Per Person. It is a very high price but beyond that, he is working illegally and probably not paying taxes. Screw the twerp, Bangkok Hilton then directly off to Europe with an Interpol sticker on his back.

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, khunjeff said:

4 hours ago, Hakuna Matata said:

He should be held accountable for breaking the law, shouldn't he?

 

Sure. But for working illegally or running an unlicensed business, not for operating a fraudulent scheme (as the first article implies he was doing).

No implication, whatsoever, in the OP that fraud was a consideration.

[BangkokReady]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

A British man was arrested on Koh Phangan, Thailand, for posing as a tour guide

 

He was giving tours.  Surely that's working as a tour guide?

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, BritScot said:

7 hours ago, Korat Kiwi said:

Pity he didn't do it via correct channels. 

He isn't Thai so no correct channels as its a reserved Thai only job.

Yes, there are, his company could have employed Thai guides. 

[Liverpool Lou]

8 minutes ago, cjinchiangrai said:

Screw the twerp, Bangkok Hilton then directly off to Europe with an Interpol sticker on his back.

What has Interpol got to do with this?

[Kinok Farang]

7 minutes ago, DonniePeverley said:

 

A clear racist comment, that would get you in trouble in the UK. So i am going to assume you are here in Thailand that you feel embolded to make this old racist comment. I am going to assume you are in Pattaya. Would i be correct?

I assume you have blue hair,am i right?

i am in Phu Quoc.

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, thailand49 said:

How the great had fallen each day it is the Brit did this did that.  If aren't drunk, getting kick in the head, now they scamming good folks.

What are you talking about, there is no suggestion that anyone was being scammed? 

[Chetzee]

11 minutes ago, DonniePeverley said:

 

Utter nonsense. You need to have lived at least 7 years, and worked. If you came to the UK through marriage your partner needs to be earning at least 30,000 pounds approx a year (and this is rising). Then have to do a life in the UK test (which trust not even the locals would pass), then a language test. Then after you pass all that <deleted>, criminal record check, and can afford the application you then after all those years can become a british citizenship and get a passport. 

 

It's not easy at all. 

yea right coz everyone arriving on a boat goes that route !   I think u need to think a little more out of the box ...... like crims do 

18 minutes ago, DonniePeverley said:

 

Utter nonsense. You need to have lived at least 7 years, and worked. If you came to the UK through marriage your partner needs to be earning at least 30,000 pounds approx a year (and this is rising). Then have to do a life in the UK test (which trust not even the locals would pass), then a language test. Then after you pass all that <deleted>, criminal record check, and can afford the application you then after all those years can become a british citizenship and get a passport. 

 

It's not easy at all. 

the life in the UK test is a piece of piss for anyone you can remember a few historical facts ..... as for the English test .... its beyond easy , and the institutions that the test is farmed out to have a vested interest in candidates passing .....  And I'm not basing this on hearsay but lived experience 

[bob smith]

good lord.

 

how in the blue blazes is this even news?

 

seriously???

get a life!

 

bob.

[DonniePeverley]

Follow a few of these hardcore 'influencers' from the UK on TikTok who sprout out that the UK is not great and come to Thailand mantra (without ever giving you all the details) - they create a platform of entertaining videos, seemingly offering advice. Then you get the odd message from them they are doing a tour. 

 

Even some of the major guys on TikTok have done this sort of thing in the past. 

[Liverpool Lou]

3 hours ago, thesetat2013 said:

Once the police caught him.. His customers lost their tour guide hence the fraud haha.. 

Haha...did they pay in advance?

[transam]

1 minute ago, bob smith said:

good lord.

 

how in the blue blazes is this even news?

 

seriously???

get a life!

 

bob.

Blimey, you can talk...........😝