My Girlfriend Fell for the Land Scam

[Chris Daley]

Ever since I met her 8 years ago she has said she owns land in Chiang Mai.  I thought this is so amusing I never talked about it much.  She paid rent for the land for years and finally set up a date to go and see it.  We booked flight tickets and the day before the owner cancelled the trip.  I am rolling on the floor with laughter but I have conform to society so I say ''Oh no.. really?!!!  I feel sad.''

 

The owner then wants to meet at a nearby shopping mall.  When they meet the owner has the audacity to say there is no land.  She says she is sorry and she will pay us back month by month.  We haven't had a single payment. 

 

We have paid for her lifestyle for the past decade and she just says there is no land but she will pay us back.  Amazing.

 

How about you?  Do you pay for land hundreds of miles away that you have never seen?

[Digitalbanana]

6 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

I thought this is so amusing

 

6 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

We have paid for her lifestyle for the past decade and she just says there is no land but she will pay us back.

You'd need to be a bit daft to be amused by this wouldn't you?

[steve187]

so she says she owns this land but pays rent, strange

no site of any land docs etc i assume

[Pouatchee]

3 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

She paid rent for the land for years

 

was your gf paying to rent, or to buy... 

 

3 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

We have paid for her lifestyle

 

paid for her lifestyle? how much was the monthly installment?

before we bought our land we insisted on seeing the chanote. i hope she has a paper trail and that there is some kind of recourse. thais are trusting of the wrong people in many cases. they rather trust a thai con artist than us foreigners

[Celsius]

My wife was playing the share money crap where one Thai person (in this case her friend) puts money in a high savings interest account (in this case it was a bank in United States) and everyone pitches in every month a certain sum for supposedly higher interest.

 

As soon as I met her I told her to pull money out of this nonsense and she did.... around 500k baht in her case. Some "customers" weren't so lucky.

 

I asked her to explain me in detail how this s̶c̶a̶m̶ scheme works, but her explanation never made any sense to me.

[Celsius]

2 minutes ago, Pouatchee said:

paid for her lifestyle? how much was the monthly installment?

 

probably more than one sucker

[Liverpool Lou]

14 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

Ever since I met her 8 years ago she has said she owns land in Chiang Mai.  I thought this is so amusing I never talked about it much.  She paid rent for the land for years and finally set up a date to go and see it.

"...she has said she owns land in Chiang Mai".

"She paid rent for the land for years..."

 

You really need to proofread you fantasy tales before posting them. 

[petermik]

15 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

Ever since I met her 8 years ago she has said she owns land in Chiang Mai.  I thought this is so amusing I never talked about it much.  She paid rent for the land for years and finally set up a date to go and see it. 

Methinks you need to change your girlfriend for someone with a little common sense....

[scubascuba3]

17 minutes ago, Celsius said:

i asked her to explain me in detail how this s̶c̶a̶m̶ scheme works, but her explanation never made any sense to me.

Don't you find that's pretty much every time they explain anything?

[scubascuba3]

28 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

Ever since I met her 8 years ago she has said she owns land in Chiang Mai.  I thought this is so amusing I never talked about it much.  She paid rent for the land for years and finally set up a date to go and see it.  We booked flight tickets and the day before the owner cancelled the trip.  I am rolling on the floor with laughter but I have conform to society so I say ''Oh no.. really?!!!  I feel sad.''

 

The owner then wants to meet at a nearby shopping mall.  When they meet the owner has the audacity to say there is no land.  She says she is sorry and she will pay us back month by month.  We haven't had a single payment. 

 

We have paid for her lifestyle for the past decade and she just says there is no land but she will pay us back.  Amazing.

 

How about you?  Do you pay for land hundreds of miles away that you have never seen?

She has an agreement presumably? then go to the police she would of scammed others, lies built on lies

[gargamon]

So let's assume you were giving her an allowance and some of that was being sent to pay for the non-existent land. Who's the fool in that scenario?

[freeworld]

So sorry about that.

56 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

I am rolling on the floor with laughter but I have conform to society so I say ''Oh no.. really?!!!  I feel sad.''

 

56 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

We have paid for her lifestyle for the past decade and she just says there is no land but she will pay us back.  Amazing.

 

So basically you are also laughing at yourself?

 

Never thought or asked about contracts or paperwork to justify all the payments?

[richard_smith237]

Before we met, Wife put in a couple of Million Baht for an 'off-plan' unit in a shopping mall that was planned to be built next to Chatuchak...    A few years later the mall had never been built and the developer was ignoring all calls and communications. 

 

Wife went to the consumer board, it was discovered that there were numerous complaints / victims.

The consumer board took on the case and sued the developer who was forced to pay out.

The result, an agreement to refund about 80% of the money.

So, a developer who had taken perhaps 80 Million Baht from potential clients still profited a significant sum.

 

I question whether the developer ever had any plan to build the mall at all or if this was the game (scam) all along.

[OneMoreFarang]

What you describe sounds like fraud. Go to the police.

[Mavideol]

met some GF with something good between her legs, unfortunately nothing between her ears, it appears that's very common here 555

[Pouatchee]

1 hour ago, Celsius said:

My wife was playing the share money crap where one Thai person (in this case her friend) puts money in a high savings interest account (in this case it was a bank in United States) and everyone pitches in every month a certain sum for supposedly higher interest.

 

sounds pretty much like a pyramid scheme. they always implode at some point

everyone i know who was in one could never explain it to me either... they just said that new members were needed and that eventually it would be their turn to cash out...

[andux]

1 hour ago, gargamon said:

So let's assume you were giving her an allowance and some of that was being sent to pay for the non-existent land. Who's the fool in that scenario?

 

Legend says OP can still hear, "Tee rak... I need more allowance for my land."

[sungod]

48 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

What you describe sounds like fraud. Go to the police.

What he describes is fantasy

[NorthernRyland]

1 hour ago, Chris Daley said:

How about you?  Do you pay for land hundreds of miles away that you have never seen?

why is she paying rent on land she's never seen?  Why would anyone ever buy land the haven't seen?

 

Funny actually some relative of my wife bought land in Chiang Mai too which he never saw first. When he went to finally see it they discovered it was a bog and didn't have any access so basically a scam. This explains why there's so much over priced land all over Chiang Mai though.

[NorthernRyland]

6 minutes ago, Pouatchee said:

 

sounds pretty much like a pyramid scheme. they always implode at some point

it's even stupider than that. They were literally just giving money to some women for nothing. Literally nothing, no land, no contract, no nothing. Imagine some women calls you one day and says pay me 10,000k/month for 10 years and you get some land and you agree and start sending money. That's basically what happened here it sounds like.

[Photoguy21]

I wouldn't pay for anything I didn't see and had checked out with the appropriate authorities

[SAFETY FIRST]

2 hours ago, Chris Daley said:

She paid rent for the land for years

Poor scammers, no more money. 

They're monthly rental scam money has now stopped. 

 

Is it possible that your girlfriend was in on this scam, did she report this to the police? 

 

 

[PoorSucker]

2 hours ago, Celsius said:

 

probably more than one sucker

Hey, not me.

[john donson]

step 1 , you say GF owns land

step 2, GF pays rent 

 

if you own land, don't you have a chanote?

 

smells fishy

[OneMoreFarang]

37 minutes ago, sungod said:

What he describes is fantasy

I guess he might mix up some words like paying rent and regular payments to buy something.

For some of us English language difficult language. 😉 

[Pouatchee]

40 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

48 minutes ago, Pouatchee said:

 

sounds pretty much like a pyramid scheme. they always implode at some point

it's even stupider than that. They were literally just giving money to some women for nothing. Literally nothing, no land, no contract, no nothing. Imagine some women calls you one day and says pay me 10,000k/month for 10 years and you get some land and you agree and start sending money. That's basically what happened here it sounds like.

 

my comment about the pyramid scheme was based on @Celsius comment about his wife... quoted here under. i did not say the op was in a pyramid scheme but his wife's case is as you described... money for nothing

 

2 hours ago, Celsius said:

My wife was playing the share money crap where one Thai person (in this case her friend) puts money in a high savings interest account (in this case it was a bank in United States) and everyone pitches in every month a certain sum for supposedly higher interest.

 

[steven100]

Why was she even renting land with nothing on it   ?   this doesn't make sense.  

 

The whole story is difficult to understand .....   how can she own land in Chang Mai if she's only renting it ?  

 

Was she supposedly buying the land of a Thai and he was collecting payments from her for the last decade ( not rent )  ?

 

And the guy who received payments has disappeared ? 

 

Yet she say's she will pay you back every cent but until now has payed back zero baht.  ?   

 

 

Sounds like she was in on the scam with the Thai guy and they scammed you unfortunately.   

[thesetat]

18 hours ago, Chris Daley said:

Ever since I met her 8 years ago she has said she owns land in Chiang Mai.  I thought this is so amusing I never talked about it much.  She paid rent for the land for years and finally set up a date to go and see it.  We booked flight tickets and the day before the owner cancelled the trip.  I am rolling on the floor with laughter but I have conform to society so I say ''Oh no.. really?!!!  I feel sad.''

 

The owner then wants to meet at a nearby shopping mall.  When they meet the owner has the audacity to say there is no land.  She says she is sorry and she will pay us back month by month.  We haven't had a single payment. 

 

We have paid for her lifestyle for the past decade and she just says there is no land but she will pay us back.  Amazing.

 

How about you?  Do you pay for land hundreds of miles away that you have never seen?

Why didn't you file a police report? 

Can not see how you found all of that funny though. A gf of 8 years would be considered your wife anyway. Also it sounds as if you were the one scammed simply because she must have been using your money to pay for the uhh (land). 

[steven100]

as I mentioned,   the story does not make sense ....  

 

why would she rent land with nothing on it  ?

[4MyEgo]

19 hours ago, Chris Daley said:

We have paid for her lifestyle for the past decade and she just says there is no land

 

Nuff said.