Big falang lottery winners in Thailand?

[Sandboxer]

Does anyone here know any falang who has won "real" (not a few hundred or thousand baht, or even 100,000) money in the Thai lottery - and received every satang of it minus the mandatory tax/processing fee etc.?

 

What would you do if you discovered you have the winning ticket to, say, 6 or 12 million baht?

 

Personally, I'd probably first upload a Youtube video of me holding it (not necessarily making it public, just to have it as evidence), then I'd go to a (trusted) lawyer and maybe only then start the claim with the lottery office. Or would this be overly paranoid? Would you just go to the lottery office or where the official place is to claim your prize without any precautions?

 

As clear cut as the law seems to be on this (i.e. falang being allowed to win/claim), part of me always thinks that somehow "they" would try to f__k a  out of  foreigner out of or all of it.

 

For goggles, let's both example of a happily married (with a Thai) falang, and a married falang who doesn't quite trust the wife with such an amount, and totally single/unattached falang. 

 

What would you do? 

 

 

[still kicking]

2 minutes ago, Sandboxer said:

Does anyone here know any falang who has won "real" (not a few hundred or thousand baht, or even 100,000) money in the Thai lottery - and received every satang of it minus the mandatory tax/processing fee etc.?

 

What would you do if you discovered you have the winning ticket to, say, 6 or 12 million baht?

 

Personally, I'd probably first upload a Youtube video of me holding it (not necessarily making it public, just to have it as evidence), then I'd go to a (trusted) lawyer and maybe only then start the claim with the lottery office. Or would this be overly paranoid? Would you just go to the lottery office or where the official place is to claim your prize without any precautions?

 

As clear cut as the law seems to be on this (i.e. falang being allowed to win/claim), part of me always thinks that somehow "they" would try to f__k a  out of  foreigner out of or all of it.

 

For goggles, let's both example of a happily married (with a Thai) falang, and a married falang who doesn't quite trust the wife with such an amount, and totally single/unattached falang. 

 

What would you do? 

 

 

Easy don't play Thai lottery

Edited 2 hours ago by still kicking

[Sandboxer]

4 minutes ago, still kicking said:

Easy don't play Thai lottery

I was hoping for at least a few non-retarded replies before this exact mensa-fail inevitably came, but ok. Now that we've got it over with....😁

 

Anyone?

Edited 2 hours ago by Sandboxer

[Ralf001]

Yeah a friend won a few million 2 years ago, had no issues claiming.

Edited 2 hours ago by Ralf001

[VBer]

My guess is that there will be few, because usually farangs are learning mathematics in school

Edited 2 hours ago by VBer

[Olmate]

'Shadow boxer'... we dont live in a lawless land, despite your paranoia! Much more scammy in your home country I suggest.

[Sandboxer]

49 minutes ago, Olmate said:

we dont live in a lawless land

 

Silly me, I should've remembered before posting how the citizenry of this place dutifully follow the laws of this wonderfully lawful society.

 

Gee, just this morning I TOTALLY didn't see my Thai neighbor law dump 2 tons of trash in the TOTALLY lawfully designated landfill in the middle of the forest in his TOTALLY legally plated, TOTALLY insured pickup which he's TOTALLY licensed to drive and TOTALLY never drives drunk off his azz. 😁

 

I TOTALLY don't see any of this type of unlawful behavior from morning till evening, every single day.

Edited 1 hour ago by Sandboxer

[sambum]

1 hour ago, Olmate said:

'Shadow boxer'... we dont live in a lawless land, despite your paranoia! Much more scammy in your home country I suggest.

 

Agree to a certain extent. In the North East of England where there are many Working Mens ' Clubs, and a big part of the weekend entertainment there is Bingo, and in some of the larger Clubs, there is quite a lot of money involved, especially the "Snowball/Jackpot" game that if not won on the night rolls over to the next nightly/weekly session. Many years ago a "signed in" visitor to a Club won the Snowball game, but they refused to pay him because he wasn't a member of the Club, so was not eligible to play for the "Snowball" prize. All hell broke loose as they were of course quite happy to take his money when he purchased the game tickets, and eventually the Club Chairman intervened and sorted things out "to everyone's mutual satisfaction"!  But they (and every other Club in the North East Federation of Working Mens' Clubs) did put a sign up after that stating that non-members could not play the Snowball/Jackpot game!

Edited 1 hour ago by sambum