Travel Fake TDAC Website Emerges as New System Debuts in Thailand

[petedk]

As someone said it isn't fake or a scam as it clearly(?)  states that it is a third party site. 

 

I remember when I tried to do my TM30 for the first time I was met with a similar site. There the fact that it was a third party was quite cleverly hidden.

 

As with many official sites, there are commercial sites that pay Google for their site to be advertise and they often come before the main official site.

[dallen52]

So basically phishing all your information including passport details. 

[Sydebolle]

Why does this not come as a surprise. Just waiting for a fake website faking the fake website. 

If visa service agencies make an extra THB 1,000 as a service provider by "assisting" the data entry on behalf and behest of a traveller, so be it - good on them. 

Absolutely amazing what the goons at the immigration come up with all the time. Considering the data entry it makes you wonder, what on Earth they want to do with this data, apart from exposing millions and millions and millions of non-Thais to potential data theft and/or data misuse. 

Welcome to Thailand, the country which never runs out of funny ideas 😉 

[VBF]

For obvious reasons, I haven't looked and won't be looking at this fake site but I don't quite understand why anyone would bother with it assuming that you have to enter the same amount of information as on the official site. What's the incentive to pay to do the same job as you could do for free?

[Upnotover]

5 minutes ago, VBF said:

For obvious reasons, I haven't looked and won't be looking at this fake site but I don't quite understand why anyone would bother with it assuming that you have to enter the same amount of information as on the official site. What's the incentive to pay to do the same job as you could do for free?

The only conceivable reason is that someone is unable/unwilling to do it in the 3 day window and wants to do it earlier rather that use the kiosk on arrival.

[trainman34014]

People running this Country are complete Idiots and never get anything right first time, or sometimes any time !   In the end there won't be anyone coming as they will all be visiting other Countries where the 'Authorities' are much more friendly and welcoming.   After all; who has ever met a smiling Immigration Officer saying nice words when they enter Thailand ?

[josephbloggs]

37 minutes ago, VBF said:

For obvious reasons, I haven't looked and won't be looking at this fake site but I don't quite understand why anyone would bother with it assuming that you have to enter the same amount of information as on the official site. What's the incentive to pay to do the same job as you could do for free?

Pretty sure they are targetting people who don't know you don't have to pay.

[josephbloggs]

45 minutes ago, Sydebolle said:

Absolutely amazing what the goons at the immigration come up with all the time. Considering the data entry it makes you wonder, what on Earth they want to do with this data, apart from exposing millions and millions and millions of non-Thais to potential data theft and/or data misuse. 

Welcome to Thailand, the country which never runs out of funny ideas 😉 

On no, the "goons" have come up with something that is free and takes you 2-3 minutes and makes your arrival better (eventually leading to e-gates in future).

Were the same "goons" responsible for bringing in electronic pre-arrival forms in Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Israel, Belize, The UK, The EU, Jamaica etc etc.

You lot don't half make mountains out of tiny tiny molehills.

[VBF]

2 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

Pretty sure they are targetting people who don't know you don't have to pay.

Clearly. The ignorance of such people who don't bother to find out often astounds me.

It's the same here in UK - people paying over the odds for things like driving licences by going to non-government sites.

I'm tempted to suggest that they're just lazy and deserve to have to pay!

[AustinRacing]

Considering it came out almost at the same time as the government one suggests insiders developing both websites together. One for the government and one for themselves to make money. 

[josephbloggs]

1 hour ago, AustinRacing said:

Considering it came out almost at the same time as the government one suggests insiders developing both websites together. One for the government and one for themselves to make money. 

The government one has been available for weeks.

[Khun Loong]

I think we all know that the official site will not remain free for long.

[josephbloggs]

5 hours ago, Khun Loong said:

I think we all know that the official site will not remain free for long.

Do we?

Did they charge for TM6?

[Sydebolle]

17 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

On no, the "goons" have come up with something that is free and takes you 2-3 minutes and makes your arrival better (eventually leading to e-gates in future).

Were the same "goons" responsible for bringing in electronic pre-arrival forms in Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Israel, Belize, The UK, The EU, Jamaica etc etc.

You lot don't half make mountains out of tiny tiny molehills.

I've been traveling for more than half a century and trust me, 50 years ago there was not even 10% of the bureaucracy anywhere which resulted in much faster processing, as less of everything was involved. 

Today, apart from removing belts and - anytime soon undies as well, you might wonder, what those authorities will invent next to make traveling more tedious?

What do they do with all that data. It does not prevent crime, mischief, it does not provide vital quality data for the host country? Which European country has such landing/departure cards and if not, WHY not? 

It is not only TM6, if you are interested then query the need of duplicated TM2, TM3 and TM4 when traveling overland by car; they still insist (we're taking about car travels) on passenger lists, crew lists as well as the call sign apart from the car plate registration, colour of vehicle, engine and chassis number. Needless to say, that these forms, as said in A4-duplicates, are not even looked at; just collected on departure (and the second copy on arrival) without even looking at the date. 

[stevenl]

22 hours ago, Guderian said:

It probably works better than the official Thai version! lol

So the official version isn't working properly?

[josephbloggs]

6 hours ago, Sydebolle said:

I've been traveling for more than half a century and trust me, 50 years ago there was not even 10% of the bureaucracy anywhere which resulted in much faster processing, as less of everything was involved. 

Today, apart from removing belts and - anytime soon undies as well, you might wonder, what those authorities will invent next to make traveling more tedious?
 

 

50 years ago people hadn't started bombing planes. Personally I am ok to queue in security for five minutes if it makes my journey safer. Of course that wasn't as strict before 9/11 either. It's not invented to make your life more tedious is it, that's just being silly.

And the new generation of scanners are much quicker - no need to take off belt, watch, no need to empty your pockets, and no need to take your laptop out of your bag. So they have invented something to make it less tedious.

 

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What do they do with all that data. It does not prevent crime, mischief, it does not provide vital quality data for the host country? Which European country has such landing/departure cards and if not, WHY not? 

 

Erm, all of them are about to. EES comes in this year and next year you'll have to do ETIAS and you'll even have to pay for that.

 

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It is not only TM6, if you are interested then query the need of duplicated TM2, TM3 and TM4 when traveling overland by car; they still insist (we're taking about car travels) on passenger lists, crew lists as well as the call sign apart from the car plate registration, colour of vehicle, engine and chassis number. Needless to say, that these forms, as said in A4-duplicates, are not even looked at; just collected on departure (and the second copy on arrival) without even looking at the date. 

 

Ah, so now it's just a general rant as you think you shouldn't need documents to do things. Ok, let it all out.

[Sydebolle]

1 minute ago, josephbloggs said:

 

50 years ago people hadn't started bombing planes. Personally I am ok to queue in security for five minutes if it makes my journey safer. Of course that wasn't as strict before 9/11 either. It's not invented to make your life more tedious is it, that's just being silly.

And the new generation of scanners are much quicker - no need to take off belt, watch, no need to empty your pockets, and no need to take your laptop out of your bag. So they have invented something to make it less tedious.

 

 

Erm, all of them are about to. EES comes in this year and next year you'll have to do ETIAS and you'll even have to pay for that.

 

 

Ah, so now it's just a general rant as you think you shouldn't need documents to do things. Ok, let it all out.

I would reply in detail if your writing would make any sense and would be related to the original subject 8-) 

[josephbloggs]

16 minutes ago, Sydebolle said:

I would reply in detail if your writing would make any sense and would be related to the original subject 8-) 

It has nothing to do with the original subject, it was just replying to your nonsensical points which had nothing to do with the original topic.