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Beware: Hindu Fortune Teller Scammer


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Not sure if he is alone or with a group but I was just sitting in Starbucks at the gate and was the target of a roaming Hindu fortune teller.

He was trying to convince me of his holiness by showing me photos of himself sitting in a meditative position wearing only a cloth diaper with 'holy' markings painted on him.

When he took the seat across from me he immediately started telling me he was a vessel of god and god told him to talk to me. God also told him he should tell me my future...for a dontation of course.

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Perhaps he's employed by the manager to deter folk using the coffee shop as their office at minimal expense whistling.gif

At the price that Starbucks charges for coffee maybe they hire the guy for entertainment value. Everyone knows there are beggers who have any one of a million stories and schemes.

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I got told by local friends that there are falang scammers here just walking about asking to borrow cash.

Sounds odd but believable.

Oh! there are Farang Scammers about,one time in Nongkai a German approached me,outside of Tesco's,said his wallet had been stolen,and said he was waiting for his friend to come up from Pattaya to bring him some money,and could I kindly give him 10 baht for a bottle of water. I gave him all the change I had..about 80 or 90 baht,an hour later I saw him walking away from an ATM stuffing notes in his wallet. Apparently this is his normal pitch outside Tescos Nongkai,looking out for Farangs,the trick is he only asks for a bottle of water,which of course will be given, and much more in some cases.

Not the first Farang scammer I have come across.

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I got told by local friends that there are falang scammers here just walking about asking to borrow cash.

Sounds odd but believable.

Oh! there are Farang Scammers about,one time in Nongkai a German approached me,outside of Tesco's,said his wallet had been stolen,and said he was waiting for his friend to come up from Pattaya to bring him some money,and could I kindly give him 10 baht for a bottle of water. I gave him all the change I had..about 80 or 90 baht,an hour later I saw him walking away from an ATM stuffing notes in his wallet. Apparently this is his normal pitch outside Tescos Nongkai,looking out for Farangs,the trick is he only asks for a bottle of water,which of course will be given, and much more in some cases.

Not the first Farang scammer I have come across.

I wonder if he does this for fun or just for the cash? Such a strange scenario.

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I got told by local friends that there are falang scammers here just walking about asking to borrow cash.

Sounds odd but believable.

Oh! there are Farang Scammers about,one time in Nongkai a German approached me,outside of Tesco's,said his wallet had been stolen,and said he was waiting for his friend to come up from Pattaya to bring him some money,and could I kindly give him 10 baht for a bottle of water. I gave him all the change I had..about 80 or 90 baht,an hour later I saw him walking away from an ATM stuffing notes in his wallet. Apparently this is his normal pitch outside Tescos Nongkai,looking out for Farangs,the trick is he only asks for a bottle of water,which of course will be given, and much more in some cases.

Not the first Farang scammer I have come across.

I wonder if he does this for fun or just for the cash? Such a strange scenario.

Me too! there's no accounting for people,a friend of mine has a Thai girl who can't stop herself from stealing something off his friends when they go socialising at their houses in particular,most embarressing for him. Why he puts up with her nobody knows?

And as for me the eternal soft touch,much as I hate to admit it : iv'e been ripped off a few times by Farangs,who I tried to help,who made themselves scarce, when it came to pay back time,so much for aquaintances/casual friends.

Maybe Karma is paying me back for the time, much to my shame I passed along a river bank not far out of Nong Kai,and there was a poor young woman and her baby,just a pair of living skeletons,I assumed perhaps in the last stages of AIDS or maybe some other Tropical disease which I don't know about,money wasn't important to me,I could easily have afforded to see them both have a comfortable end,and all I did was pass them by, in my horror. How I wish I could turn the clock back................

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I got told by local friends that there are falang scammers here just walking about asking to borrow cash.

Sounds odd but believable.

Seen / experienced that before.

Some years back there was a French lady, perhaps late thirties with two farang kids in tow, regularly over several years stopping farang on South Sathorn Road, outside the Alliance France complex asking for cash.

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What was the 'scam'? unsure.png

Exactly, he offered a service for a fee. You either buy into it or not, there's a lot of people that buy into fortune telling, which doesn't really make it a scam. A scam is when you don't know you're being scammed and lose money in the process.

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I must be the most gullible person out there, cos I get scammed all the time. Quite cunning though, this is how it works: I go into a bar and girls offer to sell me drinks and I accept. It must be some sort of hypnotism as every time they come by and ask me if I want another one I keep accepting, to the point where I forget the rest of the night. It's not just Thailand, but every country I have been to it happens to me. Be careful out there.

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I got told by local friends that there are falang scammers here just walking about asking to borrow cash.

Sounds odd but believable.

Yes, there are. There are at least a couple of farangs in town that will approach Western tourists and tell them that they just got mugged and their passport & wallet was stolen, and then make an emotional appeal along the lines of "could you help me out with a few baht until I get some money wired over from the States?"

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Not too many years ago in my old stomping ground, I used to see a few ladies wander from bar to bar with their pack of cards to do readings for the bar girls. The girls only invested for the answer to one question usually “will I get a customer today?”


Ok, I think I can do that; so on the subsequent trip I brought my tarot cards and began to offer “readings” for 100bt. And for that I would email them a full past; present and future synopsis. Many were told they would be lucky that evening but it was a sure fire bet when I collected 1000bt that one of them would be lucky.

So if you see a tarot card man and its not me, then you are probably being conned.

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I must be the most gullible person out there,

fascinating fact: gullible isn't even in the dictionary

Your dictionary might be missing a few pages

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gullible

cheesy.gifcheesy.gifcheesy.gif I knew several gullible people would check; but to announce it to everyone on here cheesy.gifcheesy.gifcheesy.gif

the old ones are the best eh,eh,eh

doesn't take much to amuse you. Glad I made your day.

I look stuff up by reflex even if I think I know the answer. Helps me avoid assumptive invalid logic.

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A fortune teller scamming someone, next thing you will try to tell me is that palm readers are a scam also

so these four fortune tellers and palm readers who set up outside cmu on suthep road every day and this astrologists shop are all scammers ?

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I got told by local friends that there are falang scammers here just walking about asking to borrow cash.

Sounds odd but believable.

Yes, there are. There are at least a couple of farangs in town that will approach Western tourists and tell them that they just got mugged and their passport & wallet was stolen, and then make an emotional appeal along the lines of "could you help me out with a few baht until I get some money wired over from the States?"

American?

I've never run into any American's doing this, but have encountered a couple of Aussies.

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telling me he was a vessel of god and god told him to talk to me.

I would have asked him to pour me a coffee before he goes much further

I would ask him for the first prize winning ticket numbers for the coming lottery draw...and to wait for me at the same spot on the result day so that i can donate generously...tongue.png

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