i dont know where to start with this..... thai women have no morals. my last thaigirlfriend would sell her mother to get money. nasty people.

I think you may be generalising a bit there. There are bad ones for sure and this looks like it's one of them but there are good Thai women out there. At least that's what my Thai wife tells me.

This kind of thing makes it difficult for honest Thai women as it gives the a bad name in the same way that honest farangs get a bad name when one of them isn't honest.

True...but it seems you have to turn over a lot of bad apples before finding a good one....albiet fun

The only reason to give any woman any money is to get her to leave, not to stay!

Good luck to him, I hope he gets his money back, or at least some of it, well maybe a little. Seriously, with an Australian news network getting involved it may also garner interest in other countries, I wonder what TAT will do to counter the bad press over this one, and all the other accounts that will surely come to light as a result of the international media coverage.

Thailand has a lot more serious image problems than some guy being conned out of 15m baht.

There have been a number of programs in Australia highlighting scams, issues in Thailand, international dating sites, emails out of Nigeria saying you have XXXX, please send X to release the funds etc etc. It is estimated more than a billion dollars a year are lost by Australian citizens to these scams yet it continues year after year and Australian visitors to Thailand also increases year after year

If the above numbers are correct, it is not Thailand with an image problem, but Australian men!

and Aussie women

Jesus wept she's a munter into the bargain...... I cannot fathom how good she musta been in the sack for him to hand over the dosh.

You read my mind! <deleted> didn't even get blown senseless by a stunner with a huge set of plastic fantastics for his lolly.

Not that looks are everything, but you are more likely to give a gal with her looks 30 baht for yer som tam or noodles, than 12mill for a company and 3 mill for a sin sot.

Mmm food for thought...onion soup anyone... ..... .... but I think he is .... ...... If they catch her..... her up and.... ...don't cryfor me ...... ....??????? BULLxxxx.

if he is successful , i can see about 40,000 other claims coming in !

He may be successful. Depends on how many layers he has the patience and resources to peel off. He is an Onion farmer. Went to the police with his lawyer and interpreter. Time to add a bodyguard.

what annoys me is as soon as these stories come out there are flood of comments about a fool and his money . another dumb westerner etc. women the world over can be capable of conning men, ask the many divorsees you see here that have been taken to the cleaners by an ex wife.

At some point if you want to live with a loved one you have to take a stand and lay some trust in her . Sure this seemingly unregulated country sees more than its fair share of cheated men mainly due to men falling for prostituets but it also has its success stories...

I hope the Law take this seriously it might set a precedent for the future . If these wrong uns get penalized properly maybe it just might start to reduce the horror stories. but to mock, wont do a thing...

i dont know where to start with this..... thai women have no morals. my last thaigirlfriend would sell her mother to get money. nasty people.

Every last one of them, eh? Based on experience resulting from your self-confessed inability to judge character?

When are the moderators going to start enforcing the forum rules on racist hate posts from bitter old fools?

The weird thing with the many cases like this is that if you ask the clown..'would you have done the very same thing with a lady of your own country," the answer is invariably NO!! Bah farang...

his lawyer and the ex girlfriend are no doubt hatching plans as we type to milk him out of another couple of million

The fact of the matter is that many Australian farmers are as dumb as rocks. He must have considerable land holding to generate the sort of cash he has blown on the Thai girl. Given current prices in Australia there is no way that he purchased this land himself...He inherited it from his dad...or his grandfather.

Cashed up and as dumb as a rock...every Tirraks dream man

Inheritance is not a guarantee of intellect or prudence. Actually, in most cases, it is entirely opposite...

Good on him for filing FRAUD charges because that is exactly what it is and if more guys filed charges then the problem might not be so bad as it is.

Anywhere else in the world it would be prosecuted and so should it here.

i don't know the particulars, but how is it fraud if he has no contract and she is in sole control of the business?

if the money cant be shown to have gone into the business and instead was spent on herself I think that would count as fraud.

wait who pays a sin sod to get engaged? you don't. he got scammed she should go to jail.

Hope he wins its about time someone stood up to these thieving bitches. They sicken me they go pray Buddha, then they go do the opposite of his teaching. As I have said one million time money is their God. The problem is they will drag him in and out of court and it will end up costing him more than he will get back. They sure know how to screw us and the Thai government give them all the weapons to do it. Good Luck to you Oozy farmer.

Actually Thailand is like an onion,the more layers you peel off, the more you cry...lol

Oh, if only he had been a ThaiVisa reader he might have avoided it all!

I just hope he wins so I can LMFAO. It's still pretty funny that he got on a plane just to screw her, so to speak.

Sadly he wont win the case, Hopefully he will prove me wrong. I was asked to buy land for rubber tree in Nong Khai in 2005 from my Ex girlfriend's mother, i told em that to give me few days to decide, so i instead bought two condos without telling my ex. Today, I am alone with two condos still under my name. I was lucky. NEVER NEVER REVEAL YOUR WEALTH TO ANY THAIS, LET THEM THINK YOU ARE WORTH MORE ALIVE THAN BEING DEAD POOR.

Thai system, as you can see it every day. Honesty is a thing which not exists in this country. I am sure the Thai legal system will find a way to protect the conning woman and accuse the Australian farmer, because he is a farang.

Bad news, he is a minority shareholder and the board approved her actions. End of story. next time go to a big American law firm and let them handle it instead of the local crooked lawyer.

I have one in Phayao they can go arrest too... can we join a sad ripped off old man' club?

Maybe you can all get together and file a class action.

For a Class action , you would need a Fotball Stadium ,a big one,, is 100 of thousands of the foregners that done and doing same mistake. Probaly half of the thai avisa commenting people jhas done simular stupid tings , maybe just in a smaller scale..

I have one in Phayao they can go arrest too... can we join a sad ripped off old man' club?

YES if you can prove she lied(tricked) you into giving her money and have bank records then yes you can make a case against her.

Oh, if only he had been a ThaiVisa reader he might have avoided it all!

What a fantastic response; but I bet there are still those who read such stories and still get caught. As cons go Thai woman are the best in the world; there should indeed be a film perhaps called STING 2.

There's only one way to date a Thai lady... drag it out of a bar, use it, pay and kick it out. I do feel sorry for the guy as matters of the heart often rule the head and so many of us have been there. We all like to think that our Thai girlfriends or wives wouldn't do it to us - until it happens.

Good on him for filing FRAUD charges because that is exactly what it is and if more guys filed charges then the problem might not be so bad as it is.

Anywhere else in the world it would be prosecuted and so should it here.

i don't know the particulars, but how is it fraud if he has no contract and she is in sole control of the business?

if the money cant be shown to have gone into the business and instead was spent on herself I think that would count as fraud.

Fraud case will turn on the facts. Was the numpty farmer even a director of the company...My guess is no given his manifest stupidity...

The net result here will be that in additional to his original loss he will also be taken to the cleaners with Thai legal costs.

Transam. He's a good HOUSEKEEPER then.

I feel so sorry for the bloke letting his dx"qk rule his head like that. He is obviously a successful business-man.

How much do you think he will get back?

Sinsot and operating expenses. My guess he is getting nothing back. Another fool was departed of his money,

It it floats, flies, or xxxxx.... rent it.

If she failed to answer the summons three times, she would be arrested.

...got to love the Thai legal system, anywhere else in the world if a summons is issued and you dont answer it there is an arrest warrant out for you the first time around

BUT, perhaps she paid off the first two/three thingy's. .................... .

Thai police don't like to pressure fellow Thai's to accomplish something ASAP...gotta give them plenty of time.

He can kiss that money good bye and the money he will spending on his lawyer, interperter, and their travel expenses as well

He should go the Thai route rather than the Farang one (and he obviously still has the money to afford it to fly over with a lawyer etc),

after all,2 Aussie lads shot the wrong guys in Pats recently and waltzed out the door a couple of days later(my mind's still boggled by that!),

there's plenty of Aus ex SAS lads at a loose end at the moment who'd pop over with him for a holiday.,

I don't usually think like this,but either he does it the nasty way or I don't fancy his chances of surviving his courageous stand.

Good luck to him and bad to her regardless.

Transam. He's a good HOUSEKEEPER then.

I feel so sorry for the bloke letting his dx"qk rule his head like that. He is obviously a successful business-man.

How much do you think he will get back?

Zero, He may win something ,, but he will never collect