Need Something Notarized

[girlx]

i was robbed in samui over the weekend (nice place that chaweng) and have to file disputes with my bank for the transactions the robbers put on my card... i have to get the dispute form notarized before mailing it- anyone have any idea where i can do that on koh phangan?

[Samui Coconut]

Would be interested to find out where and how you were robbed and also what time of day. Did you check already where transactions took place ? Guess it was a credit card ?!?. Do you have a police report ? Did you cancel your card after you have been robbed immediately ?

[Dragonman]

i was robbed in samui over the weekend (nice place that chaweng) and have to file disputes with my bank for the transactions the robbers put on my card... i have to get the dispute form notarized before mailing it- anyone have any idea where i can do that on koh phangan?

I presume this is a foreign bank, not a thai one. There is no Notary Public in Thailand. Normally foreign Companies will accept a certified lawyer's signature if you explain the situation, or they may send you along to the Embassy.

[girlx]

my friend and i flopped exhausted at 'best beach bungalows' (snort) on chaweng at about 8p on friday night. we went out to grab some food and ran into a friend. we had locked our bungalow but stupidly left our valuables inside. even though they were in locked bags, someone broke in while we were gone, cut the locks, and wiped us out. i lost $1500 in cash that i had brought to samui to change into traveller's checks (can't do it on koh phangan), lost my iPod, small baht, and bank cards. they took my friend's bank cards, brand new laptop, and expensive camera. we called the police, who never showed, and called to cancel our bank cards as well. the bank told us that the robbers had already made purchases on the card from a place call 'german sport club' on chaweng. we are going to have to dispute these charges. we did find the shop and go in and talk to the (totally incompetent) staff, and managed to get copies of the forged receipts. we filed reports with both the tourist police and the local police in nathorn on our way back to phangan. neither of us has insurance, so we had very bad luck. but some robbers are going to have a very good songkran! we are both long term thailand travellers who just got complacent, and stupidly felt like our stuff would be fine for a couple of hours.

anyway i still need a notary so please let me know if you know of one.

[Samui Coconut]

Your embassy is authorized to sign off on it if you have a police report which you must have....otherwise it will be very difficult, or get a lawyer on Samui. Must have been a farrang who purchased items.......

Good luck !

[kdvsn]

my friend and i flopped exhausted at 'best beach bungalows' (snort) on chaweng at about 8p on friday night. we went out to grab some food and ran into a friend. we had locked our bungalow but stupidly left our valuables inside. even though they were in locked bags, someone broke in while we were gone, cut the locks, and wiped us out. i lost $1500 in cash that i had brought to samui to change into traveller's checks (can't do it on koh phangan), lost my iPod, small baht, and bank cards. they took my friend's bank cards, brand new laptop, and expensive camera. we called the police, who never showed, and called to cancel our bank cards as well. the bank told us that the robbers had already made purchases on the card from a place call 'german sport club' on chaweng. we are going to have to dispute these charges. we did find the shop and go in and talk to the (totally incompetent) staff, and managed to get copies of the forged receipts. we filed reports with both the tourist police and the local police in nathorn on our way back to phangan. neither of us has insurance, so we had very bad luck. but some robbers are going to have a very good songkran! we are both long term thailand travellers who just got complacent, and stupidly felt like our stuff would be fine for a couple of hours.

anyway i still need a notary so please let me know if you know of one.

I can sympathize, I was the victim of a robbery of similar scale last October when staying at the Tradewinds in Chaweng. I was fortunate in that my homeowner's insurance did cover it and though they made me wait 3 months for payment in the end they did give me a fair settlement. My insurance company accepted the police report (handwritten in Thai) as sufficent documentaiton of the incident. Your credit card company will probably eventually do so also.

I too got sloppy and should have known better. I was staying at the Tradewinds for about 3 weeks by the time the robbery happened and had stayed there a number of times before. By that time most of the hotel's staff was aware that I had a laptop computer and expensive photography equipment and that I was in the habbit of going out at night until after midnight. There were also some people outside of the hotel that were aware of these things. Yea, I was a seasoned traveller and knew better, but it seemed like a reasonable upmarket hotel that I was staying at and the hotel's security guard had his desk no futher than 25 feet from my room. Well, the night of the robbery the guard was mysteriously missing from his post and was not on the premises for the balance of the night. In this case someone very cleanly tapped out the cylinder of the door lock and left the door stuck shut when they were done robbing the room. The job that they did on the lock of the door was so cleanly done that at first I thought that the reason that I couldn't get into the room was that I must have misinserted the key in the lock and inadvertantly jammed it. And when in the room, they were very neat, went through every drawer and through the closet space, took everything of value,and closed all the drawers and closet doors ater them. I couldn't get back into the room that night because of the locked being jammed and the hotel's guard being missing and no other hotel employees seemed to be around. I thus didn't even know that I'd been robbed until the morning when the hotel staff managed to get the door opened, and even after then it took a few minutes in the room before I noticed that all my valuables were missing. Ater that, the police did show up and they did seem professional and seemed to be taking a legitmate interest in the case. I'll never be certain who set up the robbery, whether it was someone working at the hotel or somebody at one of the places I was commonly going to at night.

Edited April 11, 2006 by kdvsn

[Rooo]

Girl X, sorry about your misadventure.Just out of curiosity, when you traced the forged receipts,did they give you a description of any sort about the person that use your card?

I mean they have to check the name against the signature,so could it have been a Farang?It would look suspicious having a Thai person signing ( John Smith ) or whatever.

[girlx]

yeah i asked them and they sai "3 farangs"... but the salesgirl let them sign an American female's signature for two identical transactions for 5000b each, so it's just a bit fishy... that was actually all the money i had in my account so it seems like maybe they were trying to get it all out then- she could have been the robber's girlfriend or something and tried to distract me from looking for thais. the place was seedy- i really wouldn't be surprised if it was the staff of the bungalow. they went in immediately after we had checked in and left to eat, and they seem to have gone in with a key...

anyway, apparently there aren't really notaries in thailand FYI but i was told i can get a certified sig from a lawyer...

[Rooo]

Girl X , there must be Notaries,as Thai documentations always requires Notary seals.I will check for you with my lawyer after Songkran.

[stevehaigh]

i was robbed in samui over the weekend (nice place that chaweng) and have to file disputes with my bank for the transactions the robbers put on my card... i have to get the dispute form notarized before mailing it- anyone have any idea where i can do that on koh phangan?

i think any lawyer on the island can do it. ask Sopha, here office is on the baan thai road next the the LG place.

steve