Thailand gets tough of jet ski scammers

[3NUMBAS]

confiscate all the boats and trash them like the bootleg software and fake watches its the only way to get on top of them

[sapson]

Maybe some brave tv member and Pattaya resident should pop down to the beach camera in hand over the weekend and video a couple of scams playing out.

Send the evidence to tat and the Mayors facebook page and all importantly forwarded to the NCPO head honcho 56 star general whatever his name is and await a response and wait and wait and wait and wait.

I note that thaivisa had a lot of clout in being able to talk directly to immigration officials in BKK and get a response a fine achievement,perhaps as a representative of both tourists and expats alike they could email NCPO with any recent evidence that could be submitted, however would this risk the future existence of this site?

Please don't recommend others to do this. It is very dangerous and there are plenty of videos about this already up on YouTube.

Point taken, but the situation is outrageous and if the evidence albeit previous youtube videos or victim statements were presented to the NCPO by a relevant high profile organisation or person maybe they would act.??

The tourist police should disband and withdraw their labour until they are allowed to actually protect tourists in these jetski scam circumstances...................and communicate clearly to the NCPO why they are refusing to operate leaving the resorts without tourist police cover.

If the scammers are to be allowed to continue with impunity.................maybe they could be provided with on site credit card readers and the hapless victims can just sign and go and this will save the scammers the bother of escorting them to the atm machine!

[Chicog]

The tourist police should disband and withdraw their labour until they are allowed to actually protect tourists in these jetski scam circumstances

Tourist police... Protect tourists..... Jetski Scam.....

Oh lord.

[sapson]

The tourist police should disband and withdraw their labour until they are allowed to actually protect tourists in these jetski scam circumstances

Tourist police... Protect tourists..... Jetski Scam.....

Oh lord.

The notion of the Tourist police actually helping ..............producing side splitting hilarity kind of sums it up!

I really wonder who the boss of the TP is and what his official stance is ? minor spats in bars or a bit of late night brawling ok we can help!! getting ripped off for thousands of baht by the jetski scammers ...............sorry but we,ll do nothing! but we do have a desk on walking street if you are lost and need to know the way to happyhookers a gogo!

[phanangpete]

I heard a story a few years ago in Pattaya, two Russian brothers rented two jet skis out for half hour, their mother was sitting watching from the beach.

After they had come back in the thai's who rented them started the scam, they wanted 40,000 bht for damages saying they had collided (which ofcourse they had'nt).

The mother was taking photo's of the skis and the scammers and after after a lot of deliberation she got the price down to twenty thou and duly paid up.

She then with her sons went back to her brothers restaurant in Jomptien, he apparently was a well known guy , once he heard the story the next day he arranged for two staff members to go down and rent one of the same scammers.

He told them to drive it round the coast to a particular location ,yep, on the rocks and poured petrol on it and lit it up !

I would of loved to have seen the faces on those scammers when they eventually found it.

[soihok]

The police are in on it, unless they don't get their cut that is.