that's why you have to try before you buy

"pretending to be someone else." Now I would have to see the law against this one. Every girl I ever met in every bar I have been in, in Thailand is pretending to be someone else.

Didn't the guy wonder what his birds todger was..........

I just choked myself because that photo of the lady boy was so bad I could not take it

Tomorrow I will try and wash out my eyes

This has been a very bad experience

The poor guy was shafted three time.... no lady, no money and no face... aha...

why dose it sound so familiar?... :-(

errr...it could have been worse.... shafted 4 times.....

Ouch!

Glad the Police found something important to do!

So I get that lots of we farang leave our brains at the Immigration Counter at the Airport, but where did thisn poor local leave his brain?

With the placenta.

"Hey, you're not a ladyboy! You're just a guy dressed up as one!"

I'm glad to hear that it's not only the farangs that are naive and gullible but also happens to the Thais.

Rejoice my friends, you never gonna be alone

It is more depressing to learn the locals are much better prospects financially these days.

Some are well------just born losers.

Imho this story is more closely related to the Nigerian Prince Wabubu type of email scams, than it is related to transvestism, or the remarkably law-abiding behaviour seen in the vast majority of the transgender community. It is a serial-offender using false promises to con gullible people out of their life savings, very similar to the promises of Wabubu & Co to give you billions in gold if you just forward him a few hundred grand first.

Both scams are cruel and exploit the most basic human needs, the need to get money or the need to feel loved. I see the ladyboy/transvestite aspect as entirely incidental to the scam, it could just as easily have been a natal female using genuine photos to scam the guy out of his money.

But also I don't blame the victim for being fooled, if anything his behaviour was normal, he just wanted to be in love with a nice wife, and start a family. The con-artist was very cruel to exploit this man's natural impulses, and I hope that the sentencing will reflect this callousness and cruelty.

I am wrong..or the post do not said "a Thai man".... with that name can be from other countries too....I do not believe that a Thai man will be so stupid in dealing with a Thai "woman". All the contrary.

I was expecting the 'Impostor ladyboy" to have actually been a woman

That's what I thought too.

If it's not a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman, 'impostor ladyboy' is redundant.

I have seen ladyboys that I thought were legitimately women. But, they have been stupendously beautiful. I have never heard of a local being fooled.

Nonetheless, am amusing story about a fool and his money!

I would be upset too. if my ladyboy turned out to be a girl.

My favorite drinking game in Thailand is just sitting at an outdoor bar, and taking a shot everytime a ladyboy walks by.

I seem to play this game by myself for some reason.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe!

Albert Einstein

Not just Farangs are fooled.

From the mugshot/ID card photo it looks like (s)he is wearing coloured contacts.

I'm surprised you're allowed to take an ID photo with fake-coloured eyes - not exactly reliable for identification purposes is it?

I bet that if he had resricted himself to cheating Fareng, it would have gone on for many years. He might have even become rich.

How can you be an imposter ladyboy?

A ladyboy is just a bloke pretending to be a woman.

Some are pretty and some look like the walking dead.

'Imposter' as in the person running the scam was pretending to be an entirely different person. The fact that they include the descriptor 'ladyboy' is immaterial.

True transgenders are not 'pretending'.

Some men/women/transgenders are pretty and some look like the walking dead.

Jeez, a Thai falling for this sham/scam, thick as a brick. What do they say about fools being parted from their money ?

Thanatcha was charged with violating the Computer Crime Act and pretending to be someone else.

A 500 baht fine, or two days in prison. or both. Or nothing.

What? And he hadn't even got to the sick buffalo....

Well its not just the Thai lady that gets turned over by the Africans, As soon as he or she asked for that amount to buy a ring he should have known, at the very latest, Oh well join the list of Thousands of Farang that have had the same done to them, but mostly by real women

If your average smart Thai guy has this kind of money to spend to find a partner, god help the cheap Charlie farang,,but seriously I find the whole story hard to believe, all the cute young hookers on every street corner. And he has ??? And sends 600,000 baht plus for a ring to a face on the Internet, story is a joke or the Thai guy needs serious medication.

Stella story...numpty and Juliet

herr goebels convinced a lot of people of a lot of things using the media.