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sydney
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07/08/2009 10:40 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 1 of 10 in Discussion |
| Tourists warned of Thailand airport scam
Tony then took Ms Lin to an ATM machine and told her to withdraw as much as she could from her own account - £600. He then withdrew the equivalent of £3,400 from his own account.
According to Mr Ingram this was then handed over to the police, and they were both forced to sign a number of papers.
Later they were allowed to move to a squalid hotel within the airport perimeter, but their passports were held and they were warned not to leave or try to contact a lawyer or their embassy.
"I will be watching you," Tony told them, adding that they would have to stay there until the £8,000 was transferred into Tony's account.
On the Monday they managed to sneak out and get a taxi to Bangkok, and met an official at the British Embassy.
She gave the name of a Thai lawyer, and, says Mr Ingram, told them they were being subjected to a classic Thai scam called the "zig-zag".
Rest of the article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8154497.stm
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negativenick
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Tenakoutou
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08/08/2009 18:43 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 3 of 10 in Discussion |
| Close to the throbbing metropolis of Bangkok is.... ah, Phucket - don't think I'll go there! |
Brinsley
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| Roy
It all happens in the great awash!
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Hector
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08/08/2009 19:13 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 5 of 10 in Discussion |
| Best we don't go to Thailand then. If you have to then best not shop at Bangkok airport although this terrible scam could be worked on you at any shop in Thailand. |
Brinsley
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| The ones that sell ping pong balls?!
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frontalman
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09/08/2009 12:52 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 7 of 10 in Discussion |
| Sounds really scary. How did Gary Robb cope? I won't be eating any Thai food for a while as a protest! |
Glynn
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09/08/2009 14:18 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 8 of 10 in Discussion |
| Man who go through turnstile sideways is going to Bangcock! |
Tenakoutou
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| Glynn: Confucious also say - 'Woman who fly upsidedown in aeroplane have crack up.' |
smithy
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09/08/2009 15:05 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 10 of 10 in Discussion |
| Can I say
That I went to Thailand for a month in March
and Bangkok Airport shops/duty free etc was to die for, I had no problems and travelling alone I felt very safe they were so helpful, I feel sorry for what happened to the other couple,
But by my own experience I can say Thailand is beautiful, the people were the most welcoming, what a place.
Did not feel threatened at all
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