Stevey

Great insight

I don’t remember working with you in the 90’s … let’s get this straight. You ignore all unknown numbers ( a number that you don’t know like a delivery guy on in the next village with a jumbo sized pizza you’ve just ordered ). If you ignore the unknown numbers how do you know they are telling you a package is enroute ? What if that unknown number is telling you that they are in the next village with a COD Cash on Delivery package ? Kerry won’t even come to you if you don’t pick up. Also I think we are establishing that picking up the phone is not the danger it’s listening to a fake story and executing their instructions. Or opening an executable file on your device. The point of my question is that all of Thailand is not picking up the phone to anybody they don’t know in fear that as soon as they do a fraudster will access their phone and that all the money gone. I even to it myself coz more often than not it is an automated voice. I recently wanted to buy some really well made but old and unused sliding gates residing at a farm. Amazing I tracked the owner down to a phone number. We called and called to no avail. Later she said she was petrified to answer as she was afraid by answering an unknown number her phone would be accessed and all money in her back lost. The idiot is a teacher at the local school.

My Missus who is a total idiot. When I started to talk about this subject with as we watched a Thai news article. Admitted she had fallen for this. I remember her talking about it a couple of years ago but because she crosses the line of truth and fiction so often I don’t believe anything she says and I tell her that to. I was explaining how a member on the group i asked the question on about scams had said that they even go as far as calling you on a video call and impersonating the police. She nodded away like this happened to her. I don’t want to know her story in fear of how much of my money she lost. 😞 Btw. I’m only with her because that the only way to be with my 6year old stepson that expats always tell me “ just walk away”

Ah yes person’s is possessive so my credibility is indeed in tatters, oh well 😄

Here is a good take on it from a commenter on Reddit, where I posted the question originally but it was not published immediately so I came here to TV where I am loved and knew I would get many answers. Well one answer anyway which was great. Reddit commenter opinion. “I don't think they go this far with foreigners yet, but the Thai scams are actually surprisingly elaborate production when it comes to tricking Thai people. I'm sure as a foreigner, you are aware of the old "Hey, you hang on to this for me." and it turns out it's something illegal and you ended up in Thai prison schtick. Well, scammers know people are deathly afraid of something like this, so this is their plan: First, they know everything about you, including your Citizen ID. There's been news about banking official or insurance agents selling clients' data to these people but that's a whole other story. They will know you order something from Lazada or Shopee. They will say your package is on hold at a center because the police found there's something illegal inside. Their people will DRESS UP in police uniform, video call you, they know your Citizen ID, your address, and they will threaten you with jail, and demand that you send them money or, latest incarnation, install an app. That app is a backdoor to drain money from your mobile banking account They target the elderlies, young teenager, and white-collar criminals who has a lot to lose. They are very smart and invested, because each scam they pull give them MILLIONS OF BAHT. If you want American example, type William Brock, 81, Ohio into Google. It's in Thai news everyday for a long while. There was also some slight fear mongering. Like the victims (who range from PhD doctors to high ranking politicians to celebrities) would not admit they transferred the money willingly, or download virus app, so they make up stories about how "I just opened an email and the money in banking app was wiped out...." Which is impossible.”

Great answer. The problem is Thai people will not answer the phone because they think answering the phone can let a hacker in. The government should make a campaign saying what to do and what not to do because it’s stupid just everybody thinking they can’t answer the phone to anybody because it may be the call centre, for 4ucks sake it could be me on the phone !! but also, how are people losing money by people knowing their ID card number or address? I don’t understand this.

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Just watching the TV with my girlfriend and she was talking about these CallCenter scams and how they've just been doing a new operation called "purge". She's saying that the reason why people don't pick up their phone to a new number they don't recognise it's because they believe that just by picking the number up they can have all their information stolen and have all the money taken out of their bank account. I can't believe this. I then enlightened her on the thing that happens in Falangland in that people get called up by Indian call centres and are pumped for their information by hoodwinking them into believing they are a real bank and that's how they take their money or that they access their computer remotely with the program. I then say but this isn't everybody. It's generally people who are naive or just plain stupid. Then she let me into a bit of a secret she had in that, she had answered and actually been scammed herself and lost money. From the looks of it this is in the last couple of years while l've been with her. So my question to my beloved members so I can educate my girlfriend how are these scammers actually getting hold of their victims money? she talked about it's about ID card numbers addresses et cetera.

@theshu25 Yeah I just looked him up. Every comment is pretty nasty. I don’t agree with your idea that he is clad like. Wannabe rapper. He comes across as a genuine 5hithouse though. Can’t be a nice person to interact with. Can you imagine being his family or partners with that lot going round his head. Although I totally defend his free speech. More worryingly, too me, is his insistence that DJT the Orange Conman should be locked up. We will see or not how the people of the US think about that after a living a nightmare over the last few years of the Puppets reign and who ever is controlling him. How could the orange conman getting into power be worse than what has gone on till now ? I’m ‘an English’ if Brandon is not shown the door soon I will be sorely disappointed in the US people. Back to @theshu25 i would love to know what he’s got going on in his life. I’m building an outside kitchen.

I’m gonna look him up.

I will second that 👍

It wasn’t wasted time i enjoy a wind up.

Have you seen the Young guy yet ? He’s the poster boy. Appears to be loaded got a nice looking wife and some half breed children. I had a run in with him when he kept posting pics from his daily life but he was always in them. Eventually i couldn’t take any more and accused him of being a narcissist. I got some hate for that. He’s French I believe.

AN again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Absolute UUankers !!!!! I went away from the page to acknowledge an iPhone clock Alarm and when I went back to this ANow tab the page re-loaded and the text box I had been writing one of my much loved replies had disappeared!!!! This happened to me once when I was writing my Epic Savannahket visa run report. It had loads of funny’s in it and it all disappeared with 30 mins writing completed. Anyway in answer to your question I will not be going to that FB Group again under a new name. Although ( and this is what I wrote but just vanished ) I may check out the comment’s section on their YouTube channel if they have one. Although my issue with that is I have a problem where I can’t comment on YouTube. About a year ago I realised my nightly amusement of clicking the Bell on YouTube and seeing that I had like to my previous nights comment were gone and now all I saw was a feed of suggestions of content from my subscriptions. As somebody who comments against the grain as I have for years since the new Post Covid no borders UniParty Era has arrived YouTube just turned my comments off. It’s really weird I’m the only one who can see my comments. I have a channel of my own and people will comment on my videos so I will reply but like last night I looked at a video of mine which said it had two comments. The first comment was my friend and the 2nd comment was my reply some time back but when I looked at what my reply was it is not there anymore. It’s as if there are thousands of YouTube operatives going thru channels just deleting comments guided to the comments by particular red flagged words. It’s all very weird. More annoying is we are probably being censored by a third world countries workers. I can remember when YouTube was the free-ist place on the net. You could pretty much say what you wanted. NB. If there is a font issue, I have just copied this text from the text box of my iPhone messages so it didn’t disappear like the last epic post did