thailandist Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Not sure if he is alone or with a group but I was just sitting in Starbucks at the gate and was the target of a roaming Hindu fortune teller. He was trying to convince me of his holiness by showing me photos of himself sitting in a meditative position wearing only a cloth diaper with 'holy' markings painted on him. When he took the seat across from me he immediately started telling me he was a vessel of god and god told him to talk to me. God also told him he should tell me my future...for a dontation of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Another line they use is: You are a lucky man! Happened to me last week. I said: No, I'm not and rushed away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rasseru Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 I thank you for the warning, even though I stood not the slightest risk of succumbing to any such nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britgent Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 I got told by local friends that there are falang scammers here just walking about asking to borrow cash. Sounds odd but believable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyecatcher Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 telling me he was a vessel of god and god told him to talk to me. I would have asked him to pour me a coffee before he goes much further Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MESmith Posted March 19, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted March 19, 2013 Perhaps he's employed by the manager to deter folk using the coffee shop as their office at minimal expense 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rene123 Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Perhaps he's employed by the manager to deter folk using the coffee shop as their office at minimal expense At the price that Starbucks charges for coffee maybe they hire the guy for entertainment value. Everyone knows there are beggers who have any one of a million stories and schemes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasteddie Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 All fortune tellers are scammers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAJIC Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 (edited) I got told by local friends that there are falang scammers here just walking about asking to borrow cash. Sounds odd but believable. Oh! there are Farang Scammers about,one time in Nongkai a German approached me,outside of Tesco's,said his wallet had been stolen,and said he was waiting for his friend to come up from Pattaya to bring him some money,and could I kindly give him 10 baht for a bottle of water. I gave him all the change I had..about 80 or 90 baht,an hour later I saw him walking away from an ATM stuffing notes in his wallet. Apparently this is his normal pitch outside Tescos Nongkai,looking out for Farangs,the trick is he only asks for a bottle of water,which of course will be given, and much more in some cases. Not the first Farang scammer I have come across. Edited March 19, 2013 by MAJIC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britgent Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 I got told by local friends that there are falang scammers here just walking about asking to borrow cash. Sounds odd but believable. Oh! there are Farang Scammers about,one time in Nongkai a German approached me,outside of Tesco's,said his wallet had been stolen,and said he was waiting for his friend to come up from Pattaya to bring him some money,and could I kindly give him 10 baht for a bottle of water. I gave him all the change I had..about 80 or 90 baht,an hour later I saw him walking away from an ATM stuffing notes in his wallet. Apparently this is his normal pitch outside Tescos Nongkai,looking out for Farangs,the trick is he only asks for a bottle of water,which of course will be given, and much more in some cases. Not the first Farang scammer I have come across. I wonder if he does this for fun or just for the cash? Such a strange scenario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAJIC Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 I got told by local friends that there are falang scammers here just walking about asking to borrow cash. Sounds odd but believable. Oh! there are Farang Scammers about,one time in Nongkai a German approached me,outside of Tesco's,said his wallet had been stolen,and said he was waiting for his friend to come up from Pattaya to bring him some money,and could I kindly give him 10 baht for a bottle of water. I gave him all the change I had..about 80 or 90 baht,an hour later I saw him walking away from an ATM stuffing notes in his wallet. Apparently this is his normal pitch outside Tescos Nongkai,looking out for Farangs,the trick is he only asks for a bottle of water,which of course will be given, and much more in some cases. Not the first Farang scammer I have come across. I wonder if he does this for fun or just for the cash? Such a strange scenario. Me too! there's no accounting for people,a friend of mine has a Thai girl who can't stop herself from stealing something off his friends when they go socialising at their houses in particular,most embarressing for him. Why he puts up with her nobody knows? And as for me the eternal soft touch,much as I hate to admit it : iv'e been ripped off a few times by Farangs,who I tried to help,who made themselves scarce, when it came to pay back time,so much for aquaintances/casual friends. Maybe Karma is paying me back for the time, much to my shame I passed along a river bank not far out of Nong Kai,and there was a poor young woman and her baby,just a pair of living skeletons,I assumed perhaps in the last stages of AIDS or maybe some other Tropical disease which I don't know about,money wasn't important to me,I could easily have afforded to see them both have a comfortable end,and all I did was pass them by, in my horror. How I wish I could turn the clock back................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Semper Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 What was the 'scam'? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceChee Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Slap his parrot silly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Payboy Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 What was the 'scam'? Starbucks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorecard Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 (edited) I got told by local friends that there are falang scammers here just walking about asking to borrow cash. Sounds odd but believable. Seen / experienced that before. Some years back there was a French lady, perhaps late thirties with two farang kids in tow, regularly over several years stopping farang on South Sathorn Road, outside the Alliance France complex asking for cash. Edited March 20, 2013 by scorecard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uptheos Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 What was the 'scam'? Exactly, he offered a service for a fee. You either buy into it or not, there's a lot of people that buy into fortune telling, which doesn't really make it a scam. A scam is when you don't know you're being scammed and lose money in the process. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellodolly Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 thailandistWas he any good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurnell Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I must be the most gullible person out there, cos I get scammed all the time. Quite cunning though, this is how it works: I go into a bar and girls offer to sell me drinks and I accept. It must be some sort of hypnotism as every time they come by and ask me if I want another one I keep accepting, to the point where I forget the rest of the night. It's not just Thailand, but every country I have been to it happens to me. Be careful out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyecatcher Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I must be the most gullible person out there, fascinating fact: gullible isn't even in the dictionary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelsLariat Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 (edited) I got told by local friends that there are falang scammers here just walking about asking to borrow cash. Sounds odd but believable. Yes, there are. There are at least a couple of farangs in town that will approach Western tourists and tell them that they just got mugged and their passport & wallet was stolen, and then make an emotional appeal along the lines of "could you help me out with a few baht until I get some money wired over from the States?" Edited March 20, 2013 by AngelsLariat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CobraSnakeNecktie Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 (edited) I must be the most gullible person out there, fascinating fact: gullible isn't even in the dictionary Your dictionary might be missing a few pages http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gullible Edited March 20, 2013 by CobraSnakeNecktie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post eyecatcher Posted March 20, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted March 20, 2013 I must be the most gullible person out there, fascinating fact: gullible isn't even in the dictionary Your dictionary might be missing a few pages http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gullible I knew several gullible people would check; but to announce it to everyone on here the old ones are the best eh,eh,eh 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyecatcher Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Not too many years ago in my old stomping ground, I used to see a few ladies wander from bar to bar with their pack of cards to do readings for the bar girls. The girls only invested for the answer to one question usually “will I get a customer today?” Ok, I think I can do that; so on the subsequent trip I brought my tarot cards and began to offer “readings” for 100bt. And for that I would email them a full past; present and future synopsis. Many were told they would be lucky that evening but it was a sure fire bet when I collected 1000bt that one of them would be lucky. So if you see a tarot card man and its not me, then you are probably being conned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CobraSnakeNecktie Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I must be the most gullible person out there, fascinating fact: gullible isn't even in the dictionary Your dictionary might be missing a few pages http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gullible I knew several gullible people would check; but to announce it to everyone on here the old ones are the best eh,eh,eh doesn't take much to amuse you. Glad I made your day. I look stuff up by reflex even if I think I know the answer. Helps me avoid assumptive invalid logic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsokolowski Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 A fortune teller scamming someone, next thing you will try to tell me is that palm readers are a scam also? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave2 Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 re A fortune teller scamming someone, next thing you will try to tell me is that palm readers are a scam also so these four fortune tellers and palm readers who set up outside cmu on suthep road every day and this astrologists shop are all scammers ? bugger dave2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARISTIDE Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 this astrologists shop are all scammers ? bugger dave2 Why... what have you done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uptheos Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I got told by local friends that there are falang scammers here just walking about asking to borrow cash. Sounds odd but believable. Yes, there are. There are at least a couple of farangs in town that will approach Western tourists and tell them that they just got mugged and their passport & wallet was stolen, and then make an emotional appeal along the lines of "could you help me out with a few baht until I get some money wired over from the States?" American? I've never run into any American's doing this, but have encountered a couple of Aussies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuang Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 telling me he was a vessel of god and god told him to talk to me. I would have asked him to pour me a coffee before he goes much further I would ask him for the first prize winning ticket numbers for the coming lottery draw...and to wait for me at the same spot on the result day so that i can donate generously... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unwisemonkey Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 You should have told him god does not exist and therefore he is an empty vessel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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