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[mik]

Never saw this in Pattaya but when I was in Phuket,I twice had farangs trying to give out these scratch cards,I listened for a bit to one of these assholes.You scratch the card and of course you win a prize.They then want you to go somewhere to get this prize,and when you get there they "give" you 5000 baht all you have to do is give them your credit card number.Really if anyone was dumb enough to fall for this they probably deserve to lose their money.
I can handle the endless Thai touts and even the friendly tailors ,but expats trying to scam tourists really pisses me off.

Edited by mik, 30 August 2010 - 03:20 PM.

[69billy]

I think all that is link to some kind of timeshare selling shit...But I could be wrong..

[ArthurDent]

well i still have an old credit card ... nothing attached to the number ... maybe i should take this card with me

[Beerlao]

Perhaps you could get one of those travellers credit cards from thomson or thomas cook and have almost nothing on it !
These cards don't even have your name on them - it just says 'traveller'
they work auite well though and you can book things online as well as usning in a shop !!

[Bolton Beast]

69billy, on 30 August 2010 - 03:58 PM, said:

I think all that is link to some kind of timeshare selling shit...But I could be wrong..

your not far off Billy its some daft holiday club rubbish that the rubes will fall for who have 2 weeks with 1st Choice a year.

[robw]

I've had them approach me but I just ignore them.

[Ringspun]

I gave some vendors 5 mins of my time, had scratch cards that I didn't win, then they gave me another to "try again" I did win and they were jumping up and down lol, apparantly no one wins they say, then they try to get me to go in taxi to some hotel to "Claim" my prize, like fuck... I just walked....

No such thing as a free meal and if its too good to be true... then you know the answer

[mucevoli]

Ringspun, on 09 October 2010 - 11:42 PM, said:

I gave some vendors 5 mins of my time, had scratch cards that I didn't win, then they gave me another to "try again" I did win and they were jumping up and down lol, apparantly no one wins they say, then they try to get me to go in taxi to some hotel to "Claim" my prize, like fuck... I just walked....

No such thing as a free meal and if its too good to be true... then you know the answer

I had the same thing. They started off asking me to do a survey and I thought, why not. Asked me questions about my age, where I was staying and for how long etc. Then they handed over the cards and it was exactly as you describe. Surprise surpirse I won the Star prize, a free holiday. When I told them I didn't want it they acted surpirsed "But this is the star prize, It's very valuable". So I told them "It's your lucky day then, I'm giving it to you as a present".

[Ringspun]

Way I see it, in Thailand they ain't gonna give fuck all for free lol

[Up2You]

The way I see it

Anyone approaching you anywhere and offering you a chance at something for nothing or a small price for something wonderful is to be ignored and passed without one wasted word, or second, of your precious time.

The only exception I can thing of.. is when you are approached by a LB.