French speaking female scam artist Bangkok - part 2

#9 I'm not doubting anything. I just don't see the practical point of memorizing or carrying around a mug-shot of someone, especially for a "scam" as lame as "give me some money".

And to repeat ... it's much more practical to advise on common sense in general, and then apply the common sense principles. Otherwise, why limit to just one dodgy French person? I bet a person could wander around Bangkok for weeks without ever dealing with the person - maybe months (not that the average person stays for more than a few days). If the the principle is to warn about known particular criminals, then better to carry around a file of a few thousand panhandlers around SE Asia, just to be on the safe side.

I can see it now: take photos of people you see, load them into a laptop with face-recognition software and criminal data-base, as a security check.

I thought my answer in the original thread was most apt and related to the discussion.

If you don't want to be duped then DON'T LEND A STRANGER MONEY

Simple

Now have yourself an asprin and a good lie down.

If you don't want to be duped then DON'T LEND A STRANGER MONEY

Exactly. Simple. That covers everything, not just the one person.

#11 - Your glib comments - "a scam as lame as give me some money" - would neither assuage anyone who finds himself out of pocket to the tune of Bahts 20,000 in this manner nor do anything constructive in spreading awareness amongst innumerable potential targets who might happen to read these threads/internet and remember. I find that your screed contains, for the most part, peripheral red herrings dressed up as sound advice for the masses and little else. No doubt 40-million Frenchmen will be very grateful to you for telling them what they already know. Thank-you.

#14 My comment about lame scams wasn't advice, it was an observation. Try reading post #12 again. That's the relevant advice.

For the rest of the post,calm down and write that again in plan English. I get the impression you're trying to say something insulting to me, but it doesn't come across.

Whine,

I don't understand what you are whining about. In your previous post, you asked this forum whether any people here was a victim too. From their replies, it is obviously none as one poster did point out 10,000 bahts go a long way lasting maybe a week... and would not be easy to pry 10,000 bahts from them.

And here in 2nd thread, you said you know a victim who gave 20,000 bahts and gave more info on the french lady. So what is it with the "a serious and genuine attempt to garner information"?

As in #3: Why do you want to know, whine? Who are you?
It is in reference to your "let us know if you have been duped" request.

Edited by: nyamukhunter

After a few back-and-forth Thorn Tree punches, I prefer some good ol' Tom & Jerry fighting. There's always Pepe Le Pew if you despise hairy armpitted odoriferous French mademoiselles ;-)
Chill out dudes.

whine - it's pretty clear that you are the one that gave this woman 20,000 baht, and now are posting this "scam warning" as a way of convincing yourself that you were scammed by a slick professional, rather than accepting that you were naive and a bit foolish.

Accept your loss, and accept the fact that you aren't going to find anyone else that did the same to share your misery, and move on.

I'd term it a nice effort, he's scammed and he's trying to save others, so we all should appreciate that.

Ciao,

I agree. The post is not for or about people who think they are too clever to fall for this madame.
It’s a warning to people who may fall for her charm and give her the benefit of doubt.
While she is not really a criminal, her modus operandi should not be encouraged, even if she can’t be stopped.