Hello everyone! I’d like to alert that a very similar version of the zig zag scam happened to me and my bf in the middle of the street in Bangkok last week.
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Hello everyone! I’d like to alert that a very similar version of the zig zag scam happened to me and my bf in the middle of the street in Bangkok last week.
Two guys (foreigners, not Thai) approached us in the middle of the street at 8PM and accused us of stealing their shoes at a temple. They had “CCTV” footage of us (yes the footage they showed us it was clearly us) walking around the temple and used that to scare us. We didn’t steal anything so we ignored them and kept walking and they followed us! They followed us into a supermarket and started filming us with their phones and even grabbed our arms to tell us “we were going to be cursed”. After following us for a while they told us to wait for the police to arrive. Thankfully we just kept walking, went into the sky train and avoided the scam.
So what’s the scam?
They acuse you of stealing and call a fake police, the fake police arrives and makes you pay a fine for stealing. That’s how they scam you! Another possible way they scam you is that they annoy you so freaking much that you decide to just give them money for new shoes. Please don’t do that!
What about the CCTV footage?
It’s a montage! There is a third guy filming you walking (before they approach you) from the skyline and that footage is edited to a background of what seems to be a temple.
Trust no one in Bangkok!! Be careful and enjoy your vacation.
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