David Ames the boss of Harlequin Property and associated companies, who has allegedly defrauded victims out of several hundred million pounds has been charged with three counts of fraud. Ames, a former bankrupt double glazing salesman from Essex, UK, has been exposed multiple times on this site for his duff projects on the eastern seaboard, […]

Judges in Phuket, dubbed this week as the most corrupt place in Thailand by the Anti-Corruption Organisation of Thailand, have ruled that BBC South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head, cannot travel around the region on news assignments without first seeking the courts permission – and paying more cash. In a case brought by a lawyer […]

Readers of newspapers in Thailand might be puzzled about what has happened in the investigation into the shooting of alleged boiler room fraudster Briton Tony Kenway outside the resort of Pattaya recently. The last reports coming from Bangkok stated that the mastermind another Brit, Toby James Nelhams, had been caught in Cambodia and was about […]

Boiler room fraud is the perfect crime in Thailand specifically because Thai police will not investigate it, and secondly the money is hidden and moved on around multiple third parties confounding even the best police in the world. However there seems to be another one, which I must admit I had to laugh at. The […]

A career British child abuser, who was arrested twice in Thailand for suspected offences against children faces life in prison after admitting 45 offences against children, many abroad. In fact, of those offences, Mark Frost, also as Andrew Tracy, pleaded guilty to nine offences against children in Thailand between 2009 and 2012. The Thai victims […]

OH, AND LEONARDO DI CAPRIO – THE THAI BOILER ROOM BOYS PIN-UP –  IS NOW ROOTING FOR SPURS My, oh my. Leonardo di Caprio seems to be a popular figure down in Pattaya – at least the image of him playing Jordan Belfort in ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ is. First up cropped Leo on the […]

With the alleged assassins of Briton Tony Kenway in Thailand named and on the run Thai police remain cautious about naming the source of the victim’s wealth although, according to the Khao Sod newspaper in Bangkok, they privately admitted he was a ‘boiler room’ scammer. It is now almost certain that 39-year-old Kenway was a […]

Don’t lean against the wall NO URN SO FAR FOR DREW NOYES IN GRECIAN TRAGEDY Runaway fraudster and extortionist Drew Noyes has still failed to sell a tasteless Grecian style knocking shop in Thailand indicating there are no suckers to be had or a slump in Thailand’s twilight tourist industry. From his home at 613 […]

A Briton gunned down in Pattaya early today had a picture on his Facebook page meeting the King of Thailand. If the picture is genuine it begs the question why. And if it is not it could also answer the question of why he was murdered. But what is certain is that Tony Kenway, 39, […]

‘IT’S A STEAL!’ A notorious American confidence trickster is at it again trying to off load former government subsidised housing to tourists to the raunchy Thai resort of Pattaya. Drew Walter Noyes, 61, from Wilmington, North Carolina, is trying to pass off a former National Housing Authority unit in the Keha Condominium.  He claims the […]