Bangkok boiler rooms

The popular Thai expat website ThaiVisa.com has published a story stating that British boiler room fraudster Toby Nelhams, the believed mastermind behind the murder of fellow Briton Tony Kenway in Pattaya last January, had been released by Cambodian police as long ago as last October. If that’s true then for Nelhams, who was found guilty […]

 COMING SOON A BOILER ROOM GUIDE TO COMPANY NOMINEES Apologies for a break in transmissions here but several long term enquiries are coming to a head; I am still in a learning curve with regards to the new U.K. -and then, of course, I have been meeting up with old colleagues while raising kids 24/7. […]

SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO TAKE A BREAK I had a complaint last week from a reader who said that stories here were not coming fast and furious enough. He suggested I was getting lazy and urged me to get on to the case. He is from the north of England and seemingly does not […]

NOW THE ‘GUILTY’ BANKS ARE NAMED The exodus from Thailand of ‘boiler room boys’ – those involved in ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ operations – appears to have geared up with reports now that most of the operations in the northern capital Chiang Mai have relocated to Jakarta and Manila or are in the process. Sources […]

SO CALLED ‘TRUE-BRIT’ WAS MOTIVATED BY GREED Bar manager Kim Fletcher – the Chiang Mai Brit (pixelated) and Bill Haines ‘Foreign Secretary’  at Jameson’s Pattaya A former British bar owner in Chiang Mai is today named as one of the ‘bankers’ for a range of  ‘boiler rooms’ in Thailand known as the ‘Wolves of Bangkok’. The […]

WOLVES OF BANGKOK AND PATTAYA TAKE A TEMPORARY HIKE A second horde of migrant labourers was reported today to have fled to the Cambodian border after allegations were made last week that foreign crime syndicates had taken over a large portion of Thailand’s tourist sex trade. Although the figures have not reached the high figures […]

Jordan Belfort is the real ‘Wolf of Wall Street’. By the time the U.S. authorities caught up with him he had taken down ripped off people to the tune of over US$220 million dollars in share trading scams. That he was a dishonest and evil man who spent his takings on the high life, prostitutes […]

‘The Flying Sporran advises against all but essential travel to Sukhumvit Soi 11.You should take extra care and avoid gatherings of other foreigners talking about ‘gerbil wheels’. These meetings can be accompanied by indiscriminate wretchings’. Foreigners heading out on the town in Bangkok should especially careful over the next few weeks as the city has […]

OVER 100 ‘WOLVES OF WALL STREET DOWN’ – 13 BOILER ROOMS TERMINATED Aston Martin seized in Spain With over 100 people arrested in swoops on ‘boiler rooms operators’  in Spain and Britain yesterday detectives of Britain’s City Fraud Squad were quoted in respect of Thailand saying it was a ‘hostile environment’. Newspapers are now referring […]

THAI MAFIA ‘WANT THE FOREIGN CAKE’ Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary (‘Round up the usual suspects’) They seem invincible. The foreign operators of boiler rooms (those illegal share trading rooms which con pensioners out of millions) have now taken over vast swathes of the night life industry in Bangkok and have always seemed like they cannot […]