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Are Thai economic police at last catching up with foreign financial advisors who have been defrauding the country’s ex-pat populations for decades? The answer to that is no. Why should we expect them to? But good news at least to see the arrest of Briton Mark Kirkham at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi international airport accused now of […]

Police in Somerset have been in touch with police in Bangkok over the case of Mark Hallett – a British scammer first exposed on this site as one of the new ‘sophisticated berks of Bangkok’. Hallett, 48, skipped the UK while facing 11 fraud charges related to a Ponzi’ investment scheme. His father was a […]

DON’T LOSE YOUR CASH TO THESE POSEURS This is a warning about a virtual company called Westrate Capital Management a boiler room operation which is currently targeting punters in Bangkok and possibly the world at the moment. This company claims to be registered with FINRA  -The Financial Industry Regulating Authority and  SIPC the Securities Investor […]

OR HAVE HOOTERS DOLLIES NOW CHEERED HIM UP? Has Richard Barrow, the most prolific full time blogger in Thailand turned? I was shocked to read on Twitter yesterday that former schoolteacher Richard seems to be less enamoured with Thailand the ‘Land of Smiles’. This message seemed to come with a pronounced frown: If anyone could […]

IS NET CLOSING IN SERIAL FRAUDSTER POSING AS OFFICER AND GENTLEMAN? Scot Brian Goudie, formerly known as Goldie,has been spotted out shopping in Siam Paragon, Bangkok, after vacating his ‘Key Bar’ in Pattaya when a warrant for his arrest was issued. The phony British barrister was spotted this afternoon at Siam Paragon with his latest […]

COURT CASES, ROCKS AND STONES, AND DEATH THREATS – HE CAME THROUGH IT ALL EXCEPT A THAI CIVIL SERVANT’S LOSS OF FACE The British academic who was detained in custody at Bangkok airport after correctly accusing a Thai civil servant of forgery and plagiarism – has been told he will be deported from Thailand on […]

NOW WHERE TO FROM HERE? Britain’s Daily Telegraph today reports on the scandal of foreign based independent financial advisors selling duff products and also dodgy funds recommended by major financial institutions. Financial writer Katie Morley highlights the smarmy IFA’s and also the offshore arms of major British financial institutions, which also reap major benefits from […]

Having seen quite a few drunken policemen in Thailand I could not avoid submitting this video picked up today by a Thai newspaper of a drunk cop stopping a motorist in Bangkok. The cop admits being drunk ‘a little bit’. Motorist: “You’re a police officer. You’re on duty! Are you drunk?” Cop: “Mao nid noi!” […]

PLUS! BUY IN THAILAND NOW – THROUGH AMERICAN RECOMMENDED  – LISTED BY-  HOMELAND SECURITY Don’t waste a minute. American Drew Noyes could be gone soon from Thailand. He has applied unsuccessfully twice to travel to the United States while on bail appealing a two year jail sentence for extortion – and the third time he […]

DONT’ GET SOLD A PUP BY THESE GUYS! WARNING: People with cash to spare in Thailand and East Asia should NOT put it in De Vere Group.  I am sure I have mentioned this before.  They are not registered with the SEC in Thailand and if things go wrong, which they may well do, then […]