There are a couple of gentlemen dressed in best police finery going around farang compounds presenting a questionnaire to resident farangs.
There has been no advance notification, there's not the Garuda on the forms, and on being questioned to whom would this information be delivered, the officer angrily refused to answer.
Does anybody know of this, how legit is this? This has a whiff of phishery about it.
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Fishing, phishing or a farang round-up?
Fishing, phishing or a farang round-up?
"There's no plausible or convincing reason, certainly no evidential one, to believe that there is such an entity (= deity) and that all observable phenomena, including the cosmological ones... are explicable without the hypothesis; you don't need the assumption."
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Re: Fishing, phishing or a farang round-up?
It certainly sounds and looks suspicious. There is no letter heading on the papers, no contact address and no telephone number.
In Thai there is no additional information.
My suggestion would be to take the papers to the police station and ask them to verify the document and if they confirm that it is a police document, check what the information will be used for.
In Thai there is no additional information.
My suggestion would be to take the papers to the police station and ask them to verify the document and if they confirm that it is a police document, check what the information will be used for.
"'The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." - Mark Twain
Re: Fishing, phishing or a farang round-up?
Judging from the encouraging lack of replies this must have been an isolated, irregular incident.
Which, of course, is good.
Which, of course, is good.
"There's no plausible or convincing reason, certainly no evidential one, to believe that there is such an entity (= deity) and that all observable phenomena, including the cosmological ones... are explicable without the hypothesis; you don't need the assumption."
Re: Fishing, phishing or a farang round-up?
Adolf and Heindrich would be ever so proud of this discriminating information gathering!
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Re: Fishing, phishing or a farang round-up?
call the tourist police and ask them to come round asap while you keep the swine talking. Tell the TP there are a couple of men impersonating police officers casing our house and hassling you.
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"To sin by silence makes cowards of men."
"To sin by silence makes cowards of men."
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Re: Fishing, phishing or a farang round-up?
Good advice is to always insist on seeing their Police ID cards. The Thai police uniforms are very easy to obtain as are all of the necessary badges. You can buy them from the same shops that supply the police. There have been many reports of the bad guys impersonating the Thai police for all manner of cons. I remember seeing an interview with two regional police generals and they could not even agree if it was an offence for someone, who was not a police officer, to wear a police uniform.
It is however an offence to actually impersonate a police officer. As Sandman rightly says, call the tourist police if they make a reappearance and are not willing to show their police ID.
It is however an offence to actually impersonate a police officer. As Sandman rightly says, call the tourist police if they make a reappearance and are not willing to show their police ID.
"'The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." - Mark Twain