If you are new to the whole Thai online dating scene then it’s imperative that you read this post and even if you’ve been around the block a few times with online dating sites like Thai Love Links and Thai Love Lines then you’ll recognise some of these scams. I’ve come across pretty much every scam there is and I’ve even used online dating sites to scam people in fact I used a dating site once in order to get a green card to America so I know first hand how the scams work.[ad#Google Horizontal]
The best dating scams online are the ones where you don’t even realise you’ve been scammed. The girls that run those scams are very crafty, experienced, have been doing it for years and will outwit you every single time. Most of the really good Thai online dating scams run by Thai girls have been coached by Farang who have taught them the trade or who in turn get a cut from the takings don’t believe then me read on.
Expensive dinner online dating Scam
This is not an obvious scam and one that is more often perpetrated by western women than Thai girls but Thai girls are known to do this too. If the girl isn’t into you she’ll still meet up with you and make you pay for dinner and drinks but leave you hanging. While you might like to wine and dine a girl and have a “real date” that’s awesome just don’t ever do that on the first date. Never ever let a Thai girl pick the place you’ll have dinner. The first date should always be had at a food court or something where you eat a cheap meal, second date a week later might be OK for something more expensive. I met a Thai girl once who told me all about her scam, her uncle owned a seafood restaurant in Bangkok and she would take guys there at lunch and dinner, the bills were always over 2000 baht and she would make 1000 baht a day and eat for free needless to say she told me this over a bowl of noodles which I made her pay for. 🙂
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Money for the bus online dating scam
I’ve blogged about this scam before and yet guys are still falling for it. I’m pretty sure though this scam is perpetrated against Thai guys more than Farang guys but it’s still worth knowing. Let’s say you meet a girl off TLL and she lives in a different province let’s say Prae and you live in Bangkok. Well your not about to go running off to Prae now are you, so she’ll say she can come to you. Great when can you come you’ll ask. When you send her the money! You might think it’s all good you call her maybe even see her on MSN and great you feel comfortable yet your still not sure so you think your smart and you’ll buy her the ticket instead that way you know she is going to come. But for most of these northern provinces you can’t buy the ticket unless you are actually there so you end up sending her the money. Next thing you know she sends you an email telling you she is scared to go and wants her friend to come too, her friend is willing to have sex with you they are both 18. Wow two 18y/o Thai girls coming to stay with you, dreaming! So you send another 1000 baht and never hear from them again. More often than not the person responsible for the scam is not Thai at all it’s the Farang boyfriend of the girl using the scam to live here indefinitely, please don’t be a statistic and fall for this, no matter how legit she sounds and maybe she even is, don’t send the money! By the way this scam is not illegal in Thailand so even if you go to the police they can’t and won’t do anything.
Hard luck story online dating scam
If you have ever met more than 5 Thai girls you would have had at least heard the beginning of this scam. In fact it’s more common amongst bar girls than online but the online world is full of it too. A Thai girl you either contact or she contacts you and you start to talking. Typically within the first hour of talking to her you’ll know about how she has no job her parents work in the fields and her uncle is sick. It all sounds so sad doesn’t it and you believe it too because Thailand is a third world country. Hey everyone has problems in the world and I know just as many people in the USA with hard luck stories too but doesn’t mean I’m going to send them a few hundred dollars. I need money for school for Uni for this and for that I know giving money to the unfortunate feels good but your better off going to the Red Cross than giving anyone you met online money. I once had a guy send me 15,000 baht and a month later send me another 10,000 baht because I went onto Craigslist and posed as a Thai girl selling myself and this guy wanted to be the good Samaritan and send me to school. There is a sucker born every minute but whatever you do don’t send money to Thai girls online. You can’t even be sure they are getting the money as in this case I spent the money on paying my gym membership a few hookers and dinner for a month.
Personal details online dating scam
The personal details scam is only the beginning of the entire scam. What happens is typically the scammer will post a profile on TLL posing as a white Chick living in your area. She will within the first few emails ask for your email address so she can contact you outside of the dating site. Now the scammer has your email address you won’t hear from them again instead you’ll start getting spam mail and offers to other dating sites for which they will get a commission. In order to protect yourself from this don’t ever give out your email address there is no reason too unless say your using MSN to chat with the girls. If you use MSN to chat up Thai girls create a seperate account and gradually graduate them to your real account after you have met them.
Prostitute online dating scam
Most normal people use a Thai dating site to find Thai girls who are interested in a partner, while I might use the services of online dating sites to find girls to f*** I’m not looking to meet any pro’s I know plenty of places to find them. There is nothing else like a girl who is willing to give it up for free and be enthusiastic about it as well. Mechanical prostitutes roam online dating sites and convince themselves they are not prostitutes when in fact that are. Online Thai prostitutes who use dating sites are pretty clever and not as easy to spot online until you meet up with them but many times a few inquisitive questions can really go along way. The online prostitute may even be up front and request money for sex or she could be subtle and just see you and make you pay for everything while avoiding sex for any reason. When you do have sex with the girl it will be disappointing. If she doesn’t ask for money she will ask you to buy things for her, like if you ask her to come to the club with you you’ll say she has no dress or nothing to wear and you’ll be like oh i’ll buy you something. Don’t be a fool, every Thai girl has something to wear to the club.[ad#Google Horizontal]
How To Avoid Thailand Online Dating Site Scams
If you don’t want to be a statistic and want to avoid being stung by a Thai dating site scam then just by reading this article you will be better prepared. But here are some genuine tips to avoid being scammed and to avoid meeting Thai girls that are not dating material.
- Be prepared to block girls for the simplest of reasons, I don’t care how hot her picture is if it ain’t right it ain’t right, there are millions of these girls out there.
- As soon as the girl starts saying she wants this wants that dump her.
- If a Thai girl lives too far from you don’t waste your time talking to her
- If the girl says she wants to take you to a place to eat so no and take her some place super cheap.
- If a girl needs money to come to you, taxi, bus, plane say no, if you have to say no more than 2 times then block.
- If a girl asks for your email address give her your phone number and tell her to call instead.
- Don’t under any circumstances send money to a Thai girl you met online no matter how you met her online.
- If the girl asks for cab money or any type of money to go home walk away, I know this is hard for many soft cocks out there and you might even like the girl just don’t do it, if she really is a good girl and she likes you she is more likely to respect you that you didn’t give her any money.
Have you been scammed before or know about any good Thai online scams let us know about it by writing a comment below.
Good post Chris.
Won’t they know something is up when they have to wire money to your name though and it doesn’t jive with the usual Saliniaia Pragawanantana type of Thai name? How do you manage to pull that part off? Plus if the bank is notified won’t they close your account?
How do they make money off your personal details? Who actually pays for random email addresses?
Admit I fell for the expensive dinner scam 1st night in BKK. Went out for dinner with someone I just met walking around. The meal was OK but came to the same price as a dinner at a fancy restaurant in NYC! I remember thinking, I thought Thailand was supposed to be cheaper than the West?! Luckily I was loaded at the time. Later I got wise to her and refused when she asked for 1000 baht ‘cab fare’. I got angry calls from her ‘brother cop’ at my hotel. Switched rooms and never heard from them again. Got quite a few good lays out of the deal though so I guess not a total loss. Funny story to tell too so I guess that’s worth something.
The bank account is typically easy. See you never say your real name always use one of those Thai nick names like boo por oil you know. So you have a Thai person open a bank account for you, pretty simple meet a girl get with her and tell her some story that you can’t open an account they normally do you sign up to the internet banking so you know when the money comes in and get it out straight away, even if you break with the chick she just forgets and wouldn’t have the time to check for the funds and use the ATM card.
They don’t make off with your personal details off the bat, they have your email address and just slam you with fishing emails get your password then if your using the same password for all your sites they can get into pretty much anything. You can sell email addresses but it’s not worth it.
We’ve all been stung at least once by some scam, knowledge is king and I hope the post helps people, might encourage other people to do the scams but hey serves them right for not reading my blog! lol
I can hardly believe anyone would send money for the ‘bus etc. If a girl is visiting me from afar and needs the ‘bus money’ I always ask ‘how much’ and I say ‘I’ll give you when you arrive here’ (which I always do of course). It’s normally no more than 500.
Seems pretty basic to me that you don’t send money (for honey).
Trust me, so many guys have fallen for this one.
I agree with Chiang Mai Guy …………….. never send money in advance . on TLL a girl tried that trick on me , i flatly refused to send any money , she became abusive …………. told her to just get lost
Good stuff but common sense..
The bus ticket trick also happened to me a few years ago, lets just say that conversation ended pretty quickly
Bus ticket doesn’t bother me – it’s an exchange. As long as you know ‘up front’ it’s cool
This is an excellent article – including the replies – I just hope the folks that really need to read it will see before they get victimized. I like everyone else has been fooled, but not in the ways mentioned here.
I have lived here since May 2009, but been visiting off & on since 2003, and in my experience the best way to avoid getting taken is to [1] avoid the pay for play types altogether and [2] don’t look for dates in bars.
I have a Thai sweetie and we have been together for almost 2 years now. I met her at JJ Mall (she’s a shop attendant) and I asked my best friend in the whole world and my dearest brother. He’s Thai, and believe you me, he can spot a phony a mile away – I figured if she passed his scrutiny then she was A-OK and that has been proven correct.
As I write this I realize few readers are prepared to avoid the above-mentioned, but, if you are a serious person and take a mature attitude, believe me the right one will come along.
Patience, be a gentleman and always polite (to everyone not just the sweeties) and bide your time – it’ll pay off.
Damn, I met a British guy in Pattaya who said he lost his job as a teacher and was not given his last salary. So I I gave him a bus fare to come to BKK to find new job; then he stayed in my own apartment, fed him for a month and gave him pocketmoney while seeking for job. The only stuff I never shared was my towel and tootbrush! Later on, I learned he lost his money to his Thai gf.
I’ve been feeding a thai chick for 2 years and she junked me, probably for another farang, wealthier… I guess she’s working as a bar-girl in Pattaya by now …5555. Getting accomodation at her parents’second house at each of my visits ( the prostitution house, hehehe ), I didn’t lose a lot of money, finally. I used to pay her 1000 bath per day on my first trip, then, I stopped paying on my next trips. Of course she tried the plane-ticket scam on me, the Iphone scam too ( a classical , don’t u think ? 5555 ). But I didn’t give any money on these obvious scams. I just paid some dresses and restaurants . Oh yes I had the restaurant scam ( owned by a cousin so she was getting retro-commissions around 500 baht…. lol … it was funny as she knew I knew the trick, but we never talked about it frankly ). Most of her scams were obvious, by the way. But, knowing them, I sometimes paid for them to make her happy. It was a non-verbal acknowledgment, somehow.
I would be an ass to complain, really 😉 fucking a 17 yo cutie when u r 45 yo is so good …. yep, no regret.
What do I do now ? I’m searching for a new one! of course !
To conclude, I’d say that scam from TLL ( I met my 2 last GFs on TLL ) is no big deal, really ;-)…As long as you can fuck these beautiful asian goddesses , it’s OK. Getting Scammed by a stinky Ivorian making you pay thousands of dollars not to send your naked picture to your boss and family must be so much more a pain in the ass !!! ( sign in the online petition to destroy internet wires in Africa please 😉 ).
I love thai scam !!!!! scam me please ! deep 😉 lol
PLease beware of this lady,
Female / Single /ID: 2724609
She may look young but had cheated tons of my money.
Dont be deceive by her looks and her young age.
I had been cheated and had learned my lesson. Hope others will
not follow my footsteps.
Very nice article indeed. Yes I have been a victim of a slight differver variant of hotel scam. I live and work in Singapore.
A girl on TLL proposed me and said she is coming over to singapore to work as nurse. I was very much aware she is not real but i didnt suspect as she looked genuine.
She sends me mail that she is joining on 3rd of Januar 2013 but will be in singapore with his brother for new year celebrations. Sounds Ok again.
After coming to singapore, she sends me her local number for contact.. Little doubtful..
When I called her local singapore number, she asks me to recharge the phone so that i can talk to her.. wow.. she doesnt have enough singapore dollars.. i thought it is pitty, but small amount so I paid $25 rechared her sim.
Then she keeps avoiding me.. and again asks for a recharge 🙂 I started doubing her intensions.. I should have dumped her right away.. but foolish me. She sends me SMS for a talk over lunch some time.. and says she is eagerly waiting in a mall. When I met her, wow, she was holding a crying child. Wowww.. looked like it is her, look aged. She takes me to a very expenisve place and starts ordering without even consulting me.. i ended up paying $55 for deserts. While talking to her, looked like she is pretty experienced, and i highly doubted she is a prostitute and unwanted child. She kept on saying the child is her brothers, nice..
Anyways i paid $55 for fucking prostitute and her unwanted crying child and without finishing my food just got up and left.. she kept asking the waiter for packing the food for home 🙁
Bad story indeed.. So TLL rules
1> Girl asking money – RED
2> Girl sad story – RED
3> Girl wants to meet you – BIG RED
4> Girl wants sex, want to visit you – RED
5> Girl studying and wants you to support – RED
there are many prostitutes who dupe people off money as saying their studies are about to finish but dont have money.. so just support her till next 5 months or less 😀
6> Girl wants you to come down – OK
but dont reveal what and where you want to meet, always you set the place for her to come.. never ever splash money on the first meeting
Dude you totally got scammed, but it’s OK I think everyone has been scammed before, even I, we learn from our mistakes, thanks for sharing.
Mate just get up and goto toilet and go out the back door or any other door. She can’t run after you wearing stillettos carrying a baby and being held by waiters wanting HER to pay theuunpaid bill.
I went to a club with a girl I met online
she seemed nice . I had been chatting to her for about a week .
so we went to this club and we order drinks and she pulls out a v.i.p card , she did put in some money for one of the rounds of drinks tho . Ive been to Thailand a few times now and know what goes on. A few hours in I asked her a couple of questions that she gave zage answers to . I just got the feeling something wasn’t right , that it seemed to good to be true so I left . What do you think about this ?
like she takes you to the club of her choice and gets kick backs for drinks from the v.i.p card ?