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 Another ATM scam
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Lagt på d. 28/04-2006 22:38
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hejsa Her kom lige en advarsel på engelsk fra thailand Another ATM scam I thought I would write to inform you of a recent experience that I had at an ATM machine in Pattaya 2nd Rd near Soi Pattayaland 1, as you may wish to warn your readers of an obvious scam operation that fortunately did not succeed on me. I live and work in Jomtien and have an account with Siam Commercial Bank. Unfortunately my mother in England recently died and I had to hurriedly arrange a return trip to attend her funeral. I had collected my air ticket from the travel agent and before booking my taxi to the airport for the next day I stopped at the ATM concerned to withdraw 5000 baht. I observed my usual caution when entering my pin no. and duly received my money; however, when I walked away from the machine and was about to cross 2nd Rd a tall farang man who I believe to be a non-native English speaking European ran up to me waving a 1000 baht note telling me that the machine was still paying out money and that I needed to return to the machine to "Conclude my transaction". Naturally my first reaction, which is what the scammers rely on, was that the guy was very honest and obviously, not thinking too clearly, I was concerned that my money was still being paid out. I walked back to the machine where another French guy was standing who told me that I should replace my ATM card, type in my pin no. and press some buttons to conclude my transaction. Probably because my mind was on other things I foolishly did so and did not take my usual precaution of concealing my pin no. The result was that the machine "swallowed" my card and the 2nd guy kept telling me to type in my pin no. again which again I did as I was now desperate to get my card back as I was leaving for the airport in the morning and had about 100,000 baht in my account. The 2nd guy then put his own card in the machine, which I assume was to clone mine, and whilst he and his friend were chatting to me, I glanced over my shoulder and noticed that he deliberately covered the display screen with his hand by pretending to lean on the machine. Another thing I recalled after the event was that the first guy was pretending to read an advert in the window of the adjoining shop and was writing something down in a small notebook, presumably my pin no. that was being conveyed to him by his partner by way of hand signals behind my back. After what seemed an eternity, and when I was about to walk away faced with having to visit my bank at 8.30 in the morning to cancel my card, my card emerged from the machine which I obviously put in my wallet and walked away leaving the 2 guys still at the machine. All this happened very quickly and at the time I did not suspect anything as my main concern was retrieving my card. As I walked away I suspected that these 2 "Good Samaritans" were up to something and were relying on the 1000 baht bait and quick talking to make me drop my guard. Praying that they did not do anything with the cloned card too quickly, I raced like something possessed to the large Siam Commercial Bank on 2nd Rd and immediately changed my pin no. and when the bank opened next morning, as an added security as I was leaving the country for at least 2 weeks, I transferred the entire contents of my account to another account, as I did not know whether these guys had the technology to override the fact that I had changed my pin no. Of course it could have all been genuine and I had encountered 2 of the most honest and helpful Europeans in Pattaya but should you choose to print this letter, I will leave your readers to decide. My advice is that if the same thing happens to anyone else they should take the offered "bait" of 1000 baht but decline to return to the machine and tell the guys that they will sort it out with their bank and then take the nearest policeman to meet them! bamsen |
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Lagt på d. 28/04-2006 23:53
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Det er sgu frækt |
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Lagt på d. 29/04-2006 06:13
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Davser nicefarang Ja det er utroligt frækt Især det med at de kommer efter ham, og siger det med de 1000 baht ,og giver ham dem. bamsen |
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