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August 10 2004

Farang conman robs Thai women

Farang conman robs Thai women

Posing as a senior executive, Skip (not his real name) introduces himself to rich Thai women in upscale nightspots. His charming, confident manner and impeccable dress-sense certainly make him look the part.

His talk is of stylish living, lavish houses and luxury cars but, in reality, a couple of decent suits and a battered rucksack are all he owns. Skip has never held down a proper job in his life, preferring instead to make his living separating rich gullible Thai women from their money.

The Thai media likes to present farang men as shrink-wrapped off-the-shelf husbands with a house and car included in the box - a Thai woman's dream come true. Consequently, farang blokes are often presumed to have integrity - which plays right into the hands of slimy conmen like Skip.

He chatted-up one of my Thai girlfriend's wealthy mates last year. Let's call her Fon. His saccharine patter soon won her heart - but not her complete trust. When she refused to "lend" him money on various flimsy pretexts, Skip finally resorted to the lowest trick of all - rifling though her purse while she was in the shower.

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Fortunately, though, Fon had forgotten her towel and, when she stepped out of the bathroom to fetch it, she caught him red-handed. Even the devious Skip couldn't talk his way out of this one and was immediately shown the door.

I mention the story because my girlfriend pointed him out to me a few days ago, sitting at a corner table in our favourite restaurant. Today, he was back again but, this time, hiding behind a newspaper. Nothing has been said but I wish he'd find somewhere else to eat breakfast.

[Posted to Farang Life by David]

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Readers' comments

mr peter says:

Can I have Fons number please-peter

David says:

I'm auctioning it on eBay.

Jake says:

Well, where does he eat breakfast ?

SiLeakHunt says:

Has he written a training manual on how to execute these scams ?

OXO says:

I'm not sure what the point of this article is,

Does this tasteless crap suggest that Mango Sauce is slowly deteriorating in quality and humour?

Are you trying to solicit sympathy for the Thai girls who are treading a higher moral path?

David are you as stupid as you make your self out to be or did mom drop you on your head when she was reaching for the whiskey

"Mango's not as good as it was, too much bitching going on now"
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Just thought I would be the first to get all that out of the way, as a representative of the posters who feel that your Blog should always have some deep meaningful & enlighten message for us every day. Plus I have also spelt one word wrong & made a grammatical error by placing a comer in the wrong place,, a flogging offence that I am sure this will produce an intake of breath & a clutching of my favourite posters keyboards. OXO

PS Ok we can carry on with the ìnormalî mail now, Oh Nice story by the way thanks.

mr peter says:

David is gohoking, I look ebay but me no can see. However there is stacks of thai stuff such as around 1,000 different T shirts or muay thai shorts, loads af amulets, pillows etc, 56 pages to trawl through but NO Fon number. Here's an idea, people were selling earth from glastonbury pop festival and there is even a bloke selling water from loch ness. What would sell well from bangkok that costs bugger all? klong water, used bar girl knickers? there must be something, oh yeah Fon's number-peter

Birdman says:

There was a time MangoSauce was interesting for about 10 minutes. Unless things pick up I will become a former reader.

David says:

Birdman

Under your other handle, Ragtopmuse, you said this:

ìWhy is everyone ragging on Mr. Stick? He seems like a good bloke. He gives the disclaimer of "One man's opinion." And that is all it is. Good on him I say. He has carved out a nice life based on frugality and creativity... I enjoy Stickman.î

Your whining complaint can now be seen in its proper context.

mrpeter says:

Well I think there's more interesting material now than ever, have a read of Dicers posts, these are well worth printing out to keep. Then there are nice gents such as John U and TK who always have interesting angles. The lovely couple Greg and Isobel are a right clever pair so none of yer silly stuff from them. Then we have the arseholes who shall remain nameless as well as regular traveler Dana and his wonderful tales, and quite a few other characters. It's just a bit of fun though, not the editorial of the Bangkok Post.
If you bugger off will it make you an ex parrot?-peter

GEORGE S says:

David, I am a little confused on some details in this posting. It is not clear how many times or dates Fon and Skip shared before they moved to the shower stage. Surely, you are not suggesting an intelligent well to do Thai lady would hit the shower with a man in her room on the first meeting. How many meetings were there before he got into her room and subsequently into other places?

I think there is some deeper meaning in this posting regarding Thai/Farang relationships and just how fast you can get the lady to take the knickers off and pop in to the shower.

You must dig deeper, David does not post such shallow and superficial articles, not normally. Now if it is about Asian Babes with a good photo, shallow and superficial is perfectly acceptable.

george

TANAI KWAI says:

A measured, civil, probing critique, challenging David, but through implicit praise.

George S. should post more.

(...)

ziggy says:

>>There was a time MangoSauce was interesting for about 10 minutes.

I've checked in a few times and, just curious, but are all the guys regularly posting here pot-bellied goiter-dangling alcoholics? If not, and you live full-time in Thailand, then, good god, why do you waste all your time (and discussion) on skanky tattoo-scary hookers? I comprehend the occasional urge, I do, but why not simply ask out a few pretty waitresses and sales girls and so forth? You don't have to be Brad Pitt to get laid. And if you actually are half-decent looking, or even just semi-charming, it's pretty damn easy to arrange for a different girl every night of the week to come by and "visit" if you have yet to develop any discernable interests beyond your crotch. Anyone who's lived in Asia a few years can tell you that.

After a few months away from the beery haze, then come back and discuss something a bit more challenging than how best to label the various hooker archetypes, or whether or not to buy one of them a buffalo for her "sick" grandmother.

Dana says:

OK Ziggy you caught me. Boy oh Boy, nobody can put anything over on you. Not only do I have a goiter, I have two goiters. And yes, they both dangle. I've fooled a lot of people over the years by tucking my chin down and special tailoring but I quess I can't fool you.

So what's with you Ziggy anyway? What's the point of your post? Is it Ziggy's Wayor the highway? I mean are you kidding with your tiredasss stereotyping ofallmen who happen to be away from home and temporarily living in another country? What are you suggesting--that while in Thailand I should walk around in Monk's robes and beg? Would that be politically correct enough and trendy enough and cool enough for you? Or how about instead of pleasing myself by splashing around in the water at a wonderful resort for rich people I should spend my vacation time as a farang mahoot having the insides of my thighs turned to infected jelly from riding on an elephant? Would that suit your tastes for productive time? I think that before you hand out your boring and predictable judgements of the posters on this site you should spend some time and actually read the posts. I challenge you to find more insightful and educated and knowledge specific posts about the Thai scene on any other chat site including Thai sites. In a debate between you and Tanai Kwai on any Thai subject every single poster on this site would bet the mortgage on TK. And I'll bet TK could name some posters that could at least 80% take his place when ennui took over and he quit. It's all very fine to throw stones but not from the bleachers. Get down on the field and play with us. I challenge you to find men more philosophically and ethically and morally and humanly plugged into what life can offer.

Gimpy1 says:

Tania,

And you should really post less!

Tirak Ja says:

Hey!

As a:

"shrink-wrapped off-the-shelf husbands with a house and car included in the box - a Thai woman's dream come true. "

I resemble that remark...Doh!

willy says:

Dana - i think when u vomiteed all over the keyboard u entirely missed the point of ziggy's post.....sigh, never mind, I dont think ur gonna get it anyway, each to their own, i guess.

Tirak Ja says:

You know while I think the "Skip" fella you're talking about is disgusting why isn't everyone foaming at the mouth about what a cunt my ex-wife is? She did the same thing to me, I just didn't have the dumb luck to take her off my bank accounts fast enough when she went rampant...

Doh! Another moment of clarity...I think..still a little foggy...but I'm groping here with possible enlightenment...

!I know that's why we Thai aficionados are here. We are just a clichÈd and somewhat maligned but now intergal part of the Thai economy. If it weren't for all the backstabbing, bloated and waddling Mingers back in farangland Thais would possibly starve.

See we saved'em all.

Hmmm I feel better now...Jel-l-i-e Do-nut... mmmmm good...

Kermit says:

Don't know about the rest of you guys but I prefer to think of myself as an ëaltruist or possibly even a philanthropist' NOT as a pot-bellied goiter-dangling alcoholic.

Tirak Ja says:

Well me too. It is like a predjudice that we male farangs toil under when we go to the LOS. Everyone thinks you are some fat old bugger just a few baht and a two week drink fest ahead of a leap off of a Pattya balcony. I've never even been to Pattya...

I'm in good shape and do okay career-wise. I have no problem attracting eager to rut lady farangs, I am just tired of their crap...

I was just on the phone with a female (farang, yes she was a hefty model though a prize of her kind in many other ways) and just convinced her to take a trip to Cambodia. She has been to LOS before many times.

Of course I did have to fend off a few questions about my time in Phuket and Samui. Nice lady though I hope she goes, she will enjoy it. And me having been there and bringing back happy tales is already helping the economies of Thailand and Cambodia. I think they should give me a medal, I haven't had one since I got out of the service, guess I'm about due!

I await everyone's praise for my continued support of the people of the region...

:-)

ENLIGHTENED says:

This site is full of fuckin post-op LADYBOYS!

Mr.White says:

I don't really see the point of post-op ladyboys...

Mike T says:

Most farang men who live longterm in Thailand are not bevvied up fools chasing prossies, proud of their "conquests" and measuring their self worth by the beauty of last night's paid company whilst proudly braying how clever and professional they are.

By the same token I doubt most posters who actually live in thailand can be similarly stereotyped.

Fon has picked up a guy, not checked him out and started sleeping with him in the belief he is what he is not. Sounds like a common story.

Just goes to show the power of a good suit and appearance on a "good girl".

Is he a slime ball? Undoubtedly, but then so are many others.

Marc says:

All Power to you Skip! It's about time someone turned the tables on the "Thai girl rips off Farang" theme. Go to it buddy!

Me. says:

Bout time we 'turned the tables'.

I got cleaned out for everything but my notebook last week (4k GBP) by a f u c k i n g bar girl whilst I slept.

So fuck 'em

funky chicken says:

I have been reading this site for a few weeks now.

I have also been living in North & South East Asia for more than half of my 41 years of life thus far.

I really enjoy David's insights, advice and humour. It indirectly highlights the simularity to Philippina, Japanese, Singaporean and Indonesian girls and the lot of gainjin, ang mo and bule in those respective countries. David's quips are further embellished by the counters by his community (Peter, Stickman, Tanai Kwai, Tana, et al).

cheers!

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