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Thai HIV Test Scam

December 12th, 2011 · Health





The World Aids day was just last month and we all know that Thailand is far from safe from HIV and Aids. The Aids pandemic have moved away from the Thai Gay bars and HIV is now a normal family matter.  Some Thai sadly believes that HIV comes from dirty or black skin and people with white and pure skin cannot have HIV. So when they visit massages palaces they refuse condom and get HIV and then goes home and give it to the wife.

If you wish to want join the sex trade in Thailand you should be very careful and always use a condom. The big signs on the walls that the girls or boys tested weekly is just a big scam and the clinics that conduct these test are well paid by the bars.

Some private small clinic not even test the blood you give them they just give you a negative result since that is what you want to hear and they make a quick easy 1000 THB. This is off course a scam but not much you can do about it. I am not saying all small clinics are bad but be careful with clinics that just opened and do not have a record.
The myth that the girls on the street should have more HIV than other girls is also not true. Sure some girls that are working in the street cannot work in the bar since she have HIV and failed a test but she can also opted out from working in bars.

Never take your new-found loves word for that she been using a condom for all her life but send here straight to an English speaking clinic where you can see the test result and the staff is trusted. If you are away from your girl or boyfriend make sure you test her or him again. Even with all the test in the world you still risking your life have sex without a condom in any country.

Let me tell you a about a scenario that is very common in Thailand

Your Thai girl have Thai boyfriend and she also have you for the money. The Thai boyfriends gets money from Your Thai girl that you give her and he spends your money on his Thai girlfriends that works in a massage for Thai customers that do not want use condom. Since the massage girl lies to her boyfriend saying she use condom all the time they have sex without condom and since you tested your girlfriend she and her boyfriend also never use condom since your girlfriend thinks he only love her. You never use a condom either since you think she is clean. You will get HIV from the Thai customer just from a simple little lie.

Do not trust in anybody’s word when it comes to your life always use a condom.

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Thai flood scam

December 5th, 2011 · Charity





The Flooding in Thailand have led to many people taking to scams to make a better living. Water donated was sold, boats donated was sold in short time hotels, money donated never reached the victims of the floods and the list very long.

In Thailand it is very difficult to set up a real charity and the charity that do exists do not show that much when these kind of things happening. The Thai government do not really have control over the money that flows in the private accounts that circulate on the internet and magazines. The Thai government can hardly control the money they use for the flood victims how could they control the private sector.

In Bangkok foreigners are walking around and asking for donations and they have probably nothing to do with the flooding aid but they make a living out of it.

So how can you avoid scams?

If your local charity doing something donate to them, they are known to you and you know they are legit.

If someone you know or your company is doing a hands on donation ask them to give a helping hand. You will see the donations being handed over and see the joy on people’s faces.

Avoid sending money to private bank accounts that you have no idea who is the owner and is totally out of your control.

Do not give money to people coming to knock on your door asking for donations.

If your company want to give a bigger donation, ask the Army to help you take it to the people who need it and make sure you brand the stuff with your company logo. Not because you want to brag about it but to avoid people resale donated goods.

Just because you have a good moral and good standard does not mean other people have the same high values as you have. Some people would do anything and I mean anything to make a profit from the flood aid.

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California WOW Life Time Scam

September 21st, 2011 · Thai Fitness Clubs

California WOW cannot just stay clean they need to cheat people out from the money to make profit and do not ask me how they got into the stock market in Thailand.

After our last article about the SMS Scam by California WOW we had a Thai girl send us an email telling us about her problem with them as well.

She said that she failed to understand that her “lifetime” membership will be terminated if she not paid 100 THB per year.

According to California WOW own “rules” they can terminate they account if you not pay the 100 THB per year and you cannot pay in advance you need to pay at the day or week exactly making it very easy to forget.

A lifetime membership is just that it is for life so you cannot really terminate it but California WOW can they can do everything they want since they have money. They can take away classes and close fitness centers but if you forget 100 THB you lose 25 000 THB.

We called on her behalf to the “customer service” at California WOW and they advice us that if we had forgotten a few month they could fix us back for 2000 THB. But if we had more than 6 month due our 25 000 for one year of fitness was lost.

We asked about this fixing in the contract and they said it did not have but it was really up to them to do as they pleased. So basically they do not go by the contract at all. Our advice was to talk to the consumer court and try to sue California Wow for unethical business practice.

 

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