Please report all your scams while on holiday in Thailand. We will either send our undercover team to investiage or report directly to our contact in the Tourist Police if we think that there is already enough evidence to prosecute. With your help, we can make a difference.
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Written by Chai
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
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As you walk down some of the populated streets in Thailand, particularly Sukhumvit Road, you may be approached by one or more young Thai people wearing "Amazing Thailand" polo shirts asking you to fill out a tourist survey. These young people do not work for any Tourism organization and have no interest in how you really feel. These people work for places such as the Tai-Pan Hotel and are only trying to get your contact information so you can later be solicited to purchase a time-share. Property development companies once tried to sell time shares as investments until it was discovered that these 'so called' investments lose 30% of their value the moment one purchases them. Nowadays, they are touted as vacation rentals. Either way, these tourist surveyors are misrepresenting themselves. Say no to the tourist surveys and enjoy the rest of your day.
If you do feel pressured into taking a tourist survey, do so and leave your contact information blank. Such surveys should be anonymous anyways.
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Quite a few shops ask you to fill in application forms if you want their discount cards. If they are going to give you the discount card there and then, there is no need for you to give full address. I just put my name, city and province. Same goes for the survey that Chai mentioned. No need to give full address. Some even ask for email and telephone number. No way am I going to give out that kind of information. If they insist, then just write "02 111 1111" and This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it