Is this scam operating in your area ?

It seems that people where I live are being told that if they claim they were communists from way back they are entitled to 300,000 Baht per person. Why communists I cant fathom that bit out? In the next village they are being told they can also have free land down in Sa Kaeo, along the Cambodian border.
To get the 300,000 Baht, each person has to pay 2,000 Baht. My MIL is so convinced that she's applied on behalf of my wife and BIL, and paid the 6,000 Baht. My missus can see it's a scam, but the natives are being swallowed up big style here.
A woman up from me had 100,000 Baht in her bank. She pulled the lot out to pay for other family members which she believes will be repaid once their 300,000 Baht is issued.
Any scams like this going on where you live in monkey land? :)

Still hunting those undesirables under every bed, inside every closet.

Damn Commies.

"The group urged Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to speed up the payment to assist them under the so-called Prime Minister's Office order No. 66/23, a policy that put a political solution before military means to end the communist threat in the 1980s.

La-iad Rattanasri, chairman of Thailand Development Group, said the PM's order at that time agreed to provide communist insurgents with 15 rai of land, five cows and one house as well as a sum of money for them to take up a career and not get involved in creating problems for the country's administration.

He said after they agreed to follow the order, the government ignored them until the Abhisit Vejjajiva-led government issued an order to give them compensation of 225,000 baht each in 2011."

Ex-communists ask for B650,000 | Bangkok Post: news

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Originally Posted by superman

they can also have free land down in Sa Kaeo, along the Cambodian border

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I've figured out the free land bit, may be a bit hard on the cows though:

the landmine situation in Sa Kaeo Province bordering Cambodia, is the most densely mined area in Thailand

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How would one proved they were an ex-Communist?

Any potential for ex-Nazis to cash in with land/house and old cow?

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Originally Posted by superman

Any scams like this going on where you live

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there are hundreds of pitiful creatures coming out and saying they were abused by Jimmy Saville

strangely, people are talking about claiming compensation

anyone that may have met him have now made up stories that he abused them, it is hilarious

whilst he did obviously abuse young teen girls, anyone else is a bit suspect

I used to have red hair, does that count?

yes, he certainly abused you when you were in that kids home

Just wait for the furore when Valerie Singleton gets outed.

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Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Still hunting those undesirables under every bed, inside every closet.

Damn Commies.

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You'll probably have more luck rooting around in the closets in Strasbourg and Brussels.

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Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Still hunting those undesirables under every bed, inside every closet.

Damn Commies.

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Spoken like a true Patriot.

Now go and watch a Jane Fonda movie, will ya? :rolleyes:

^ which one do you like best?

Barbarella for me

My ex is a alcoholic lapsed catholic of Irish descent. Surely I'm entitled to something?

^ A refund?

Without my input she'd just be a lapsed catholic of Irish descent

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Originally Posted by DrAndy

^ which one do you like best?

Barbarella for me

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Mine too! :)