I have never internationally set up a date with some anonymous Thai girl as shamelessly advertised on ajarn.com. Just what is the protocol nowadays? I remember about ten years ago when the Thai bargirls got in on the act, creating flattering profiles that your lone bloke back in the UK or wherever would believe is the real thing, potential love. Some men I know were pouring their cash down these drains in a belief that one of those stunners in the pictures would meet them at their airport gate upon arrival.

Most weren't the girls in the pictures but just run of the mill ugly knackered girls from bars, trained up by a 'friend' they are often on the phone to a lot, a cyber mamasan, of sorts.


This.....in reality, is most probably...

This.

I accompanied one friend on his date he'd arranged from the UK, he'd been told by the girl that she needed 25,000 Baht to move to a new apartment, that he eagerly wired over, and he subsequently never saw the apartment. At the meeting I could tell within 20 seconds that she was a lady of the night, and a badly dressed, over made up one at that. I told him I suspected this and asked the girl in Thai a few simple questions. She had told him she was a hostess on Thai airways, and if she was then standards had slipped, unless she specifically was put on the Bkk-Udon flight, where she wouldn't look out of place.

But no, she sure wasn't an air hostess, and the charade lasted a few minutes with her ''I sure..I work bin Thai.ka ka..'' pleads, I got irritated and fed up of her obvious bargirl vocabulary of Thai, of which my mate was unaware of, so I warned my mate and left. I didn't want to completely piss all over the date, but as it turned out they didn't get along and she had already brought up a financial related topic minutes after I'd walked away.

She told him that he had promised 20,000 Baht as the ''gift'' for the date and that it had also cost her 2000 Baht in the taxi across town that evening and that if he could give it to her now, she would be able to transfer it to her 'friend' and then their date could then unfold as normal. He gave it to her, and she promptly disappeared at the Emporium, leaving him seated upstairs at the foodcourt, with a food bill of over a thousand Baht.

Of course it's not all doom and gloom, many older guys want companions for later life and are not short of a few bob, so will take all the bullshit some girls come out with. Some are very lucky and find the 'one' who is genuine, caring and not under any scam of any sort. But be warned.