Category Archives: scam

Balloon Fuck-Up

October 19, 2009 – 11:47 pm

America doesn’t produce much these days. Our cars suck and even Wall Street is a scam. Our only true GNP product is fat people and fuck-ups. None better than the father of the Colorado balloon boy. Police were alerted to the potential danger of a 6 year-old boy somehow seeking a wizard of oz escape […]

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Bangkok Sapphire Scams

August 12, 2009 – 6:13 am

I worked for 17 years as a diamond salesman for 13 years on West 47th Street in Manhattan. Our company specialized in diamonds, however we sold anything; watches, chains, pearls, rubies, emeralds, and sapphires. We bought anything too and had a good client base since we were relatively honest. A side deal here and there […]

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Cobra Swamp Airport Sting

July 21, 2009 – 11:22 pm

The recent arrest of a British couple at Bangkok’s Cobra Snake Airport has reached the ears of the BBC who has issued a warning to travellers about the dangers of being scammed at Thailand’s largest airport. The couple had been arrested on charges that they had stolen a wallet from the notorious King Power Duty-Free. […]

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Knockout Romance

July 14, 2009 – 11:04 pm

These images were accompanied by the Thai words: DO YOU KNOW? Coke+Ajinomoto Can be Used to Rape Ladies. This rumor has been circulating through the Internet by non-scientific bloggers as if it were the truth. Coke and Ajinomoto have denied any link to date rapes, although some people’s physical make-up would be more susceptible to […]

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Do Not Pass Go

July 11, 2009 – 1:06 am

Andrew Drummond reports online that over 160 tourists have been scammed by King Power over the past few months. Sales staff have called police after tourist have wandered out of their sales area in the kilometer-long gauntlet of duty-free shop in Cobra Swamp Airport. Despite King Power’s refuting the charges against two British citizens with […]

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