General Mackevili wrote:Is Diego G. Aviles Acosta just as dishonest as these Filipino Blackjack Scammers?

The scammers told him that they were going to scam a lady, show him how they will do it, and he willingly participated in scamming her.

What a piece of shit. He's a scammer, dishonest, and a cheat, all by his own admission.

I feel bad for people who visit their home, take no part in a scam and get marched to a ATM, but he just joined in on the scam to steal $15,000 from the lady to put in his own pocket.

Then, just in case we weren't convinced that he was the dumbest thief ever, he says, "Gee, I think I'll publish an article for the local paper so that EVERYONE will know that I am a scammer and tried to cheat a woman of her money, but was too stupid to realize I was the mark."

is right.

The Khmer Times is a joke. They decide they want to push some particular narrative, then choose clearly terrible examples to drive the story. A couple of months ago it was the Singlet Twins, that doe-eyed photo and their transparently fabricated tale as an example of "The Face of Foreign Crime Victims." Now we've got this wannabe rip-off artist as an example of the dangers of "following your heart incautiously," as if his problem is that he is just too open and trusting. I'm not sure if KT is naive, inept, ironic or just doesn't bother reading its own copy before publishing it. I wonder if they'll eventually realize how stupid this story looks and pull it like the embarrassing Singlets story. Or maybe they are trying to make blackjack scam victims look dishonest by letting him dig an ironic hole for himself with his own words. I'm not sure what they are doing.

Sailorman wrote:"You can't cheat an honest man"
George C. Scott
The Flim-Flam Man.

predated decades before by W.C. Fields, but FFM is a good movie

Reporting standards in Cambodia, in the English language press, are a joke across the board. The Phnom Penh Post's outright theft of a Guardian expose on Cambodia was just one highlight of the lack of skills and talent brought to bear in the media here. The trouble is that you come to Cambodia as a washed up failure in journalism circles. There's nothing to interest any quality journalist here - so it's failed hacks and wannabes without any talent that handle the nation's reporting.

Diego G. Aviles Acosta is an idiot and yes, a scheming cheat in his own right. But... an awareness piece on the issue isn't completely a bad thing. While he seems to have been a willing victim, there are reported cases where bullying and intimidation are used in this scam. And if nothing else, the piece creates a sense of schadenfreude in the reader.

The angle that has been consistently ignored is police involvement/collusion.

That supremely streetwise guy, gavinmac, accused me of being a conspiracy theorist when i suggested same on backslappers.com, but any normal person would say it's glaringly obvious.

Everybody that has been scammed has been scammed because of their own innate greed. That is what these scams are about. That's what they use to play one FFS. So, your saying this story and stories like it shouldn't be published because they show the scammed to be as bad as the scammers? Come on...
Perhaps LLTO can post an example of someone who hasn't been scammed by using the sweet taste of things to come?
Most people don't even tell their friends they have been scammed, let alone the newspapers. Good on him I say, and a great ploy by the scammers. I myself would have been sorely tempted at having a go at ripping a rich Asian business woman off, on their portrayed stereo type of being one of the evilest people in Asia alone.

TheGrinchSR wrote: an awareness piece on the issue isn't completely a bad thing. While he seems to have been a willing victim, there are reported cases where bullying and intimidation are used in this scam. And if nothing else, the piece creates a sense of schadenfreude in the reader.

Exactly, they use psychological tricks, the same as a lot of Asians shop keepers lol. Remember the Indian cold readers on the Khaosan Rd? Saw one of them in SNVL a few months ago. Looks like the army must have turfed him out. I basically tell them to go fuck your mother.

vladimir wrote:The angle that has been consistently ignored is police involvement/collusion.

That supremely streetwise guy, gavinmac, accused me of being a conspiracy theorist when i suggested same on backslappers.com, but any normal person would say it's glaringly obvious.

I would have to agree with you there Vlad. Hard to see a any situation to do with money where the cops wouldn't be involved.

juansweetpotato wrote:Everybody that has been scammed has been scammed because of their own innate greed. That is what these scams are about. That's what they use to play one FFS. So, your saying this story and stories like it shouldn't be published because they show the scammed to be as bad as the scammers? Come on...

No, I'm saying that if the intent was to make the victims out to be wannabe cheats, they chose a strange headline to highlight it. OTOH, if the intent was to show how it can be dangerous 'to follow ones heart incautiously', like I said above, they picked the wrong example (again), because that guy is a wannabe thief, not an incautious romantic. Then again, it's little more than a blog post. Still don't know what they are doing there at KT.

TheGrinchSR wrote:Reporting standards in Cambodia, in the English language press, are a joke across the board. The Phnom Penh Post's outright theft of a Guardian expose on Cambodia was just one highlight of the lack of skills and talent brought to bear in the media here. The trouble is that you come to Cambodia as a washed up failure in journalism circles. There's nothing to interest any quality journalist here - so it's failed hacks and wannabes without any talent that handle the nation's reporting.

KT is on a completely different level of journalism from the PPP and CD (if it is even 'jounalism at all), so KT aside, if blame is to be laid on the journos for the quality of the reporting in the EL press here, I always thought the problem wasn't washedup hacks (I'm not even sure who that could be) but with a particularly young, inexperienced and transient journo corp at the beginnings of their carreers.

General Mackevili wrote:

I know google isn't the most reliable translator, but this made me laugh:



It's also possibly the worst looking Khmer script tattoo I've ever seen - have they filled in the vowel ិ?