Travel Agent Scammer Gambles Away Tour Group Money

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Travel Agent Scammer Gambles Away Tour Group Money

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Cambodia Breaking News (Phnom Penh): On 25 June 2019, police detained 33-year-old Hoss Thol, manager of the Inside Out Tour Travel Company at 39C, House 454, Group 24, Village 4, Sangkat Tuol Tumpoung I, Khan Chamkar Mon.

Ms Thol is accused of scamming a group of Cambodian tourists who paid for a 6 night and 7 day tour to China. The tour group left Cambodia and got as far as Hong Kong, where they were informed that the tour company did not have enough money to pay for their accommodation. The tourists were very unhappy and took their passports to fly back to Cambodia, where they reported the company to the police after the woman refused to give them their money back.
On being questioned by the police, Ms Thol admitted that she could not pay back the customers because she had gambled away all the money.
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Travel Agent Arrested for Scams is Back in Business, Allegedly Stealing From Foreigners
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Phnom Penh, Cambodia News: A Cambodian woman travel agent, Ms Hoes Thol, who is the owner and operator of the Inside Out Tours company in Phnom Penh, has been accused on social media of taking money from foreigners for visa extensions that she does not deliver. It was previously reported that she has money problems due to a heavy gambling habit.
(See the OP above or link below. The woman admitted that she gambled away over $100,000 paid by tour clients, leaving them high and dry.)
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A social media account says this, one of several allegations of fraud from foreigners on the Phnom Penh and Expat Forum who dealt with Inside Out Travel :
From the travel agent:
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From the customer:
I also have been a victim here. Paid 580 dollars to her. She gave my passports to some other agency and now they are demanding I pay 1050 dollars to get my passports back from them.
It is interesting that this tour agent is still in business, after it was reported that Ms Thol scammed a tour group of Cambodian tourists out of at least US$100,000 in June 2019, and appeared before Phnom Penh Court in July 2019, charged with fraud and breach of trust, and that if convicted, she faced a possible jail sentence of up to three years. However, she is apparently still in business in Phnom Penh, so be aware.
Article from KT, June 2019: https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50618918/t ... d-of-fraud
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Re: Travel Agent Scammer Gambles Away Tour Group Money

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I will go over to this wonderful travel agent and book the “trip of a lifetime“ and after that a nice massage in street 19, all that with a stash of the money which is lying on the altar of my girlfriend.
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