Does this character resemble someone who likes to dress as Chewbacca?
I would hope not. John the Canadian was stereotyped as a really sleazy backpacker and English teacher.
Joe and Reiner are but two of the many contacts Gilboa makes at the Majestic. They fit into Gilboa’s adventurer category of flotsam expats. The adventurers dabble in the girls, guns, and ganja but they have skills to operate outside Cambodia, a place in the mid-90s where teaching four hours of English a day, sober or not, could earn you a living.
People are easily tricked.
[!quote] focustaiwan.tw
Taiwanese woman befriended a man known as A-hsing online and was flying to Cambodia to see him.
A-hsing apparently lured Shih into a honey trap through sweet talk and convinced her to travel to Cambodia by telling her she could use the trip to explore prospective job opportunities, adding that all expenses for her trip and subsequent tours would be fully covered.
APB officers provided Shih with information on similar scams and human trafficking cases in an effort to persuade her to change her mind.
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I wonder how many of the prospective victims just try again or if they take it to heart.
There’s that Jim Browning video where the old guy is warned at a Home Depot in the US not to get 10k worth of gift cards and then afterwards he continues talking to the scammer and seems to agree to try it again at a different location.
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What’s amazing to me is that TPE airport authorities were able to identify her case as high risk, and then intervene and persuade her, right at the airport, not to go.
I wonder if the one-way ticket part was the key variable.
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What is amazing to me is that nobody in her family stopped her earlier. Really scary what could have happened.
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What is continually amazing to me is how despite my cynicism regarding most people’s stupidity, they so often surpass my lowest expectations.
They probably have ai looking for patterns that alerts authorities to stuff like this. It may include posts or whatever made to social media platforms.
You can be critical to the government but they seem pragmatic and practical at times.
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