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    Air Pollution - Pattaya

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    CURRENT AIR QUALITY

    TODAY

    2/27

    55
    AQI

     

     

    Poor

    The air has reached a high level of pollution and is unhealthy for sensitive groups. Reduce time spent outside if you are feeling symptoms such as difficulty breathing or throat irritation.

    Based on Current Pollutants

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    Recomended TV Programs to Watch from Live TV and Streaming Services (Threads Merged)

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    1 hour ago, ChiFlyer said:

    Pig Butchering Scams

    https://mashable.com/video/john-oliver-pig-butchering-online-scam

    John Oliver's main segment on the most recent episode of his "Last Week Tonight" show focused on an escalating scam known as "Pig Butchering". I was stunned by the reported numbers related to this scam especially considering that a large percentage of the victims probably do not report this due to being ashamed of being fooled in this manner.

    I also did not know that IT persons are being recruited and then forced into scam labor camps that they can not escape from. Thailand is a popular recruiting destination with the then captured person placed in a Myanmar forced labor scam camp. The prisoners work 16 hours a day making scam calls etc. or are beaten.

    It got me to thinking that I may well have been the target of one such scam. A very pretty GLD trader out of Hong Kong accidentally called me by mistake. hmmm. She tried like hell slowly over time to get me to open a GLD trading account. Something about the situation did not seem quite right. After a few months of me saying "not my thing" she got po'd and left me alone. She did send me a few enticing pics to keep the conversation going. Or some guy posing as her did. Nice pics anyway.

    oh btw, she (maybe he) tried to reestablish contact today after about 6 months. I may try and work her/him for more information that I can hand off to some kind of governmental authority, though I have no idea who that might be. Maybe at a minimum I could get a few more enticing pics. 🙂 I would post said pics here, but they were not all that great. 

    I have been told that Hong Kong is fairly dishonest with regard to various agents falsely using customer's funds.    

    Watch this in the afternoon today...

     

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