This is been mentioned before on K440, but is worth another warning.
You decide you’d like a nice relaxing massage. You enter one of the massage shops on street 172 (or other tourist areas) and are led to a curtained-off cubicle. You undress, hang up your clothes (often on hooks conveniently near the cubicle entrance) and start to enjoy your one hour khmer oil massage, often given by a chatty cheerful young Khmer woman.
Whilst this is happening, another employee quietly removes some of your money from your wallet in your shorts or trousers. They often take $100 notes and replace them with counterfeit notes or even budha $100 notes.
As you will usually pay for the massage from your smaller dollar notes, you don’t notice the money substitution until later in the day.
This has happened twice recently to customers in our bars. Last night a mildly drunk guy was bewildered as to why the 3 x $100 notes he’d just got from an ATM machine were fake. It just took a little questioning to confirm that after leaving the ATM he had gone into a street 172 massage shop for a massage.
On a previous occasion a few weeks ago a Japanese guy had had $2,000 in $100 notes exchanged with budha money in a riverside massage shop.
So look after your money when you go for a massage. Put your clothes where you can see them at all times, or literally hold on to your wallet during the massage.
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Beware massage money change theft
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The trick is don't take $1000's or even $100's into a dive massage shop.
Always seems to be Chinese or Japanese caught out here, such an amateur mistake. Christ, if you are carrying around that sort of cash go to Bodia or some other high end spa
Always seems to be Chinese or Japanese caught out here, such an amateur mistake. Christ, if you are carrying around that sort of cash go to Bodia or some other high end spa
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The other week I paid for a shirt with a 20 and when the girl was putting it in the till it had 'MARKET' stamped neatly along the short edge. Never knew I had it and she never noticed it either...possibly because she was on her mobile while giving me change. Fake?
Never mind.
It’s still happened yesterday for my friend near street preach sisowat quay . I think all the local massages shops are same goal of making money. Please aware of wallet.
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No way? I thought they just did it out of the goodness of their hearts?Nobody456 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 7:49 pmI think all the local massages shops are same goal of making money.
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I’ve always understood that job to be more of a vocation. You know what they say, ‘find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life’Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 1:19 amNo way? I thought they just did it out of the goodness of their hearts?Nobody456 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 7:49 pmI think all the local massages shops are same goal of making money.
I've seen a few heated arguments recently as tourism has picked up. They expect it to be Thai-like massages. Not such a happy end in the Kow....
Since covid there has been an increase in "massage" shops. Bkk1/Riverside real estate is a thousand (or several) rent a month. A massage costs 10.000 riel. Do the math, they must have other money making activities. The interesting question is, who are behind these new massage shops?
Cops apparently get a cut of what ever can be lifted off the customers. So trying to have them intervene is pointless. Besides that you run the risk of ending up in some Khmer newspaper with a nice photo or video while negotiating. I would not be surprised if at some point these ladies run into the wrong customer. Play stupid games, win stupid prices. That goes for both the customer and the lady.
Since covid there has been an increase in "massage" shops. Bkk1/Riverside real estate is a thousand (or several) rent a month. A massage costs 10.000 riel. Do the math, they must have other money making activities. The interesting question is, who are behind these new massage shops?
Cops apparently get a cut of what ever can be lifted off the customers. So trying to have them intervene is pointless. Besides that you run the risk of ending up in some Khmer newspaper with a nice photo or video while negotiating. I would not be surprised if at some point these ladies run into the wrong customer. Play stupid games, win stupid prices. That goes for both the customer and the lady.
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there are often stories in the press about police intervening over ripped off customers.BrownBear wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 11:51 am
Cops apparently get a cut of what ever can be lifted off the customers. So trying to have them intervene is pointless.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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