by Petrol Head » Thu Jun 30, 2016 4:06 pm
Stagger Lee wrote:tuk-tukfish wrote:It's always struck me as strange that, in a region famous for fraudulent, er, EVERYTHING why no one has thought to counterfeit visa's before. As sad as it is true there's a huge market of washed-up degenerates needing this service. The cambodian Visa ain't exactly hard to replicate and the staff at customs is useless.
Back in the day...Cambodian visas were ink stamps, not the current format (paper + adhesive, with debatably inferior glue). And ink stamps could be made to order, directly from shops, or ordered from stalls on/around Monivong. A bit risky, treading on toes of those whose income stream this would be disrupting...
.... but it was tried (NOT by me) and a service was offered (NOT by me either) on the hush-hush.
You're not wrong about the adhesive - it's officially the worst in ASEAN according to my little study.
Leafing through an old passport, the full pagers from Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar were all hanging in there. The Cambodian ones were peeling off worse than the livery on a North Korean missile.
[quote="Stagger Lee"][quote="tuk-tukfish"]It's always struck me as strange that, in a region famous for fraudulent, er, EVERYTHING why no one has thought to counterfeit visa's before. As sad as it is true there's a huge market of washed-up degenerates needing this service. The cambodian Visa ain't exactly hard to replicate and the staff at customs is useless.[/quote]
Back in the day...Cambodian visas were ink stamps, not the current format (paper + adhesive, with debatably inferior glue). And ink stamps could be made to order, directly from shops, or ordered from stalls on/around Monivong. A bit risky, treading on toes of those whose income stream this would be disrupting... :axe: .... but it was tried (NOT by me) and a service was offered (NOT by me either) on the hush-hush.[/quote]
You're not wrong about the adhesive - it's officially the worst in ASEAN according to my little study.
Leafing through an old passport, the full pagers from Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar were all hanging in there. The Cambodian ones were peeling off worse than the livery on a North Korean missile.