by youngwill100 » Fri Jul 20, 2018 8:54 am
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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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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