Attractive profiles on Tinder, Bumble, Thai Cupid, and social media apps match with tourists and begin an extended conversation. After building emotional connection over days or weeks, the person asks for money: a sick relative, hospital bill, rent, or motorbike repair. Amounts start small and escalate. A newer variant involves the 'romance' interest steering you toward a 'great investment opportunity' (pig-butchering scam), where the emotional trust makes you more likely to deposit money into a fraudulent trading platform. Many of these operations run from organized call centers, sometimes outside Thailand. The same operator typically runs multiple concurrent 'relationships.'
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