The proper way to scam people

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2013
The proper way to scam people

Thailand's most updated English news website, newspaper english, breaking news : The Nation

Yes, you’re trying to convince people that they’ll get rich if they move a garden shrub or stay home on “unlucky Thursdays”, but you ought to at least be ethical about it.
“Feng shui master” Tosaporn “Sinsae Chang” Sritula tells Praew magazine that he could be a lot more famous if he revealed the names of the famous people who consult him. “But I’m not going to do that because I consider it an ‘evil’ marketing strategy,” says the landscaping wizard.
Nor is he given to classic scams like borrowing a posh car and telling people you’re wealthy because you follow astrology, as they should. And he doesn’t predict that any celebrity couples are about to break up. “I don’t know why those fortune-tellers feel good about making other people miserable.”
Sinsae Chang stresses that stargazers shouldn’t be “predicting the future” anyway. They should read the charts, shake the bones or whatever, see which different actions will have specific different results, and offer you a choice of actions.
What he’s read in Thailand’s immediate future isn’t war or snow, as someone else forecast, but guiding stars pointing in two “extreme ways – double good or double bad”.
Talk about sitting on the psychic fence!

Totally missed that
Since his award-winning role in Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s “Fun Bar Karaoke” in 1997, Thai-Scottish actor Ray MacDonald has done a movie a year on average. “Khun Nai Ho” and “Tee Sam 3D (“3AM)” are the latest.
He was also busy for a while hosting a travel show on free TV, but the comedy “Khun Nai Ho” was supposed to be the topic when he and the rest of the cast appeared on Channel 3’s “Tonight Show”. Ray wasn’t saying much, so host Tripop Limpapan prodded him about the travel show now recycling on TrueVisions.
“Yes, everyone’s been watching my reruns – I wonder if anyone ever watched it when it first aired!” said Ray. He’d produced a DVD and 2,000 copies to sell, he added, “and now there are about 2,000 left.”