Originally Posted by Oliver
Thanks Nirishguy. This has caused me some distress....I wish I'd not received that phone call. And that P. hadn't been offered the prize. In the eleven years we've been together very rarely has he asked me for money; I hated saying no.
I have talked through with him the reasons why I'm not prepared to provide the money. And he has accepted it, though I know he was disappointed. If it is a scam, then I hope the perpetrators are caught before others suffer. And if it's not, surely LINE should be aware that expecting rural Thais to come up with large sums of money is unrealistic? In the UK, competitions like this usually offer a cash alternative.