I have seen at least two people now post messages on Thailand (also known as ) File:Flag of Thailand.svg travel forums about this scam, so I thought that I would repost it here. You can read the whole thread here from the Thai visa forum. The guy told the shop owner he would just get a new passport, which the shop owner countered that she would sell his passport on the black market. Reporting the problem to the police, didn’t get far.