Indian fortune tellers wander around shops, pestering them to tell their fortunes before demanding money.

A woman who owns a smoothie shop posted a warning to be careful of Indian fortune tellers who stalk shop owners in Mueang Nonthaburi District, asking them to tell fortunes, ask for money, and ward off bad luck. A CCTV clip inside a smoothie shop captured a tall man who looked like a guest walking in to talk to the owner and ask for a fortune telling. They talked for a while before the man handed the owner an envelope, who then returned the envelope before walking out of the shop. After the incident, the news team went to the area to ask Ms. Pancharat, 30 years old, the owner of a smoothie shop in the Wat Chaloem Phra Kiat area, Mueang District, Nonthaburi. The owner of the post gave information that at 1:30 p.m. on August 2, while she was in the shop with her two younger brothers, a man who looked like an Indian, tall and large, walked up to her and handed her an envelope with 199 baht written on it, claiming that he was going to have his fortune told, and then said that he was having bad luck and would ha ve two lovers at the same time. He then turned to look at his younger brother who was standing there because he misunderstood that his younger brother was his girlfriend, which made her feel unhappy. She refused to have her fortune told, but the Indian fortune teller tried to get close to her and asked her to give him her hand so he could read her palm. She refused again because she thought he had bad intentions. The Indian fortune teller pointed at her face and said that she was a bad person and a liar many times until she started to get scared. She decided to put 20 baht in the envelope and give it to the Indian fortune teller, but he looked at her with an unhappy expression, so she had to tell him to leave the shop. After she posted the story on social media, many people commented. Some said they had seen an Indian man in this manner walking around various places in Nonthaburi Province. Some people believed the Indian fortune teller and ended up spending tens of thousands of baht to have their bad luck re moved. Luckily, he mistakenly said that her younger brother was her boyfriend. So they started to suspect that he was just someone who tricked them into having their fortune told in order to collect money and trick them into spending money to remove their bad luck. Indian fortune tellers often travel around to tell fortunes. The news team traveled to another coffee shop owned by Ms. Korakanok, 30, which is next to the smoothie shop. She revealed that this Indian man had also visited her shop, but at that time she was busy and the shop had many customers. It seemed like he tried to invite her to have his fortune told, but she was busy, so she refused and asked him to leave the shop because she was afraid that he would disturb the customers sitting in the shop. In the past, this Indian fortune teller often came to invite her to have her fortune told, and she refused every time. She has never paid him a single baht. If he walks around the shops asking for fortune told like this, if there is a woman in any shop , she thinks it is dangerous Source: Thai News Agency