Scammed in Thailand: He built HER 2 HOUSES! SHE Disappeared!

I want to say first that I wasn't going to make this video and had decided against it. However; Steve insisted I publish this as a learning tool for those looking for love in Thailand.

The quick story of how I became involved. Steve is a viewer and recognized our nail shop was near his Thai family that he hadn't heard from before Covid. He asked if we could come bring his contact info. No problem! Oh my, how wrong I was. So, although I thought I was reuniting a Thai family, you will soon see how I came up with the title He built his Thailand girlfriend TWO Houses and she DISAPPEARED! 2020

Life in Thailand is not about building a house for your Thai family, it's about helping yourself. Taking care of. aThai giirlfriieend is not expensive. The family is not your problem. IF they make it your problem, move on.

What actually happened? Steve had been in a relationship with his Thai girlfriend for several years and built her family TWO houses. They stopped communicating after he left for Covid back to his country. So... we walked into a totally different situation than I expected. I hope this video acts as Thailand advice that will be of value to you. I have heard of many with Thai girlfriend problems and have been victim of Thai scams early on, so this hit close to home. Life in Thailand is supposed to be fun, you came here for a better Thai life. Not a worse one.

Summary, the girl he was dating likely had a Thai husband already and was tasked by her mother to find resources for the family by working at a bar where foreigners frequent. The family caused her daughter to use Steve to build houses, buy a new motorcycle et cetera. As soon has he left, she found another foreigner to build yet even more and he is here now, riding the motorcycle Steve purchased.

Here is what he says in his own words:
I meet "her" in 2016/17. A familiar story in that I was on Thai Cupid after my last breakup. Not really looking for anything serious. I’ve visited Thailand loads over the years. Love the food and the people so thought it would be interesting to chat with some Thai girls. She wasn’t like any of the other girls in that she seemed really down to earth and interested in a friendship to begin with, which was great as far as I was concerned. I knew she lived with her parents, had no kids and used to be a teacher so her English was great with no awkward needing google translate to hold a conversation.
I met her in Khon Kaen a couple of times while I was on vacation and the friendship developed into something more.
She’d been married to a Chinese guy but they’d got divorced 5 years before we met. She said she never really loved him and kicked him out after 8 years or so. I knew the family was poor but she said she didn’t even take a divorce settlement from her ex. So I thought she really put emotions etc over money.
I started getting seriously involved when she said she had the opportunity to buy the piece of land next to hers at a good price. So I leant her the money. (Obviously not technically a loan since I ain’t getting it back). Then she wanted a better house to live in when I visited so I paid for that. Then she felt bad because her parents didn’t have a nice place to sleep in etc etc. (in hindsight I can see how this looks now). I’d asked her to marry me and we’d talked about it often. She said she had to wait to finalize the land and house papers because if she changed her name it would confuse matters too much. (No. I didn’t understand that as a reason for postponing marriage either).
I was bouncing back between Australia and Thailand at this point and forwarding money when I could (I’m sure you know how it is). Then June last year she said the immigration rules where getting more strict and I’d have to leave for longer than usual. Around October she said she had the opportunity to go to Bangkok to do some government work which would bring in lots of money for us and we’d be all sorted by new year, I could come back, we’d get married, everything would be great etc.
The communication started to trail off around Xmas. Once the first signs of covid were showing I was getting pretty antsy and saying I should come over before I get locked down. She stopped all communication at this point. Then I contacted her mother. She said everything was fine and I’d be able to come over soon. Then the world went to hell in a hand basket. I’d been visiting my brother in UK and suddenly I was stuck here and unable to fly out. And no one from her family answered my calls or responded to my messages. Which brought me round to you.
I genuinely spent the last few months thinking she’d died in a car crash or had cancer. I feel like I’ve been through the whole grieving process for someone who’s not dead! This outcome was the last thing on my mind.