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Big game hunting is a topic that is guaranteed to garner attention on the internet. Recently an image purportedly showing a new sign installed on the side of a road in Thailand appeared to warn residents about roaming billionaires (along with seemingly mocking symbol of an obese hunter) was posted online. It wasn't surprising to see it spread quickly across social media: The Beware of Billionaire sign above is a digital creation. One would expect for government installed signs in Thailand to have similar design qualities. However, the words Beware of Billionaire on this sign are written in a different sized font than the Beware of Elephants sign. The fake sign also has rounded edges, where as the elephants signs edges are squared. Lastly, you can see the markings where the elephants sign was installed to the pole. The Beware of Billionaire sign, on the other hand, has no such markings: A larger version of this image was posted to the Facebook page ชมรมแพทย์ชนบท, a page supporting rural clinics in Thailand, on 10 February 2018. It appears that the image was cropped in order to remove a watermark reading Mao@Muaklek: We attempted to track down Mao@MuakLek but couldn't locate the apparent image creator. In fact, it appears that this watermark may have been the result of a mistranslation: Muak Lek is a province in Thailand and a Twitter posting credited this image to Cr.คุณ mao@muaklek (translated to Khun Mao @ Muaklek). It seems that this image was taken in Muak Lek rather than by MuakLek. Regardless of who was responsible for creating this image, the Beware of Billionaire sign is fake. The Thai web site Spring News posted a genuine version of this image: The Beware of Billionaire sign went viral in February 2018 shortly after construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta was arrested in Thailand for hunting in a protected wildlife sanctuary. The Washington Post reported:
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