All sorts of other "dirty tricks" were reported. In Songkhla, it was alleged that canvassers hired people to "spread vicious rumours" about their political rivals, sitting in coffee shops to gossip about politics. These "professional liars” it was alleged, were paid Bt200 per day. Reports of a variant on this approach came from Bangkok, where PDP candidates accused their rivals of hiring groups of young people, dressing them similarly to PDP canvassers, and sending them door-knocking at 2am or 3am, to ask residents to vote for PDP. The Interior Ministry also believed it had uncovered a plot whereby some candidates made arrangements to buy off all officials staffing certain polling nooths, rather than bothering with individuals. Chamlong accused the three major parties of extensive vote-buying in the Northeast, claiming that: "Motorcycles, pick-up trucks and Buddha amulets were given out to canvassers and pain killers, fish sauce and 10 baht cash were distributed to poor villagers.
Some candidates hosted banquets and then gave out money to community leaders. “ He also complained that several kamnan and village leaders were canvassing, and on several occasions his party's campaign had been disrupted when opposing parties had moved their trucks close to his and turned up their loudspeaker volumes, Dirty tricks, indeed! Finally, as election neared, there were complaints from the Northeast, North and South, that printers had been approached to print fake ballot paper.
Apart from all the accusations, there was one telling statistic about the level of electoral spending. ABank of Thailand report just before election day showed that about Bt3 billion had been transferred from Bangkok to the provinces over the preceding few weeks, Normally, banks send out Bt8-10 billion to provinces at the end of each month, but this amount returns within seven or eight days. In February, Bt9 billion had gone out, but only Bt6 billion had returned It was believed that the balance was being held for last-minute payments near or on election day. The branch of one bank reported that a client had withdrawn 45 million baht, and had instructed bank staff to pack the money in bundles of five one hundred baht notes, it was believed that the money was destined for vote-buying at 500 baht per head.
By mid-March, had received 350 complaints, of which most concerned the distribution of money and gifts by canvassers." On the eve of the election, the Commission was confident that it had sufficient evidence to prosecute 10 candidates, and it had recommended the investigation of 48 kamnan for failing to remain neutral.