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In New Delhi, some unsuspecting Dutch dudes I roomed with not only got the "your hostel is closed for holiday," they got shown a bootleg Lonely Planet book that had a phone number listed for their booked hostel that called a different number with a guy on the other end who was in on the scam. Impressive.
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Saladman posted:What actually happens in this scam? Do you just stay in a lovely and overpriced hotel, or do you wake up without your kidneys? Not sure. I can only say what those guys told me in that the scammers overcharge you by a ton with the hotel and keep bilking you with other scams. If the mark is willing to fall for one... The Dutch were taken to a money exchange place that tried to gouge them, but they knew what the rate should be and that's finally when they knew they were getting scammed. They bailed one way or another, wandered around for some time, and eventually stumbled across a cafe that had WiFi.
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