ReindeerF posted:

That's a good list, looks pretty European. Here are some that roll around SE Asia regularly:

• The blackjack scam where the Filipino befriends you, takes you home for dinner to meet [family member] and ends up teaching you blackjack - downhill from there. [Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines]
  
• Drugging your drink on the bus and stealing your poo poo.
  
• The scam bus from A to B that accidentally always takes too long and will only drop you at a lovely out of town guesthouse. [Bangkok-Cambodia mostly, but happens elsewhere]
  
• Today Buddha holiday, internationally famous tourist attraction closed, but let me take you on a tour. [Mekong region].
  
• Purchasing any kind of real estate, basically, but especially condos near a beach.
  
• Anything a foreigner of your own cultural background offers or tries to "help" you with.
  
• Comedy sick buffalo option.
  

It's hard to remember them all, because once you're not on the tourist trail long enough, they become sort of invisible. Still, these happen often enough that I've read someone mentioning them in the last year.

The best advice over here in Warm Asia is to smile, put some earbuds in and don't talk to anyone who approaches you anywhere you spot a single other foreigner. Learn the local phrase for "no thanks" in every language and practice it to fluency, it's an excellent repellent. Wearing fisherman pants, a backpack and carrying a map is pretty much chumming the water and makes for entertaining results for the rest of us, though. That said, the most common, and biggest scams are always foreigner on foreigner and people who speak your language and look like they might be one of you are your biggest enemy as a newly arrived foreigner - something that's true all over the world.