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I've just become super suspicious and distrustful of anyone who attempts to talk to me while traveling anywhere... ESPECIALLY if they start speaking English. It's kind of sad to get that jaded, but thems the breaks. It's tough to learn what's normal friendliness for a culture until you've been there a while. I was in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic and Dominicans are legitimately very open and friendly people, who will totally offer you drinks, food, etc. However, in the resort areas you'd have to be on alert. Sometimes Haitian kids would start shining your shoes without you even asking and then demand money. Fortunately it was culturally acceptable to cuss out kids... I guess it's not a scam, per se, but getting ripped off as a foreigner is pretty annoying and harder to avoid.
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