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[quote=GUEST79211,256669]I read about this scam in Shanghai where you meet a girl and she says "let's have lunch and split the bill" then she takes you to an expensive place and hits you with the tab. you don't realize it until later.. the girl works for the place.

that is not what happened to me.

what happend to me is that I was lost, so i took out my map, knowing it might make me look like a tourist, but i had no choice. and i thought what good luck as this group of studnets offered to help me and we got to chatting and they seemed very nice and they asked me if i wanted to come wtih them to a "tea ceremony" so i said yes and then we walk 10 minutes and enter this small room with a woman in a fancy uniform and the woman shows me the prices, it was pricey, a fortune
here.

After we said goodbye i became convicned this was a scam and my host told me this happened to her last guest (why didn't she tell me about this?!!)

I feel like such an idiot.

i know i will get past this and accept that this sort of thing can happen  when you travel, but it leaves a sour taste.

i feel like i can't be as open and trusting as i was before.

i have been analyzing my thoughts and feelings about it - rather than just feeling bad, I am trying to learn from it... one obvious thing is
that there are ups and downs and you cannot have the good without the bad, so one good or bad thing is only part of the alrger picture.

secondly, i think most peole would have fallen for this trick. they seemed so real, so honest, i mean the guy he walked past the place as if he didn't know it was there! they acted as if they wer hearing about the ceremony for the first time, joking with me, translating what the uniformed woman was saying, it was like we were bonding. these guys are the best actors i have ever met

i wish i had just walked away...
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