Throughout the few weeks I've been in Kathmandu, I have constantly been approached by people either trying to sell things, or trying to take me places that I don't want to go. I have no issue with salesmen, that's a good marketing tactic, but lying to people saying you're a student, but in fact you're trying to drag tourists to somewhere to get commission, is just totally dishonest.
These guys don't even remember who they are telling the lies to. Not only did the guy in the yellow jacket forget me, the next guy did too! In Tanya's video, he was trying the same tactic on me, but also, he'd even tried it the day before. They completely forget who they try to scam.
Just avoid these guys if they approach you with the script I reeled off at the start. "Go away, I've seen videos of you doing this, leave me alone."
Just a bit of advice, you need to get a bit aggressive off camera or they do not leave you alone. I had to threaten one of them because he wouldn't leave us alone and just kept following us. I didn't have my camera with me.
First guy, the Indian guy. He was a liar. He literally asked me to give him money for his family, then asked me to buy him food when I said no. He is dishonest, and very persistent. "Scam: a dishonest scheme; a fraud." What this guy is doing is clearly dishonest, he is lying to try to make money, rather than giving the real reason that he's being friendly. This is a scam. He even used the same opening line on me the first time "do you have small roads like this in your country?"
Second guy, seems pretty friendly, but he approached me three times within three days and had no idea he'd done it before. This guy at least tried to explain that he wanted to take me somewhere to show me something.
The young guy I'd never seen before, but he was confused as to why he hadn't seen me in 3 weeks, surely he would have seen me to try to pull this sales tactic out? See how he was confused? Maybe not a scammer, but definitely a liar with a poor sales tactic. This one has gone out of his way to try to get the video removed, but is insistent that he did nothing wrong. Well, if he did nothing wrong, then the video shouldn't be an issue... Yep, exactly. Not only this, he even messaged Kurt Caz to ask him to ask me to remove the video, delete his part, but leave the others in, then re-upload. 😆
The spa guy wasn't a scammer or anything, he was just a salesman, he showed me pretty quickly what his service was but I'm already aware that spas in Kathmandu are sometimes fronts for human trafficking. Sometimes, maybe not this guy, but still beware.
The drunk or drugged guy "REMEMBER ME?", he's a tour guide, not scam in sight but he slurs his words and literally has stains on his jacket from whatever drug he's consuming.
Drug salesman at the end. The guy who asked if I wanted some fun? He meant did I need him to find me a prostitute, definitely related to trafficking. He quickly changed his question to something about trekking.
It's very annoying trying to enjoy this part of the city when idiots like these are constantly harassing you. Just tell them straight away to go away, don't let them waste your time.
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16 сен 2024
