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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]poster who was targeted for the tea house scam here again

More specifics about my situation:
I'm American but my brother was living in Shanghai for a year for his job, and I was there to visit him.   He still had to work during the day so I was on my own, touring the city.  This was my first day there and I was still really exhausted from travel.
I had just left the Shanghai museum when two young people (college age) approached me.  It was a girl and a boy and the girl did all the talking.  They asked me to take their photo and after I did the girl started telling me how the boy was her friend and they were both students.   That he was visiting her from a different part of China and they had heard about a "tea festival" and they were on their way there.   They invited me to go with them and "experience culture."
I actually LOVE meeting people from different countries and cultures and honestly if it had been a different day I might have fallen for it and gone along.   They seemed very sweet and friendly.  But I was just so tired and wanted to go back to my brother's apartment to rest so I declined.  It wasn't until much later that I was reading online and realized I dodged a bullet.[/quote]

What do you think they would have done to you? [/quote]

Did you read my previous post immediately before that?
They would have brought me to a tea house (one that was owned/operated by their co-scammers.)   The menu would not have had prices and many different teas would have been brought to the table for us to try even if we didn't order them.   Then the girl would have said that she and her friend are students with not much money and try to get me to pay most or all of the bill.   When the bill would come, it would be for hundreds of dollars (WAY more than tea should cost) and if I tried to back out of paying, some aggressive men would have shown up to "encourage" me to pay up.[/quote]

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