Were you ever scammed while over seas...?

Kidkinobe wrote: »

I get around a bit and heres my latest experience.
Im a single 50 year old bloke that loves getting around Asia..If you come to my home and knock on my door and no one answers, I am probably somewhere in Asia...
Right now I am in Siem Reap, Cambodia, you older generation might remember the TV ads for the starving children in Cambodia in the 1970s and the Trocaire box collection. There are still many families here getting by on a dollar a day but they are out of sight in the rural areas. I can spend $6/7 on one meal, this would last a family in rural Cambodia week.
In fact one night I spent close to $25 and that was the night of the scam..
I was on Tinder and hit a match, she was a South African girl, teaching in Cambodia, here 2 years, 32 years old, single obviously, recently divorced or so she told me.
We got chatting and decided to meet, she is like 20 years younger than me and it was just going to be a few drinks and a chat on a random Monday night.
We met as planned and she was a breeze to get along with, easy going, friendly, chatty, polite etc etc...Now like I say, I have been around the block and have gotten into and out of some dodge situations in Asia and they all involved women off the internet, but this lady seemed legit and friendly and a bit of a looker to boot.

Siem Reap is well known for its MArijuana and the topic came up if I took the odd toke...Sure, I don't go out and buy it but if there is some wafting around in the air, I will be happy to share a toke, so she asked me if I want some...I was a bit hesitant at first as it was getting on in the night but she twisted my arm.
So off we went, down these back streets about 11pm at night walking further and further from the safety of the tourist zone, where tourist like me buy the over priced food and drinks.
On the way there she was on the phone to a friend to come join us, her friend was from Spain, mid 30s and also a teacher. So thats two teachers out on a Monday night smoking weed..

We arrived at the little hut which had a coulee of dodgy looking westerner hippies sitting out front, clearly off their frikken heads on weed or perhaps something a little stronger like opium.
This joint had a bar and a couple of sofas and random chairs scattered about, all very cosy.
I ordered 2 whiskeys and coke, $1 each, and she ordered a big fat doobie, $2.
And we sat and lit up..first draw for me led to a coughing fit, man that stuff was strong and when you only take a toke about twice a year it really hits you hard.
Nevertheless, I was soon sat in comfort, sipping on my whiskey with my new South African friend beside me...and then she showed up.
The spanish chick was like a vision from heaven when she entered the small dark room, she kissed my friend on the cheek, I stood to greet her and she kissed me on the cheek and then she sat down to my left on the sofa...
So picture the scene, one dingy bar, one crap sofa, me in the middle, to my left, one hot chick, to my right another hot chick.

It was about this time little alarm bells started going off in my mind, with big flashing lights.
Was I too late, was my drink spiked already, we had chatted about roofies earlier in the evening when talking about the dangers of travelling alone, be it male or female. On top of this I was also a little stoned which added to my paranoia, the room seemed to be getting darker and closing in on me.
I tried to convince myself that these two were not scammers, I didn't know the Spanish chick but I had spent a week on Tinder chatting to Africa Girl and over the last few hours saw no signs of anything awry.
Then things got weird, the girls were chatting across me and asking about what we should do, it was hitting midnight, I was a little drunk and stoned and so was Africa.
She mentioned that she had a bottle of whiskey back in her place, maybe we could get more weed, some coke (for the whiskey, not to snort) and all 3 of us go back to hers, when she was saying this, her hand was gently rubbing my leg and giving Spanish a dirty little smile, she was making it very clear what was going to happen.
"Okay, I said...Lets go', We walked out the door soon after with coke cola and another two joints, waited for about 2 minutes and a tuk tuk came along, I let the ladies in first and I flustered around with my bag while they gave instruction to the driver to where to take us.
And with that, I took a look at the ladies and said...'Sorry ladies, I have to go' and swiftly walked up the street in the opposite direction in which the tuk tuk was pointing...I don't know where I was going and I didn't look back to witness the look of confusion on the faces of these two ladies.
And thats another one of those nights where I don't know if I was going to be raped and robbed by a pack of hungry Cambodian men or a night where I was going to heaven and back.
But, next day I was deleted from tinder, clearly a scam and fortunate enough to get away lightly....It kind of reminds me of the time I was in Bangkok about a decade ago and these two ladies approached me in a shopping Mall as I was looking at the Menu in the window of a restaurant..
"You are eating here' They asked
"I am thinking about it'
"You come to our house and we will make you lunch"
My mind was saying "its a scam don't do it' But when I opened my mouth to the decline their offer what came out was
"Sure, I would love to go to yours for lunch"
5 Minutes later we were in a Taxi heading to their house...

anewme wrote: »

This is the travel forum.Not the kind of quality you d usually get here. You d have to wonder about the standard of person who would write something like this at fifty. Its not remotely entertaining.
Im a 50 year old woman and I travel a lot. Never been scammed.but you need your full wits about you travellling.Not half wits.

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

What a waste of time it was to read this

anewme wrote: »

Imaginery ones.

gozunda wrote: »

Yeah I do get it - your not a fan of the posters comments. :pac:

Don't have to read it though, if you believe it's so bad. That's not difficult tbh.