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RE: My Ranking of China's Biggest Cities - For Dummies
Heh, he got off lucky.
I got Shanghaied out of $5000 RMB when I first arrived here 12 years ago.
It used to be soooo much worse, I remember gangs of beggars everywhere, children, burn victims etc.
Theft was a major issue, before you came to China as well, I've lost track of all the items I have had stolen, its part of why I'm still so jaded about this country.
Most people here don't give a damn about strangers, in fact they often consider them to be enemies.
I almost forgot how bad China was, and still is in some areas.
I heard about a popular scam in Shanghai where an attractive woman asks to use your phone because of some emergency and then she just runs away with it.
Do they have that teahouse scam in Shanghai? It's very common in Beijing.
Probably not anymore.
Too many cameras.
My incident was a slight variation of the teahouse scam, overpriced drinks. My bank refused to reject the charges because I couldn't prove it, and at the time it seemed like the police were in on the scam, so it ended up being a learning experience instead.