No I don't want it. What is this?
Hanuman temple.. Karl: Ok, I don't want it.
Very good, very happy!
Hello Friends, I am here at Har ki pauri today. This is a very sacred place for Hindus,
But I've also heard that there are a lot of scammers here. There's basically a gang of scammers
taking fake donations here and apparently they beeline for foreign tourists. So let's go find them.
Let's see what the game is but first let me just tell you why this place is so sacred. Now this place
It is a beautiful ghat
area. These kind of steps come down and meet us here at
the Ganges or the Ganga in Hindi and the spot is really important for Hindus because this is where
the Ganga comes out of the mountains and meets the plains here in Haridwar, and it's also a place
where Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva was said to spend a lot of time in and come here.
So every morning they do a
prayer here and at night they basically just
all these areas
the priests come out and
they start doing a prayer ceremony and then everybody floats these little lanterns, these little lanterns down the river. Incredibly beautiful,
But you know, who knows how good it is for the river, right?
Scammer: Good name Sir?
Karl: My name, my name. What's this thing?
Karl: Oh I see. Are you guys official government people or what? Scammer: Yes, yes, government people.
Registration number five five four this side 21 18 16. Good name?
Karl: No, no name. I don't have a name. So this do I have to give this money?
Scammer: Anything you like 50, 100, 200, 500.
Karl: No, so many people are coming up to me asking for money man, no, no no no no, no. Not now.
I can see, I can see.
Food is being served.
Karl: Food? Oh this is, your stall is here. I see. What do we got?
Eggplant
and these are berries, right?
So these guys are selling snack and those guys who came up to me before us they will hassle you to no ends here in Haridwar.
Yeah, Scammer: Do you like donation? Karl: Oh, okay. No. Thank you.
Scammer: Where'd you like? Karl: Oh, thank you. Thank you.
It's better you find an official ticket office in and give it and give the donation there. I think.
You can never trust these guys. You never know if they're
real or if these little pads they're holding. They just printed them at the printer
right, and I've made a video where I showed that a lot of these donation guys aren't giving the money back to
where they say they are. That video was these ladies at India Gate.
They said they were giving the money to a charity for orphans, but they weren't I called the charity.
They do not have donation people there at India Gate. So stealing from orphans.
So yeah, just be careful these guys here.
Look here down at the river, this river is freezing.
How are they dunking themselves then? This is a very important ritual,
a lot of people come here to dunk themselves in the Ganga
because of such a sacred sacred river.
I don't want it, thank you.
No, no. no, thank you.
Now this lady is trying to get me to put this on. Let's see what happens. There's gonna be a donation involved I guarantee you.
Thank you, thank you.
Karl: So, yeah be careful. People are going to you know use religion to take money from you, okay?
Religion is a big big business here in India.
I'm not gonna give her any money though. I knew that was what's gonna happen. I want to show you guys. Oh
You were money, too. Everybody's asking for money now.
Let's go.
No man, you gotta you gotta tell people before you want money.
Super annoying people, I just said what are you gonna do?
You already done it.
So we got more people coming out for that.
No man, this is a different one. This is a completely different paper.
Scammer: Bharat scouts and guide. Karl: Bharat scout and guide. Scammer: That organisation you see. It is my duty, ganga cleaning, ganga maintenance.
Karl: But there's so many people with these pads coming around and asking me to donate, so many people.
Scammer: Give something you like.
Karl: No but who is legitimate? Is this fake?
So that guy cities some over here the Indian scouts and guide of Uttrakhand.
So there's different people taking donations here. That is so confusing.
So you don't actually know if your money's going to this welfare of
the Ganga in this area or not.
And judging by the,
the cleanliness and judging by the facilities here that money is not going anywhere.
That's the thing you don't know who to trust here. Trust is a really big issue.
You want to donate but who do you donate to. So sometimes these guys will come up to you and they'll just ask you, what's
your name and they'll start writing it down on a bit of paper
and then then they're gonna be like how much you're going to give?
They're not exactly telling you it's a donation straightaway, right?
They're just trying to collect as much as they can because these guys will make commission on
the donations they take. So they just want to get as much as possible.
If the donations are even going to the right place, right, maybe they're keeping a hundred percent of it. Who knows?
So this is the main Man: Where did you come from? Karl: I came from New Zealand bro.
New Zealand
So this is the main area where you can donate money okay? Right
Man: No other, this is the main.
Karl: Okay, yes, I can see. These guys set the table here. Man: How much? 200, 500?
Karl: Zero
Karl: I won't go inside. So this is the main area where you can donate money. Ah,
Man: You can shoot your video inside, it's not allowed here. Karl: Ok
Alright, so that was good.
We found the main place to give the donation there at the main ghat.
And I don't trust any of these other guys around here who are taking donations. All right?
Go to the main table and give your donation there people and you can't film there. I couldn't film there much because
there's a lot of topless woman there getting into the Ganga to wash themselves, so yeah, no filming and no drones
they say there as well.
So let's go.
This will cost me money.
No, no, no blessings. I don't need any Thank You.
Yeah, never ends honestly.
Really
Money?
It just never ends here. That guy was a friendly priest. He walked me about a kilometer,
just followed me basically. Just like lashed onto me and
pretended he was kind of this this old man who wanted to chat and then at the end he's like he asked me in Hindi,
Can you give something?
Money
I'm like, I'm like now we're friends, right and he's like just one just one. Just one what come on man
Friends don't ask for money. It's just a money-making playing, you know befriend you then I ask you for money.
Namaste Kid: Hello Karl: Speak in hindi.