I'm gonna take you through this scam in a second with another guy who I meet.
But first, let me just explain how this scam works.
Now those guys before, they saw my camera. They were running the 'miracle cure' scam.
They'll promise you to fix your hair loss so they'll come up to you and say...
'Oh you're overweight. Maybe you should take these diet herbs.'
And they'll take you to these different kinda herbs and spices stores. They'll take you to kinda two or three actually.
They'll promise you...'we're gonna buy these spices. I'm gonna mix them up for you & they're gonna help with your weight loss or help your hair not to fall out. So, they're preying on your insecurities like that.
So the first shop charges you, just like, 30 dirhams. So you think 'Oh yeah' this is cheap...this won't cost too much. You go to the next shop...
They ramp up the price to 1500. You're like: Okay. It's getting a bit expensive but let's keep going.
You go to the next shop and they ask you for 3500 rupees, sorry dirhams. And if, at that point, you don't leave...then...
They're just gonna keep extracting money from you and what they're selling you is just rubbish. It doesn't work. It's not scientifically proven or anything.
It's just some...It's just to make money off you and sell more spices at these stores.
So...that guy that I just met...tryna sell me all that herbal stuff...to take me on his little shopping trip..
He just came back to the same place to admit to me...He's just standing there...just waiting for the next sucker to come along & he can take him through his sales pitch.
And another way it works is they'll take you around to all these different, kind of, spice stores around here. Like one over here.
And they'll get you to buy all these different spices...and the store owners are in on the scam.
You go to about 1 / 2 / 3 stores before you realize you're getting swindled.
The first store's a 100 dirham for spices. (Not too much you think). Second store goes up to 1500. Then it goes up to 3500 dirhams.
And at that point...you're just going around all these stores buying spices.
And they promise to mix them up for you and it just gets really expensive really fast.
You just pay 'em to get out of the confrontation that you're gonna have to have, you know? The fight you're gonna have to have.
A lot of foreign tourists will just pay and just get out of there.
So that's what happens when they take you to this store. Charge some crazy amount and hope that you won't fight them but...
You have to fight them. And, you have to not trust people on the street.