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If you want to buy gemstones in Asia, read this traveller buyers guide first to help you spot fakes: edition.cnn.com/travel/article/buying-gems-asia/in….
The temple we went to with Lord Buddha's hair was Gangaramaya Temple goo.gl/maps/Q9N3puJiY5WXNn7Y6?entry=yt.
00:00 These guys scam foreign tourists
00:12 Let's catfish a scammer
00:58 Meeting a subscriber while undercover
01:38 Found a scammer
03:10 Stop 1: Buddhist temple with Buddha's hair
03:21 How this 'friendly local' scam works
04:37 Stop 2: Expensive gem store
07:45 How to avoid buying fake gems
08:30 How much $$$ did they ask for?!?
09:42 How to avoid this scam
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Even as Sri Lankans we also get scammed like this. Thanks for bringing these into lights, and letting people know that they can always use UBER and prevent these situations.
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Whenever someone says "I give you special price", know that it's a scam.
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Hey Carl , your story here was on main media News in Sri Lanka. These scammers are absolutely demolishing our image as a nation bro. We are truly sorry for what you had gone through.
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I really love when you do this content, it’s very eye opening for travelers, you’re really helping thousands and thousands of people, thanks Karl!
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1:08 That subscriber spotting you in the beginning was so chill. One of these days, Karl will become so famous that he just won't be able to make scam videos for us, cause everywhere he goes somebody's gonna know him.
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As a Sri Lankan I can tell you that no local in Sri Lanka would actually bother to show a foreigner around the city in a guy's rickshaw during his lunch break like that guy did. Most people wouldn't even bother to come up to a foreigner and say Hi.
if you encounter someone who comes up to you telling about the places you can visit in the city without you even asking is absolutely a guy who wants to milk you out of your money.
On the other hand if you ask someone who's walking down the street for directions or advice most people would happily help.
Stay safe.
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I myself is a Srilankan and am grateful that you made this. People like this destroy my countries reputation and there’s nothing for us to do. Thanks to people like this, foreigners look even at good locals suspiciously! Once again thanks for this video mate!
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අපේ හරකෙක් ගම කාලා නේද සගෝ 🤣🤣🤣
හොඳ වැඩේ මූනත් එක්කම පේන්න දාලා ගොටුකොල හරක් දෙන්නගෙ 🤣🤣
Most of the tourists doesn’t reveal these kind of scams that they have to faced in a different country.
You’re very brave man 👍
As a sri lankan, I never knew such things happen in colombo 🙆🏻♂️
Normally tuk tuk drivers charge foreigners double sometimes more than that.
always ask them to turn on the meter or use Uber or Pick Me ( Pick Me is Sri Lankan version of Uber )
Reveal more scammers in Sri Lanka. Always show their faces as well.
I’m happy to see someone like you stand against Scams around the world
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Don't pay for the tuk tuk unless they have a meter. It is mandatory by law in Colombo. For one killo meter it is around 50 rupees ( edited : actually its 60-70 after petrol price hike) . Great job by educating others and waking up the sleeping officials.
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Bro the fact that you endanger your life in a sense for sharing info and helping others to know what you were exposing is very very brave and good job. stay safe always !!👌
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This is the absolute truth in recent times , i have personally been victim of these many scams
Thank you Karl for making this video and spreading the awareness for the people visiting to these places .
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Wow that guy even went out of the way to share half the rickshaw fair only to sit back in it and take back the money..i can only imagine how many innocent tourist get ripped off.Karl great awareness video mate 👍..
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Very well done. Hats off. Eye opener for all the tourists visiting sri lanka.
Say No for Scammers.
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Hi Karl, I'm a big fan of yours, and I watch your videos. This one just blew my head off. I'm a Sri Lankan living in Canada for about 39 years. I haven't been back home since. But seeing this scam, it's mind boggling. We are planning on going to Sri Lanka next year, (God willing), and thank you for exposing this.
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I just subscribed crazy how you put yourself in danger to expose this scumbags
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Thank you so much for exposing these scammers Karl. We, locals are also tired of them. Be careful from scammers trying to get sympathy by telling sob stories. Requesting money is always coming after a sob story.
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I love how he's like I'll show you around and then takes you to a shop where they sell gems 😂 and then spends time showing you around and gets nothing 😂
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You played along just to show us the game, really appreciate your patience.
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Hi Karl, I have been with your channel from a very long time and if I ever knew you are in Sri Lanka, I my self personally would have visited you. I am a big fan of yours from a very long time. I accidentally came across this video yesterday on facebook, and most of the people never have heard about you there, I told to everyone there how much brave you are and how much of work you do in order to put the scammers behind bars and single handedly you could have taken this man's teeth out because you are a guy with that much of guts to do one man show to expose big time crooks. Nice to see you once again and hope you have enjoyed the stay and as a sri lankan and globe trotter my self, I am really sad to see this happened to you!!! Have a great time!!!
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@randaranatunga7259
2 years ago
With Rs. 4,800 you can almost go halfway across the country from the West to East, it’s really quite disappointing to see that these “Friendly strangers” take advantage of tourists so easily.
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