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Originally Posted by Rock Hardbuns
Hey, decola, can I ask you something? I was in KL for a couple of weeks, years ago. Loved it by the way, I was supposed to go back up to thailand to meet up with a buddy, but decided to hang out in KL alone for three weeks instead.
Anyway, people would come up to me every few days or so and start a conversation. Then when I told them I'm from Sweden they would proclaim that they have an uncle/sister/friend who were going to Sweden to work in the near future. Then they would invite me to their home for dinner so that this person could ask me about Sweden.
I declined, and offered them my email adress if they wanted to get in touch, but they were not interested in my email. Just to have me over for dinner.
So, I've been wondering ever since whether this was some kind of scam, or if they was going to rob me or if they were serious.
The same thing happened about ten times. Do you know what this is?
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Well, it sounds like a scam to me, but it's not one I've heard of before. KL isn't really the sort of place where people try to scam you often, and to be honest I haven't ever been approached or heard of someone being approached for random conversation like that, but I don't really look like a tourist myself. The closest thing to a scam was a guy in Chinatown who tried to sell my dad a fake watch, and repeatedly called him John (I guess all white people are called John).