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Anecdotally in the Bay Area have been approached by strangers for both the three card Monte and the shell game. I think that if I did not have prior knowledge o
by stevenwoo 9y ago
Anecdotally in the Bay Area have been approached by strangers for both the three card Monte and the shell game. I think that if I did not have prior knowledge of these I would have been vulnerable to them as well.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoI don't know. Gambling on the street doesn't seem like a very American thing. Are you sure you weren't targeted because you looked Chinese? (for the same reason white people get targeted for specific scams in China...)
- stevenwoo 9y agoI don't know, either, not enough data/investigation to judge. Off the top of my head I was in San Francisco and a homeless person approached me and several Asian friends for a game in the street and once in a BART station and another time I was with some caucasian co workers in Redwood City at a fast food place.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoStrange. I've been to the Bay Area many times, lived there for a couple of years even, and I never saw anything like that, especially in Redwood City. I'm pretty versed in the foreigner scams in China, but, they aren't applied to Chinese people. The main ones that apply to Chinese are fake goods at the small stores (very common, almost universal), a farmer in the middle of the street at night pretending to get hit or waiting to pretend to get hit, and the money on the ground scam.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Gambling on the street doesn't seem like a very American thing. I've seen it occur a few times personally, usually with no Asian participants, and its been regularly depicted as a thing in US entertainment media with non-Asian participants in a manner which suggests that the audience was not expected to see it as unusual as a practice.