What are the usual scams?
There are several major catgeories of scam, although inventive hustlers are always dreaming up new variations: Getting the tourist into a shop to buy The guide (even the official ones) who shows one around town will very likely have a number of agreements with certain merchants – he’ll divert his charges into these shops, and the guide can get very persuasive if his cut and his reputation (perhaps even his testicles) are at stake, if some salesman has wasted five mint teas and twenty minutes on a hopeless case. Moroccans have three words for rugs (zerbiya for small, guetifa for large and hanbel for short-pile) – there are many more words for selling them. “Please help me translate this letter to my friend in Canada” This is a real oldie, watch the letter vanish once amongst those rugs. “Come friend, let us talk about our countries” Some do, most want to sell. “We can swap your goods for souvenirs” Yes, they will, but it will usually be for a fraction of the cost. They’re not two-bit pe
