Foreign tourists in Ho Chi Minh City are now advised to watch out for the vendors who could force them to pay up to US$5 for a coconut, five to six times what locals pay, but there are many other scams foreigners may fall prey to.
Tran Xuan Hung, director of Viking Travel & Media Corp, sounded an alarm about these dangers in an op-ed sent to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Tuesday, shortly after reading the coconut rip-offs in Saigon article the same day.
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