India, March 10 -- An American writer and lawyer has recalled an unpleasant experience during his trip to India, wherein the manager of his hotel teamed up with a cab driver in an attempt to fleece him. Andrew Hammel spoke about the time he was nearly scammed out of Rs.3,000 in response to a viral X thread on India's lack of social trust.

The writer, who is based in Germany, said he was visiting Jaipur, Rajasthan when he took a cab back to his hotel. Soon thereafter, he heard a loud pounding at his hotel room door and realised that the cab driver was demanding cash from him under the pretext of being shortchanged. More shocking, however, was the fact that the cab driver was accompanied by the hotel manager.

HT.com has reached out to Ham...