India, May 29 -- A US tourist's unsettling experience in Kolkata has sparked concern online after a man accompanying a local taxi driver not only took him to the wrong hotel but also threatened him with "mafia connections". The man filmed the encounter and shared a video on YouTube, which has since gone viral.

"From this point forward I will never use random taxi drivers from the airport, always Uber. I didn't plan to make any videos from the airport as I was already tired from traveling. However, when the taxi driver brought me to the wrong hotel after I showed him the correct address and location on the map I started filming," wrote Dustin.

"At the time, I didn't understand what he was saying and had my friend translate, he said it wa...