You know about getting tea-housed, you've heard about the 'art student' exhibitions, and now it's time to talk about fake red cabs. Sometime a while back, when this Shanghaiist had just moved here, we asked a local what the difference was between all of the cabs. The response was cryptic: 'They're all the same, but watch out for the red ones.' This seemed like a weird piece of advice, perhaps in the same vein......

... and going with strange girls who want to practise their English to coffee shops is STILL a bad idea, folks. Yet another chump — this time a Swedish guy on a business trip — has fallen for the time-honoured scam by following a pair of temptresses who were "dressed like university students" (so wearing mortar boards, presumably) to the Manabe coffee shop on the 3rd floor of the Brilliance Shimao Plaza, Shanghai Daily reported......