What started as a blue moonstone mine tour in the South of Sri Lanka soon turned in to a major tourist scam.

When a subscriber contacted me and proposed me to tour around Hikkaduwa with his uncle I thoughtm why not and agreed to it.

We went to moonstone and gem palace in Meetiyagoda to do what afterwards felt like a fake mine tour. The mines didn't really look like they were used. Also the whole operation seemed a bit too perfect to be real. Nonetheless I enjoyed a tour, bought some cinnamon leaf oil and then went into their jewelery shop. There I was shown products of in the thousands of dollars, including one necklace of 45,000 USD.

When I finally agreed to buy something I got seriously overcharged, I found this out only later and because of that I decided to investigate a bit more and confront the Scam Palace.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:18 'Mine' tour
15:02 Jewelery shop where SCAM happened
20:12 Picking up the Mayor's mom
22:01 Analyzing the SCAM with help of Jewelery shops
27:45 Going back to the SCAM Palace to confront them
34:37 Honest business
37:03 Outro

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