An Austrian tourist on vacation in Mumbai was recently cheated by a stranger he met in Colaba while he was out buying Indian spices to take back home. 

The conman, identified as Rakesh Jha alias Jems, 28, struck up a conversation with the Austrian national, Gabriel Toso, 22, a student at Vienna University after asking him for a cigarette. After speaking to him for a while, Jha asked him if he was interested in doing drugs and thrust a small plastic wrapped packet into his hands. According to Toso's statement to the police, the man then asked for R300 for the drugs.