In Reply to: and why do it at a t-shirt shop..? posted by keren on Monday, 28. October 2013 at 20:06 Bali Time:
some items from them, they seemed like nice guys. They had a money changing desk at the front. As I was leaving an Australian man and his son came in who had obviously cashed money with these guys before and were doing so again. So stupidly I thought they were trustworthy. I was also in a rush and didn't have the time to go to Permata Bank where I would usually go.
This is how they did it. He counted out bundles of 50,000 notes but instead of counting 50,000, 100,000 he counted 1,2,3,4 etc got to 10 and said one million. He did this four times. I wasn't thinking and counted 1,2,3 etc with him. Got back to my room and immediately realised. Like I said I did something I warn others about. My husband had the sh**s badly about it and said I should forget it as I won't get it back. Fortunately I did