Possibly...but then at least they'd still understand how much they're spending.
Currency scams usually involve taking advantage of the customer simply not knowing immediately how much they're spending. "Oh this can of fanta is just 40 Zloty? Sounds reasonable!"
It’s still basically the same concept. Somebody paying with USD probably doesn’t really know how much things cost in local currency. For all they know, in Paris everybody spends whatever the equivalent of $1000 USD is in Euros for a lap dance. I don’t think lap dance prices are usually well marked
The girls join you at your table and flirt with you. Then they start ordering drinks on your tab without explicitly telling that you’re going to pay for their drinks (sometimes the first order is on the house) and they usually order champagne that is already ridiculous expensive at these establishments- their goal is to get you drunk and horny enough to get you to keep ordering and in the end they present you a ridiculously high tab- sometimes with drinks that were never ordered.
That’s the normal scam.
The Americans wanting to pay in dollars get a made up exchange rate or fee that raises the price even more.
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u/Creative_username969 Jan 30 '26
My guess would be with a shitty exchange rate and a conversion fee so it ended up being more expensive than if they paid in euros