Beware of customers scamming hair salons!
(Baonghean.vn) - At the end of the year, services increase, and this is also an opportunity for scams to flourish. Besides selling counterfeit, fake, and low-quality goods, even hairdressing services are being scammed.
The university market in Vinh City, Nghe An province, has about a dozen hair salons. During rush hour and on weekends, not only female students but also mothers and sisters living nearby flock to these salons to get their hair done. Especially towards the end of the year, besides shopping, refreshing one's appearance to welcome the new year is understandable.
Ms. Huong, the owner of a hair salon in the university market, recounted sadly, "That girl looked so innocent; who would have thought she'd tricked me? She came to my salon to get her hair dyed, carrying a bag of clothes. I applied the dye, covered her head, and while waiting for the color to develop, she asked to go grab a bite to eat. I waited and waited, but she didn't come back. Realizing I'd been tricked, I opened the bag of clothes she'd left behind. It turned out to be just rags."
Ms. Ly and her story.
Hearing Ms. Huong's story to a customer, Ms. Ly from the shop next door couldn't hide her frustration and asked what had happened. It turned out Ms. Ly had just been scammed that day. The story was that since morning, she had had two customers come in for hair straightening. The second customer brought a sealed box of Hao Hao instant noodles, brand new. After spending the whole morning working on both ends of their hair, they asked to go eat and then come back for the dyeing. Thinking they were hungry after sitting at the hair salon all morning, Ms. Ly agreed. As they left, the customer repeatedly warned: "Be careful not to step on my box of instant noodles." Then, 30 minutes, an hour, two hours passed, and they didn't return. People around started mentioning being scammed, and Ms. Ly tried to console herself, thinking, "At least I still have the noodles, I can eat them." But when she opened the box, there were no Hao Hao noodles, only slag (used honeycomb charcoal). All she could do was sigh in exasperation at another day of unpaid work.
"I've only heard about scams to sell people across the border, fraud to steal money, and property theft, but I've never seen anyone scam someone while working as a hairdresser. All my effort from this morning has been wasted," Ms. Ly said.
The hair salon owners in the market all confirmed that their customers were mostly students, all with innocent, youthful faces, which is why they trusted them, but they were wrong. This isn't a very serious incident, but it reflects the moral decline of a segment of today's youth.
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