Now it's up to you if you want to hit me or not.

It's fine, it's fine.

You and your country.

You and my country?

Yep, that's me.

You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.

So on the previous video we showed you how these scammers operate in Paris and what's the trick behind the cups and ball game.

One, two hundred dollars.

Most of the time we were just having fun.

Batting some worthless money.

Okay, I give you five hundred.

What money is that?

And making fun of the scammers' horrible acting.

Oh, no, no, no.

Oh, I'm playing with you guys.

Come on.

Stay in character, man.

Stay in character, okay?

And here.

Yeah, there you go, there you go.

Stay in character.

And it's fair to say that the scammers were pretty chilled about it.

And in worst cases, they just walked away.

Up to this point it was more of a fun for us and I guess for them as well.

But once we went around the tower and met with a different group, it wasn't fun at all.

That's where the fun ended.

I'm filming from the distance and my buddy is among the group with his hidden camera in his glasses, trying to get some nice video of the game.

But the scammer in the boss shirt notices me and sends this lovely lady to tell me that I cannot film.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Oh, okay, I'm sorry.

This was actually happening quite often, that the scammers would tell us not to film the game.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Okay, why should I delete?

Because it's a fun game?

I'm sorry.

No, no, no.

Okay, okay.

Okay, I will delete.

Okay.

Okay, I'm sorry.

I delete.

Okay.

Sorry.

Thank you very much.

Have a nice day.

Okay, sorry.

Sorry.

Watch this video.

You think if I delete a video on iPhone, it gets deleted?

Also, there's another camera pointed in my direction.

You little scumbag.

But this time, I didn't obey their request and I decided to keep on filming.

Well, the boss noticed me again.

And this time, he wasn't happy, so he didn't send a nice lady, but these two thugs.

Oh, okay, so you're with them?

Yes.

Oh, okay.

You're with them too?

Yes.

Oh, there's too many of you, okay.

Thank you so much.

Okay, I don't want to scream.

Now, at the same time, the boss notices my buddy's camera is recording and starts to push him around, so I immediately run for help.

Hey!

Hey, hey, hey!

Don't touch him, okay?

You can scam tourists, but don't touch me.

You're all just trying to scam tourists.

It's okay, do your job.

Don't touch us.

We're under Eiffel Tower.

We can take pictures of whatever we want.

Go back to your game.

Also, it was just now that I found out that Mickey here was also part of this gang, something you guys pointed out in the comments under the previous video.

Well, you were right.

After the situation calmed down, I tried to explain to the camera what happened when a lovely Czech tourist approached me with something I just did not expect at that moment.

But some other tourists were actually giving us a thumbs up.

Well done!

Thank you!

I became a Paris hero for two seconds.

That's nice.

We moved to the side of the park to explain to the camera what has happened, still being closely watched by all the scammers.

They're pissed, right?

Can you see it?

I can see it.

It's a princess on the Eiffel Tower, right?

Of course it is.

There's a friend of theirs here.

I wouldn't want to be with you.

Now they're deciding whether to hit me or not.

It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.

Are we going to be okay?

Good, good, good.

Let it be, let it be.

Let it be.

Let it be.

No, no, no.

Anton, are you okay?

Are you okay?

Good, good, good.

No, it's not because of you.

I don't know, maybe it's because of the sun or something.

I don't know what to say to the camera.

Yeah, yeah.

And are they here every day?

Every day.

Every day?

Yeah.

Thanks, guys.

Does the police do something about it?

No, no, no.

There are no police, nothing.

Nothing.

Thanks, guys.

We're in a park across from the tower where we eventually spotted some cops, or we spotted guys selling the little Eiffel Towers running away from someone, and then we spotted the cops.

So we asked them about the cups and balls.

They said it is illegal, they shouldn't play it here on the streets.

They obviously do, and they became very, very interested when we told them how aggressive they were towards us.

They even asked for a picture of the scammer, so we gave it to them.

Yeah, of course.

We take the pictures.

This whole group, you know.

And this guy was very aggressive.

The police officer was right.

Yep, they went after us because we were filming them, but we can film whatever we want, especially those who scam other people.

It's near the Eiffel Tower?

Yeah, it's where the entrance is, through the security line.

Very aggressive.

They didn't like it.

Just in front of the entrance?

Yes.

By the way, this entire incident in the park happened right next to the security checkpoint that's supposed to keep you safe.

I guess we were on the wrong end of it.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that we've been literally attacked by a group of these guys.

Man, we walk around the corner and here they are again.

Like, what the hell?

And it's hard to even walk past them.

Well, I guess we learned our lesson.

You don't confront scammers when you're in a country that is not your home country.

We're not on the home field.

Dude, if I was in Prague, the guy was going to jail.

Yes, we do.

I will sign anything for you.

Of course.

But this is a different episode.

So subscribe to this channel and you can watch how this works.

I'll say you good?

So we're actually being followed by one of the guys in the black there behind me.

I'm not sure if you can see him, but we were not paranoid.

We are being followed.

So let's get lost.

So we did get lost.

We went to our apartment in Saint-Denis to discuss what we filmed.

Only to find this article regarding a group of scammers that was arrested two years ago by the French police.

The police arrested them and seized more than €16,000 in cash and three luxury cars.

Also estimating they were able to earn about €1,000 in an hour.

Not bad.

Thank you for watching.

This was episode two of our three-part series from Paris about scammers.

It's already now streaming on our Patreon.

Patreon.com slash HonestGuide.

You can go watch it.

Now you'll also get some other perks that we offer for our lovely city of Prague.

If you don't know how the cups and ball trick works, go watch the previous episode, which is part one.

Thank you for watching and I'll see you next week.

Bye-bye.