MEL taxi scam

[cove]

No I hailed it coming up the street towards a taxi rank so about 300 metres from the Langham in Southbank Melbourne.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

We will never pay a Melbourne taxi with a credit card after getting scammed and had to replace that card.

The grownups solved that dilemma years sgo:

 

[cove]

Thanks @Cruiser Elite. We don’t get to Melbourne very often. Our footy team is unlikely to play in the grand final this year so we booked a trip to the US when that is on.]

 

[SeaWolf]

What has always puzzled me is why it's such a big problem in Melbourne but not other Australian cities. I remember this happening right the way back when I first started visiting Melbourne back in the early 2000s. While I have occasionally seen touts at Sydney, Brisbane or Perth, I've never seen them on the scale that they are at Melbourne.