Belmont Lay

If you hear your door bell ring and some random people are standing outside offering to sell you premium durians, just close the door and threaten to call the police. Because this is what might happen next, according to the following Facebook post detailing the encounter with door-to-door durian sellers wandering around Singapore touting thorny fruits out of the blue:

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According to the post, the random durian sellers that showed up were armed with at least one knife.

They showed up outside the door of at least this one Singaporean household, claiming to be selling premium Mao Shan Wang durians.

Any offer to check out the durians first will see them opening up the fruit, suddenly increasing the price and then it is S$385 for 23kg of durians.

As seen in the photo above, that doesn't look like 23kg of durians at all.

However, this isn't the first time such a scam has been carried out in Singapore. It seems to be a thing that happens every durian season.

Previously in December 2015, an earlier incident was reported and relied on a similar modus operandi carried out at the Choa Chu Kang HDB estate.

So, if you see anyone touting durians outside your door unannounced, just don't bother.

This is the full post in case you cannot see it:

Some bastards came to our place today and tried to sell some durians to my wife for $15 per durian, claiming that it was MSW quality. My wife agreed to buy some from them and they started opening up the durians but before she knew it they told her that they had opened up 6 durians (surely these durians in the tupperware look like they came from 6 bloody durians) and wanted to charge her $15 per KG instead of per durian and insisted that she had misheard them. Next, they took out a weighing scale and wanted my wife to pay $385 bloody dollars - that's 23kg worth of durians! Where is the rest of my durians?! Obviously my wife refused to pay and called me immediately and I followed up by calling the police. The durian bastards must have sensed that something was wrong and told my wife that they will come back for payment later when the husband is back. Mind you, all this while they were standing outside my door refusing to leave as they had already opened up the durians, with a knife in their hand. I was already in rage mode and was picturing myself smashing the durian shells into their face, but too bad those bastards never came back for their money or durians. It was then that the police informed me that even his own mother got scammed by these assholes. Kudos to these fellas for making the effort to rig their weighing scale and coming up with such a creative scam. Dear family and friends, please take note of this and warn your close ones to stay vigilant and not fall prey to these durian scammers.

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