A tourist was left steaming after merciless street hustlers sold him a tile dressed up as a new phone.
The man was at the Adam PZ market in Kumasi, Ghana, when he became a target for the market’s wily merchants who flog a selection of tat and fake goods.
The incident was captured on video, which showed the tourist, who wears a face mask, surrounded by street sellers aggressively trying to sell him stuff.
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One street seller hands him what appears to be a new, black iPhone to inspect.
Hawkers continue to shove objects in the tourist’s view as the man continues to look over the phone.
The tourist runs his hand along the phone, and just as he finds he can lift a corner of the phone up, the seller attempts to snatch it back.
As both men hold onto the phone, the black casing splits open like a book, revealing something grey inside.
As the men tug at the phone, they reveal the phone is in fact a piece of tile made out to look like a new phone.
The street seller eventually grabs it back off the tourist has he continues to be hustled by other hawkers.
The man eventually walks away, waving off the gaggle of hawkers who continue to hassle him.
The video was shared on X, with the caption “Adum PZ boys left a Chinese man sweating and fuming on the streets if Kumasi after selling him a well-crafted tile as a brand-new phone.”
While many people found the footage hilarious, some expressed sympathy for the tourist in the comment section.
One person described Adam PZ market as the “most dangerous corner in Ghana”, while another wrote: “Oh my God. Can’t lie y’all should be extra careful.”
It appears the fake phone is a common scam among the market’s phone hawkers.
In April, Adum PZ phone sellers left a young naive man in tears after he tried to upgrade his old phone.
Footage also shared on social media showed how street hawkers took the man’s old phone and money, and handed back a junk phone, refusing to return the man’s old phone or money.
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