In the bustling crowd at the Los Angeles International Airport in the Golden State's Angel City, Chen Fei finally located the person meant to pick him up after dragging his luggage around, and coincidentally encountered a con artist impersonating him.
Luckily, he arrived just in time, and after verifying his identity with a phone call and showing his passport, the smooth-talking airport vagrant who was trying to scam a meal or even more was exposed.
In the end, infuriated and cursing, the fraudster wanted to get physical, but the person who came to pick Chen Fei up pretended to call the police, which made the scammer flee in embarrassment, not forgetting to spew obscenities and racist taunts along the way.
It was not uncommon for impostors to pretend to be the guests being fetched at the airport exit, and sometimes, suspicious individuals would pose as drivers, quietly whisking people away to secluded spots before both would vanish into thin air.
