After trust was established between Munrad and Sally, Munrad mentioned a business arrangement he often made with his travelling friends.  His friends would purchase jewels on visa card and then send them onto a GPO of another country for collection later on in their journey.  There the travellers would be refunded the money from Munrad’s contacts, plus a little extra for their trouble. 

Sally was informed that exports in India generated high taxes so she would be helping to avoid this.  After some hesitation and after doing much research and getting written guarantees, she agreed to do this.  Sally was heading to Tokyo, Japan.

Sally left Agra and started travelling around India.  Soon after this she met some other travellers and she happened to borrow their Indian travel book.  As she was looking through the book, it suddenly opened to a specific page, like an Act of God.  Glancing down the page she read the paragraph: “Beware of scams in Agra and Jaspur.”   Amazed Sally continued to read:  “Jewellers will try to con you into buying their jewellery by saying they have contacts in other countries where you can sell their jewels and so make a profit for yourself.”   

Sally arrived in Madras, went to the Embassy and there she found out that the contact addresses were all false.   Immediately a flush of panic swept through her body.  But luckily for Sally she met Geoff soon after this shocking discovery.  Geoff was an Australian tour guide who told her he would be in Agra at the same time she planned to return. He offered his assistance with getting her money back.  

A couple of weeks later Sally returned to Agra and went to the jewellery shop.  To her surprise the jewellers there admitted to everything except it being a scam.  Munrad said he’d gladly refund Sally the money if she returned the jewels.  These goods had already been sent to the GPO in Tokyo.

Geoff arrived that night and informed Sally he had a dictaphone so they could tape the jewellers' conversation.  The next day they both went to jewellery shop.  Again, the jewellers admitted to everything including giving Sally the addresses in Tokyo, having contacts in Tokyo that would pay for the jewels, and so on.   Sally secretly managed to record them stating this. 

Sally took her evidence to the police station and requested to see the head of the police, the Superintendent.  She was told that he was at an important meeting.  Sally demanded that he be interrupted as she had important business to attend to.  Reluctantly the officers did interrupt the meeting and Sally walked in.  To her surprise there were ten uniformed police who were all decorated like generals.  It was quite obvious to Sally that this actually was a very important meeting! 

After composing herself Sally spoke to the Superintendent explaining her situation.  He delegated this matter to the Assistant Superintendent Mr Raja, who indicated that there was probably nothing he could do.  Sally then told him she had the jewellers recorded.  Mr Raja indicated that this would be a good start.  

A meeting was set up with the jewellers, Mr Raja and Sally.  The recording was played and Mr Raja disciplined the jewellers.  Mr Raja was not impressed especially when the recording displayed the jewellers stating they were ‘untouchable’ and ‘owned the Agra police’.  Later Mr Raja told Sally the jewellers couldn’t be charged but if anything it might scare them enough to refund her money.

Mr Raja was correct and Sally’s complaint against the jewellers ended up being reported in the local newspaper.  The jewellers eventually agreed to reverse the visa transaction to credit Sally the money.    Did the reverse transaction get Sally’s money refunded and did Sally end up collecting the jewels in Tokyo?  Well, that is another story!