Originally Posted by RichardInSF

I'd be interested to see substantiation of that, particularly comparing it with the frequency that both the tea house and artist scams come up on the internet.

The only thing I've heard at all regularly reported in the past was the bit about the ridiculously overpriced taxi route in from JFK, but that has been largely eliminated due to the fixed price fare and the handout in many languages given out by taxi dispatchers.