"How many are you?" the guy will ask with peso bills woven around his fingers. He will look like a typical Filipino bus conductor checking bus tickets or collecting fares, but this will not be true.

The unsuspecting victim will tell the truth. One or two or three passengers, he will say, while handing over the respective bus fare to the collector. At which point the guy will disappear outside the temporarily stopped vehicle (usually because of traffic). But he won't be stealing the cash unlike actual thieves.

He'll come back up with one, two or three tetra-packs of Zesto(TM) juice, depending on how much the victim paid for. And he will insert the straw into the juice packs while handing them to you.

Most victimized Filipinos will give some mild form of refusal to be part of this. They will say, "I thought you were the bus conductor!" Or "I didn't pay for that!!?" And the Scammer will say "But, I already put the straw into it, you can't un-puncture this pack of juice!" At this, the victims will probably give up.

Others will try to demand for their money. But not many will face the public humiliation of letting fellow passengers further realize they've been scammed.