India, May 18 -- Lewis Pullman, a 23-year-old travel content creator from Australia, took to Instagram on April 16 to issue a 'warning' about his three-week journey through Northeast India. In the video, titled 'Northeast is full of scams', Lewis said that the state of Meghalaya was an 'absolute scamming state', before listing the 'three biggest scams' he encountered. Also read | Singapore woman says 'India gets so much bad publicity online', documents 'honest experience travelling in north India'

However, as viewers quickly realised, Lewis' use of the word 'scam' was a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the local people's overwhelming, 'unreal' hospitality.

Lewis, whose Instagram bio describes him as an 'Aussie hitchhiking the world', detailed...