It’s useless trying to con a jeweller at his own trade, as two capital women learned when they were arrested on Monday.

Strolling up to a gold seller at a Por Sen Chey market, one woman asked to try on a ring, then handed back a phoney.

The trick stood out like a sore thumb to the trader, who called in the cops to come arrest the trinket-taking tricksters and see them off to the station for charges.

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