Shifty vendor shamed online for cheating customer

A street vendor in China has been shamed online after being filmed tricking a customer by swapping his goods for a bag of suspected rotten fruit.

The customer had carefully picked out a selection of fruits from the street stall when he handed the bag to the female vendor for weighing.

She reaches down, seemingly only to pick up a scale, and in a flash swaps the customer's bag for a pre-prepared one, believed to be full of spoiled fruit.

The customer is none the wiser, checking the weight and then happily handing over his cash.

The short clip has gone viral, racking up more than 2.3 million views since being uploaded by to the Shanghaiist Facebook page.