[Resolved]  HDFC Bank — defrauding foreign tourists who use credit cards

This bank and others are systematically defrauding foreign visitors to they tune of billions of rupees every year. A scam of epic proportions.
When we get the credit card receipt from the machine, even if we have explicitly said we want the transaction currency to be rupees, it has been processed in gbp. It is printed with a statement that we have agreed to this theft and have chosen gbp. We haven't.
The net result is that it costs us about 5% more on every transaction than it would if processed by mastercard1/visa.
We have complained to the places that have defrauded us, and they all plead ignorance.
These are not small shops, but huge organisations including
Crowns plaza
Syria's
Delhi haat.

In every case we asked specifically that rupees should be the transaction currency, in every case we've been told that it is.in every case it isn't.
Your bank and others are stealing from foreigners visiting your country, and such dishonest practices by the banks does not encourage them to return.
If this isn't criminal it should be, and i will be posting details of this scam, naming your bank as a perpetrator to your government, tourism board, regulators and all over the internet.