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OPS3C
In Rome (and I guess anywhere with gyspies) there's little girls used to pickpocket you on the trains.
BleachItsWhatsForDinner
Note to self: try not to accept the drug deal from the tuc-tuc driver in Koh Phagnan. Bring your own next time.
InnerUniverse
The first section doesn't work on me because I ignore strangers when I'm wandering in public. The others are clever though.
BasicWhiteGirl360
Good thing I'm paranoid of people stealing my shit, I travelled to different countries and I never had a problem with scams and stuff
MARAMACKTHEUNHOLY
Go ahead, throw your baby at me. My hand eye coordination is terrible.
Bubblefarmer
I was 14, on a trip to NYC and got scammed by "a music artist" that $10 still haunts me to this day.
Bambi577
Carry a decoy wallet with just a note that says "fuck you" and put the regular one up your butt.
eggstacy
TIL don't trust nice people
ImNotAnOrange
Tuktuks in Thailand will try and convince you to go places you don't want to go to buy things you don't need because the shops pay them
ImNotAnOrange
Half the time they don't ask you just stop somewhere and they say they need gas or something
TroelsyTwo
With taxi drives.. always agree on the cost of the journey before you start. Look up what it should cost, stick to it.
Isuckatbeingagirl
Or use Uber. You can follow the route
theofficialseraphim
The "Music Artist" one is extremely true. They will scream at you, calling you a "racist" and "white supremacist". I know from experience...
mowerguy
I hate these things, they're so inaccurate
k3llybo1
SEPARATE THE GODDAMN PICTURES
YoSoFunny
"usually a doll" ???
RossDunbar
TL:DR if you're on holiday and someone talks to you, it's probably a scam.
wBRITTm
Doggo
basicwhitelich
Additional ones: taxis that straight up kidnap women, two women asking for help (will lead you somewhere and rob you),
basicwhitelich
And literally anyone who stops to ask you a question. Only people who want something stop tourists to ask them things.
romicra88
Stayed at a hotel in Florida where the cunt of an owner went straight to a chair I "broke" yet didn't even touch during my stay. 1/2
romicra88
2/2 she didn't even hesitate and it never even looked broken. She just went straight to it and accused me. She didn't get away with it
romicra88
So if you stay at a hotel be wary if this scam too
imsmallfry
Europe isnt one country. Would be more helpful if it started the country.
Ohhhlookaunicorneatingasamurai
The Education Scam: In America they tell you that you can be successful in any career that you study for.
CatchyUsername123
I have never heard one person say that you can be successful in any career
HotSpoon
Private Schools have fooled people into thinking their are better or more exclusive than public universities which is usually the opposite.
Romale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpwAOHJsxg
MiasmaCorrigan
Even worse, they charge you outrageous prices for a code on a piece of paper - and you can only use that once!
peskyboner
Had a guy try the shoe shine scam on me in Istanbul. Friend warned me just before I picked it up. Thing is, I was wearing flip flops
peskyboner
Also, the taxi scam in Budapest. Did the math, knew my fare would be ~2200, all I had was 2500 (~$10). Get there and he tells me it's 4000>>
peskyboner
>>"Because of the red lights." I was going to give him nothing (as I do when American taxis try to rip me off) but my date convinced me to>>
peskyboner
>>give him the 2500, plus she gave him 500. Still mad about it, but at least I got laid... But I'm still mad about it.
Untamed64
If you don't separate the pictures, it becomes hard to read on mobile devices
RogueEwok
Never ever ever let anybody touch your hands/arms. Don't shake hands. Once they have your hand, they have control. Learned that the hard way
PBlendvig
Haha, i fell for the one with the CD in New York. Now i have a crappy mixtape.
Isuckatbeingagirl
They do it in Los Angeles
johneventually1
Las Vegas same deal. CD was ok though so not a total loss...
irishrelief
TIL Paris is full of assholes.
OPS3C
Rome was pretty bad
Isuckatbeingagirl
It is, ignore everyone, it's the best thing to do
ExtraPotassium
Paris is full of tourists. Tourist scams follow tourists.
whamwhamwham
Yeah it's less of a "you'll look like a bad boyfriend" and more of a "there's 5 groups of 4 guys all working together in a small area"
RadmanTheWise
If you refuse to pay them they will literally follow you and shout at you for hours. It's fucking horrifying. None of them are French btw.
IFUCKEDBRADSWIFE
Has this happened to you?
WumboPower
Gypsies
DigMyTime
In New Mexico, someone will offer you a bowl of posole, if you accept you will be best friends forever and no longer allowed to leave 1\2.
DigMyTime
The state and you will understand why we call it the land of entrapment.
boringpigeon
Don't forget the 'mute' chinese lady on the nyc subway. She will hand everyone a pencil and then go away; comeback and ask for money.
Bassaker
Well, if she is mute she cant make a Fuss about me leaving with a new free pencil
boringpigeon
She was damn good at timing the stops. So she would come up the aisle before entering the next station.
NotQuiteDeadYetPool
I travel a lot and my best advice is wear cheap/fake jewelry, deep front pockets are harder to pick, and don't take your whole wallet.
RealFuckinNito
Mine: Use zippers. Lotsa zippers. And think about having all the pickpocketable stuff somewhere awkward as fuck like at the bottom of the
RealFuckinNito
bag underneath the food and watter where they'd have to pull the entire arm to try grab it. And keep your bags real tight.
NotQuiteDeadYetPool
I'm a dude, so don't carry many bags, but jeans with deep front pockets (Nautica) puts my wallet deep enough it'd look like they're going >
NotQuiteDeadYetPool
< in looking for little NotQutieDeadYetPool
SneakEFoxxe
Someone tried to pull the rose one on my brother, which may have been made even more awkward since he was actually with our sister.
SneakEFoxxe
He tried to explain it to him, but he pretended not to understand and kept repeating the phrase "for the beautiful woman"
RealFuckinNito
I don't know where this was but judging by spanish standards he probably didn't actually understand. You'd be surprised how little people
RealFuckinNito
who make a living out of talking to tourists on english know about the english language. Even the legal ones! Source: I'm spanish.
SneakEFoxxe
It was France, so it might be different, or it could be the same. Hard to be sure.
RapidBowelMovement
That shit happened to me, a little kid came up and tried to tie a bracelet on my wrist, drunk and surprised I pulled my arm away 1/2
RapidBowelMovement
The kid tried to tie it again and I refused, the kid was like 120 cm and decided to shoot a left hook too my nutsac, it hit perfectly 2/3
RapidBowelMovement
Now drunk and surprised I do not yet feel the pain and start laughing as the kid ran away in super sonic speed, look over to see my 3/4
RapidBowelMovement
Brother laying on the dirty backstreet in Rhodos laughing his ass of in tears, as the lingerin pain starting to set in I too lay on the 4/5
RapidBowelMovement
Dirty backstreet of Rhodos in laughing with mixed tears of pain and laughter 5/5 (sorry for 6/9 shit)
aurthadi
You know, I travelled most of Europe and Asia for about 5 years and nothing like this ever happened to me.
DoctorDrowsy
I saw some in India
Gammelfar
I to have traveled a lot too and haven't been approached either. They are pretty skilled at picking easy looking targets
peskyboner
Most of these involve pickpockets, which I've also never encountered, but then I tend to wear fairly tight pants.
debunker
I bet you have been targeted, you were just too smart to start engaging them.
SimpleRicks
I caught a man trying to pick pocket me while getting on the subway in St. Petersburg. He may have just wanted to grab my ass.
SimpleRicks
Nah, he was trying to get in me back pocketses. Felt a hand on my butt, reached back and pushed him in the chest before confronting him.
Lambpasty
I had the found ring one happen to me basically exactly as described in Paris a few years ago, I probably seemed very touristy though.
welluhwhatdoyouwantmetosay
I was once asked for directions in Belgium, but I just got there myself. I probably seemed not touristy enough.
OfficialJimmieRustlers
The only one I've experienced is altered taximeters in Prague, CZ. But many of these also happens pretty regularly to others
bigdickdalrymple
I was just in Prague and one of the locals there told me to never take taxis. Uber is much better/cheaper
OfficialJimmieRustlers
Taxi's were fine (even the scammers) if you approach them more like this "50 down to the city center, ok?"
AlexisWalker
Went on a tour of Britain with my fam. Had suitcases closed/locked at all times. Hotel cleaning lady cut in with a knife and raided my stuff
AlexisWalker
While we were out to lunch. Stole several small expensive items like $300 binoculars, $900 laptop notebook, $250 camera, and $80 sunglasses.
l8lurker
Hotel name?
AlexisWalker
Honestly don't remember. It was back in 2009. I seriously doubt there's any chance of recovering my property at this point.