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| Mexico City is one of the most dangerous travel destinations in the world. |
Don´t get fooled abroad on your weekend trip or vacation to the big cities.
Today Mirror reports that a japanese couple were charged 400 euro for two plates of pasta and fish at the restaurant Antico Caffè di Marte in Rome.
In the TV-series
Scam City, Conor Woodman warns you about the following common tourist scams:
1. Rome, Italy:
a) Very expensive food and drinks. Up
to ten times higher prices than at home.
b) So called gladiators charge you big
sums for unauthorized tourist guiding.
2. Barcelona, Spain:
a) Large Romanian pickpocket gangs
surround you in the subway or in the streets and steal your wallet and
disappear.
3. London, England:
a) Poor Pakistanians try to steal your
mobile phone at bars.
b) Hustlers try to make you pay in
advance for non-existing parties and girls.
4. Hong Kong, China:
a) Shops sell false worthless Chinese
antiques at high prices.
b) Sugar babes try to make friends to
get your money.
5. Marrakech, Morocco:
a) False carpets are sold at high
prices.
b) Three card monte street hustles. (It´s impossible to win if they don´t want you to.)
6. Buenos
Aires, Argentina:
a) False money (50/100-pesos bills) is passed out on
a large scale everywhere to tourists.
b) Beautiful black widows contact you
at bars, poison you and then steal everything.
7. Las Vegas, USA:
a) False VIP party tickets are sold in
the streets for quite a sum. (Up to a 100 dollars)
b) False Vegas apartment rentals on the
internet with addresses that don´t exist.
8. Bangkok, Thailand:
a) False worthless jewelry sold for big
sums to tourists.
b) Clip joint scams at strip clubs.
(They overcharge your drinks and threat you if you don´t pay.)
c) Sugar babes looking for naïve sugar daddies
to get hold of their cash.
9. Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil:
a) Pickpocket gangs on the beaches try
to disappear with your bag.
10. Istanbul, Turkey:
a) Clip joint scams at clubs. They can
force you to pay a 1000 bucks (and more) for five drinks, and the police don´t
give a damn.
11. New Orleans, USA:
a) False Mardi Gras party tickets are
sold for up to 400 dollars. Then they don´t let you in.
12. Bogotá, Colombia:
a) Beautiful black widows at the hotels
serve you scopolamine “mickeys”. Then you´re transported away and imprisoned
for days or weeks while the gang empties your accounts, since you tell them the
truth (scopolamine) and reveals your card´s pin code.
13. Mexico City, Mexico:
a) One of the world´s most dangerous
destinations together with Bogotá. Here cab drivers can kidnap you, keep you
locked up for a long time while they claim a very big ransom. Even the police can be involved in these scams.
14. New York, USA:
a) New York is today a cleaned up city
and actually a very safe tourist destination. Pickpockets though exist so watch your
wallet, especially at bars.
b) False perfume made in China is sold
cheap in Canal Street.
