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As scam artists abroad bred tourists in 2013
I strongly recommend that you familiarize yourself with the most common types of scams and fraud tourists in different countries, which have become very popular this year.
1. Divorce Turkish
- It was during the May holidays in a small restaurant in the old town of Side,
- Said Sergey Biryukov of Dolgoprudnogo.- My wife and there are many nazakazali: Prices on the menu were quite affordable. But the amount of the invoice, which we then brought, turned three times higher. Of course, we immediately became angry, then we brought another menu (the first at us immediately after the order was taken), and in it - new prices, just like in Moscow. And I can not prove anything. We tried to threaten the police - it is useless. During the bid amount, however, dropped twice, but still it was more than that, which we ate.
Protection from such restaurant threw a very simple: you always leave menu on the table until settlement with the waiter.
2. Divorce Thai
Irina Shapkina from Novosibirsk was vacationing in Thailand, more than once (Siberians generally chosen eastern resorts), but on the eve of March 8 yet fallen for the bait local bred:
- In some temple in Bangkok Thai I came up to me with bags of corn grains. And there were many pigeons around, all of them were photographed. So he offers me the corn for the pigeons for 50 baht. Expensive, but it still puts me a few bags. I ask: "For everything?" He nods his head, that "yes", but when I nafotkal and all the grain out, it requires me to have 50 baht per pack. I refused, but then stood up shouting, noise, his friends came running ...
The story is not over. Irina quickly approached the police and asked the documents and began to assure that her visa is framed incorrectly, so he confiscated her passport "to determine." As a result, the girl had to leave instead of 50 from 1000 baht, which moved into the pockets of the seller and the custody order. Only later, by the guide, Irina learned that the policeman was a fake.
To pay for all purchased on the street (water, food, etc.), you must immediately until the trader does not put a new account. And the original documents must always be stored in the hotel, carrying with them only photocopies.
3. Break-Dutch
In Amsterdam, the Hague and other tourist centers of the Netherlands lzhepolitseyskie bred our brother somewhat differently.
- We went with friends from the same institution, and the police in our face - identity: "At the moment in the country there are many counterfeit currency. Present your checking "- he recalled the case of a recent vacation metropolitan student.
- We have shown the euro, and we had seven hundred dollars. The policeman looked at them on the light returned and apologized for the inconvenience. And then it turned out that one hundred dollar bill into a one-dollar - because they look like. Apparently, submenus.
Police European countries shmonali passersby without the sanction and the more reason. This is not Russia. Hint swindler, that do not go away with him to the land - it is likely that a rogue immediately lost in the crowd.
4. Divorce Italian
But I already saw myself. In the heart of Rome, on Via del Corso, where many shops, was covered with a green blanket table at which young people collected money from tourists at the rehabilitation of drug addicts. That is, they collected signatures against drug abuse, but then somehow it turned out that each signatory is required for their civic stance and still pay.
- Lead to it only tourists, - said Alexander, a member of one of the tour operators in the Apennines. - Local well aware that the money collected goes not to the fight against drug trafficking and a new dose. These tables puts the mafia itself, and associated with Cosa Nostra carabinieri do not touch them. Cheaper and safer simply to pass by.
Signatures on documents in an incomprehensible language never is, and even more so - to give money to obscure targets. Here the recipe: "my yours do not understand».
5. Divorce Bulgarian
Natalia from Moscow decided in Sunny Beach change their euros into local levs, the benefit of the exchange rate in the near bank seemed to be the best. The cashier gave her cash and asked to sign the check. Natalya put his autograph, but when Lev counted, it turned out - they are less than it should be:
- I was indignant, but the cashier showed me a check, which was indicated a very different course: "If the undersigned, therefore, agree with this, so it is useless to complain».
However, in Bulgaria, as well as in Crimea, the flying public is usually constant, so the wiring is already known to many. In its place comes a new right now. On board with the course staff exchangers instead of the names of currencies are fixed magnets with the flags of the United States or the European Union. And then when the tourists are outraged that they have sold levs at the less favorable rate, say that the score is not a course, and the cost of the magnets. And it all under the law without reproach.
When trading currencies, previously always necessary to ask again about the course of the cashier and ask him to type on a calculator the amount that is owed to you in the end.
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1. Divorce Turkish
- It was during the May holidays in a small restaurant in the old town of Side,
- Said Sergey Biryukov of Dolgoprudnogo.- My wife and there are many nazakazali: Prices on the menu were quite affordable. But the amount of the invoice, which we then brought, turned three times higher. Of course, we immediately became angry, then we brought another menu (the first at us immediately after the order was taken), and in it - new prices, just like in Moscow. And I can not prove anything. We tried to threaten the police - it is useless. During the bid amount, however, dropped twice, but still it was more than that, which we ate.
Protection from such restaurant threw a very simple: you always leave menu on the table until settlement with the waiter.
2. Divorce Thai
Irina Shapkina from Novosibirsk was vacationing in Thailand, more than once (Siberians generally chosen eastern resorts), but on the eve of March 8 yet fallen for the bait local bred:
- In some temple in Bangkok Thai I came up to me with bags of corn grains. And there were many pigeons around, all of them were photographed. So he offers me the corn for the pigeons for 50 baht. Expensive, but it still puts me a few bags. I ask: "For everything?" He nods his head, that "yes", but when I nafotkal and all the grain out, it requires me to have 50 baht per pack. I refused, but then stood up shouting, noise, his friends came running ...
The story is not over. Irina quickly approached the police and asked the documents and began to assure that her visa is framed incorrectly, so he confiscated her passport "to determine." As a result, the girl had to leave instead of 50 from 1000 baht, which moved into the pockets of the seller and the custody order. Only later, by the guide, Irina learned that the policeman was a fake.
To pay for all purchased on the street (water, food, etc.), you must immediately until the trader does not put a new account. And the original documents must always be stored in the hotel, carrying with them only photocopies.
3. Break-Dutch
In Amsterdam, the Hague and other tourist centers of the Netherlands lzhepolitseyskie bred our brother somewhat differently.
- We went with friends from the same institution, and the police in our face - identity: "At the moment in the country there are many counterfeit currency. Present your checking "- he recalled the case of a recent vacation metropolitan student.
- We have shown the euro, and we had seven hundred dollars. The policeman looked at them on the light returned and apologized for the inconvenience. And then it turned out that one hundred dollar bill into a one-dollar - because they look like. Apparently, submenus.
Police European countries shmonali passersby without the sanction and the more reason. This is not Russia. Hint swindler, that do not go away with him to the land - it is likely that a rogue immediately lost in the crowd.
4. Divorce Italian
But I already saw myself. In the heart of Rome, on Via del Corso, where many shops, was covered with a green blanket table at which young people collected money from tourists at the rehabilitation of drug addicts. That is, they collected signatures against drug abuse, but then somehow it turned out that each signatory is required for their civic stance and still pay.
- Lead to it only tourists, - said Alexander, a member of one of the tour operators in the Apennines. - Local well aware that the money collected goes not to the fight against drug trafficking and a new dose. These tables puts the mafia itself, and associated with Cosa Nostra carabinieri do not touch them. Cheaper and safer simply to pass by.
Signatures on documents in an incomprehensible language never is, and even more so - to give money to obscure targets. Here the recipe: "my yours do not understand».
5. Divorce Bulgarian
Natalia from Moscow decided in Sunny Beach change their euros into local levs, the benefit of the exchange rate in the near bank seemed to be the best. The cashier gave her cash and asked to sign the check. Natalya put his autograph, but when Lev counted, it turned out - they are less than it should be:
- I was indignant, but the cashier showed me a check, which was indicated a very different course: "If the undersigned, therefore, agree with this, so it is useless to complain».
However, in Bulgaria, as well as in Crimea, the flying public is usually constant, so the wiring is already known to many. In its place comes a new right now. On board with the course staff exchangers instead of the names of currencies are fixed magnets with the flags of the United States or the European Union. And then when the tourists are outraged that they have sold levs at the less favorable rate, say that the score is not a course, and the cost of the magnets. And it all under the law without reproach.
When trading currencies, previously always necessary to ask again about the course of the cashier and ask him to type on a calculator the amount that is owed to you in the end.
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