Tenerife SCAM Warning ❗️ Be careful everyone..
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- čas přidán 25. 04. 2023
- A warning for anyone visiting Tenerife or Canary Islands!
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Well done Andrew for highlighting this , I personally haven't purchased any electrical/ electronic items on the island since first coming over 20 years ago , as you say if it sounds too good to be true , it normally is a scam or a dud piece of kit . I also only tend to use a card purchase with restaurants / bars etc that I know , otherwise I use cash , can't be too careful unfortunately. But great information as usual Andrew 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanx Andrew never made an electronic device purchase in Tenerife and will be back in June ❤
Last autumn a guy came out of a souvenir shop on the prom in Costa Adeje and tried to sell me a tablet for 30 Euros. I listened to what he had to say and knew it was a con and left. Whenever I passed that shop afterwards he kept saying he knew I'd be back as it was such I good deal. Eventually I decided to lie to him, saying that I worked in an electronics store back home, and that one of the perks was the latest gear at rock bottom prices, so wasn't interested. If they can lie to me then I can lie to them.
It was happening 25 years ago in Lanzarote. Can never understand why people would want to buy an expensive item while on holiday.
Pay cash only
I love Tenerife,and we're back in August, but the crime out there is getting pretty bad now,pick pocketing,bag snatching from the beach fraud, when are the police going to start to get a grip of this
Maybe when people pay their taxes in order that police forces are funded and resourced properly?
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It's been going on for years.
It is so sad that these things happen. It is not first time in Tenerife that this has happened with electronic goods.
A few years ago some of the stores did this sort of thing before, the use of credit cards is one of the oldest scams with their cloning copies. Very cleaver, but so glad you have highlighted it, we get it in mainland Spain also. Sad people who are ripping off people when they are in holiday, guard down etc. makes many people vulnerable to this.
Hopefully quite a few people will see this and not fall for it.
As they say there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Thank you for this post Andrew! This happened to us in Costa Adeje, shopping mall, clothes shop Asian people! Cut a long story short they took £2800 from our credit card. Nat West Bank wouldn't help us because they said we had entered the pin. I fought the case and went to the Finacial Ombudsman. Eventually he got our money back! It took 9 months! I have said before that the tour operators should be warning their clients that this could happen. I complained to Jet2, but they didn't want to know. The reps should at least make an announcement on the bus or something, anything, to warn people!
As always a great news update, yes we saw in the Daily Mail, thanks for sharing Andrew.
Finally someone properly exposed those scammers! Thank you for that post and I wish this will encourage more people to keep exposing scammers and eventually reduce them or at least prevent them to scale up.
I was thinking about providing similar content regarding tourist trap restaurants, particularly Agua y Sal in Tajao where they intentionally charge for significantly higher weight not even presenting actual weight when you order - based on reviews it is a general practice and I know for a fact that they are manipulating Google maps (they had duplicated entries, one with fake reviews and the other one for angry customers - Google took one down following my report), they trick SEO on their website ("the best fish restaurant on Tenerife"), etc.
Many thanks so good of you to keep us aware of all the different scams 👍🏻
Tried to get me couple of years ago. The shop was a tourist shop on seafront in Los cristianos between promenade restaurant and children playground. I mentioned cash not interested. So walked away but they were very determined.
I bought a So called Sony camera in Gran Can, Puerto Rico in 2006, from a shop on the seafront, The Indian guy and his father swore blind it was a genuine Sony product, but when I sent the warranty card off to Sony they rejected it and said it was a fake 😅 Lesson learned !
They are always Asian!
Thanks again Andrew for that really important advice. A Souvenir shop in Los Christianos tried to sell me an Pad while I was just buying some cheap pegs for the sun loungers in February.
I was offered an ipad only for €19,.😅 no way was I getting taken in.he told me to take it away that night & come back the next day & pay.i said,thank you,but no thank you.he wasn't too happy.😂
Great Vlog Andrew and thanks for letting us know 👌🏻
Thank you Andrew for bringing this to our attention 👍and for the recommendation , we stop in Parque Santiago , good to know we can buy electricals from that shop without worrying 😉
Good advice, Andrew. tbh i never use my card abroad. I prefer using cash,in Tenerife normally take out what we'll poss use during the day & split it between us,feel for those people ripped off while on holiday
Good your highlighting these problems because I think people think it can't happen to them especially If they are on holiday,I saw the article on those elderly people that got scammed and its sad but keep up the updates Inc the pick pockets and anything else,🙂👍
Thanks for the info Andrew 👍
Why would anybody buy electronic devices when u are on a sunny holiday? Seems very weird to me. If u are greedy and get a to good price to be true, then its ur own fault
One thing to consider is…
any electrical goods, watch or Camera brought abroad you need to check the warranty..even well know makes don’t all have a world wide warranty with them so once home your stick with a broken item .
Thanks Andrew for highlighting this issue! Brian was scammed by a shop that we had been looking in for souvenirs. He’d had a stroke previously and wasn’t as ‘savvy’ as usual. Anyway, despite my urging him to leave the shop, he bought a small ‘iPad’. He had to return a few days later as they were charging it etc for him. What a lot of guff! We got home and it was absolute rubbish. Even our grandchildren dismissed it. Stay alert folks and NEVER AGAIN!!!
Glad you have covered this 👍
Two years ago (2020) during pandemic we were in santiago 3 resort and purchased iphone 8 for my son from the shopping areas near the colourful fountain. It was an Indian guy who gave us a phone from under the counter and said it was his old one. The phone didn't work with uk card only spanish. Somehow we got back to the store and said it doesn't work but he refused to give us money back.... NEVER EVER AGAIN
Great advice Andrew, thx.... just proves that Cash will always be King imo.
We only bought charger plugs with USB connections because we forgot our plugs last time. We used that shop you recommend in Los Cris opposite that cafe where you like the pastries and sausage rolls. We went there too but couldn't see any sausage rolls so we went to Shaws for those.
Its awful Andrew. Thanks again for always taking the time to put this out there. 🥰🌞🥰Xxx
Many thanks Andrew for the heads up.
My husband and I were almost scammed in a shop in purto del Carmen last August, shop looked fancy with everything looking new and proper, just looking at a watch then he took out this Ipad told us it was top of the range 35euro only for our 12 year old grandson asked loads of questions and told us not to buy it, the guy was fuming he told my grandson I don't talk to children, he knew we were clueless but thanks to our grandson we would of been scammed, just don't buy anything from those shops
Well done Andrew great information 👏
Like u say be vigilant an watch what ur buying .Great advice as always x
One thing I learnt from my first holiday abroad there are more scammers abroad it’s a job people travel to do that as a career I only use card in mainstream stores abroad then mainly cash . Thanks Andrew any extra advice to keep safe to watch for thieves good idea 👍🏻
Really? i will never ever buy electronics from Tenerife, or other island. When it's that cheap? I won't trust it at all. It's very said for the people, and I hope they will get their money back😢
This happened to my mother in law & her friend about 8 years ago got home to find both their credit cards had been maxed in total £9000. We went to the police in Tenerife who were aware of the scams and were trying to catch them. Luckily they got all the money back it was in the san euginio shopping centre the man was giving them a lift back to the hotel and picking them up to show them how to use them every time they went back they charged them more without them knowing . They were both in their late 70s at the time . Please be careful ❗️
Well done highlighting this so important topic
Thank you so much for the warning we were lured into one of these shops in Costa adeje and the guy was very pushy offering me cut price goods including a Samsung tablet I smelt a rat thanks to your advice and walked out of the shop He was very very pushy thanks so much Andrew
Thank you for the information
great vid well done .its every where the scammers
Glad you highlighted this…
Thank you for the warning.
Thank you for this blog
Thank you are so helpful
Thanks for the video Andrew I would never buy electronic equipment abroad I always buy in the uk.
Nice one Andrew 👍🏻
When are you putting your first Florida vlog up this time ?? 😂looking forward to them. Your the next best thing if we can’t go😊
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Thank you for that vlog x
be back there in november for my 60 th birthday i wishing my life away cant wait this only our second visit there brilliant it was
I had this happen in a shop on the prom walk in las Americas ..lovely charming Indian man …trying to show me an iPad .I can see how people fall for the charm and care they show you….I knew it was rubbish but just for fun let him show me…. He as like and Indian Del Boy..when we walk past we say look out for Del Boy..
I’m a John Lewis girl…blooming good service in there .no one was fooling me.
My phone comes from our local independent phone shop any issues I pop back in .
Superb job 👏
Thanks Andrew. See you in a week.
If you want a tablet or any other electronic device buy it directly from the company that makes them
When I first came to Tenerife about 40 years ago, the electronic stores, camera stores etc., they were run by local people who would be really helpful, and you would come away with a real bargain.
10 years later, these shops were run by people, and I am sorry to say this, but it has to be said 'of Asian extraction', and you never got what you thought you were buying but an inferior product at an increased price.
Sadly, it seems that the trend has continued, and now some of these places are run by outright scammers.
It's so true. I can remember this aswell. For me it was a little bit later, but yes, it was like that.
Don't be sorry to say so! It's the truth, they are mostly Asian gangs! It happened to us!
Thanks Andrew tried to scam us years ago and were quite aggressive along beach front walking towards adeje xx
We only use cash when we go on holiday and only take out what we need as we go out at the time, rest is left in safe. 👍
Avoid Comet electrical store ,based in the San Eugenio shopping complex, Las Americas, I was offered very cheap VCR, I thought it was too good to be true and it was, very over the top hard sell, some good advice, if you show any interest while looking in their shop window they are out of the shop in a flash and all over you like a rash.
Ohhh thank you for this information! How awful!!
We were browsing a souvenir shop to the left of Ale Hop at La Pinta beach last week. The inane questions soon turned to a phone. Off we went, his neighbour on the other side of the stairs tried it a couple of years ago
We were in a cloth shop on the prom in Costa Adeje in January 23 and we brought a few shirts then we were offered a tablet. We declined after a lot of presure we left.
Saw this on FB and in media UK about thes scammers. Tried to catch us out last year but were are far too wary thank goodness.
You are better buying in the UK from familiar well known retail outlets.
Was staying at the Best Tenerife in Las Américas on Tuesday 9th May, and woke up on 10th to realise our room had been accessed through the balcony of the ground floor apartment. Managed to steal a bag containing a contactless card which was used and a mobile which has been tracked to Los Cristianos now we’ve arrived home. Attempted to report it to the police to be told numerous times that they don’t speak English and were unable to help unless we called a number which was disconnected. Totally shocking and ruined the holiday, place doesn’t seem as safe as it has been previously.
Brilliant information Andrew I now it goes on every were but not the extent of tenerife surely the police need to step up and clamp down 🤨🤨
Thank you
Especially when you are going home next day
This has happened for years why do the police not step in and warn jobs they will be fined or closed down if they continue
maybe the police might be bribed? 😅
I was credit card scammed in Turkish hotel reception, nice looking Turkish lady took my credit card to show her boss as there were some problems with payment, and later they stolen 150 dollars from my card. So Now I keep limits and small amount of money
I'm in my mid sixties, London born an bred, scam me, go on, I double dare yer..lol
I believe if one is from a village or tranquil town, one is more suspectable to these issues. Trust no one, do not engage in eye contact, ignore verbal prompts, and you're be fine.
Remember buying a laser pen on the islands when I was a kid, it worked but that's the only thing gadget wise I'd buy there😂😂
I came across this scam in San Euginio a couple of years ago. The scammers also became very intimidatory threatening to call the police when I rumbled them and took a picture of the outside of the outlet to warn others. I also put a report into the company that manages the shopping centre but never even had an acknowledgement.
These people should be locked up!
CASH IS KING!
So sad I went to Paris and Venice and it was the same I wanted to go to the Canary Islands for vacation but honestly I won’t after this video - when I want to travel I want to relax not worry and always be on alert that’s not a vacation for me so sad so so sad
I think all touristic places are same as there are many dodge people around..rip off, pick pocket, scam etc. It's better to stay in a quiet place with beautiful views..rather than a big city.
Been going on for years and years, nobody gives a damn follow the money who owns the shops 😮 the scammers are just renting them.
Just got back from Tenerife a couple of days ago…. Was next to los Cristianos…. People should watch the transaction fully, not just put the card on the reader at the end of the transaction 😂
Only thing we got skanked on was taxi prices 😂😂😂
They tried this with my partner years ago trying to get him in the store but I said no and walked away
I was scammed in shop called sun , sea, and sand. Las Americas , I went into a souvenir shop in Costa Adege, the assistant asked was I interested in a tablet for 30 euros. I went on to buy a more update one for 125 euros. They charged me £ 1750.5 , no receipt . The last day of my holiday.
. They said I had to go to sun sea and sand to set the tablet up in English .
Myself and wife both had money scammed by tablet scammers in Costa Adeje just up from hotel Tenerife they got us to take the bait and we had to go back next day to pick it up they took us for car ride to another shop which we think was in ports Colin we had cards scammed an they also took cash we are still awaiting outcome from ombudsman this also happened eleven months ago please be aware of them they are very good at what they do to people have a good holiday do y let them ruin it regards Paul and wife
Thank you for the warning 👍Do you reccomend to use cash all the time? Shops, restaurants etc? Going to Tenerife for the first time.
Cash is King 👑
@@TheKnightStrider agree 100%
I live here and 100% would trust BGR in the Passarella centre in Los Cristianos. I've purchased from them on loads of occasions including ordering line.
This stuff is getting out of hand, you will soon need to do a Tenerife version of Crimewatch, thats if police step it up and do something.
My husband bought a s.l laptop didn't get done for money but its never worked properly that was in Adeje
It was a very good travel blog today of warning people of rip - offs tenerife scam warning to be careful everyone andrew
Cash is king! any business who refuses cash would be a red flag for me
Yes, actually the most of stores prefer cash as they don't have to pay tax...unless they try to scam.
Forgot to add cheers for that Andrew👍🏻
Won't buy electrical goods in Tenerife and would not pay by card so if they won't take cash tough they won't get my custom.
Santa cruz...Best buy...I brought a phone there brilliant discount no problem
This has been going on for years, this is nothing new, the local councils and authorities know about these outlets, but do not seem to do anything or care, looks as though, as long as these businesses are paying their local taxes and rents , just get on with it. This is purely my take on it.
Keep out of these outlets, you are a victim not a customer.
i purchase a watch in lanzarote back in 2017 it cost only 50 euro the bloddy hands fell of it 2 days later lol
I got scammed with a tablet in a shop iin 2018 in Puerto Colon by Ale Hope. After 3 hours of waffle I got scammed on the sim card that would give me 1TB of cloud use and cost me #2k+. When I got home to the UK the next day it was a Samsung 16gb card. Tried to get credit card company to stop payment but they couldn't. Came back in 2019 another shop in the same area tried the same scam. I screamed at him as loud as I could the he was a wicked scammer and should be shut down. I got people to hear me and come up to me afterwards. He moved quickly to the back of the shop.
Scottsman (Kevin,) is constantly warning against this scam but thanks for the warning. I’ve been targeted (they got nowt from me!)
Be careful folks - too gud to be true - it usually is.
20 years ago ish . Had a similar problem .. my husband paid a deposit .. cash .. €30 .. for a camera .. went back to shop to pick up. Was a problem.. asked for deposit back . . Tried to say didn't give him any money.. my husband threatened him .. guy said gonna get police your on camera .. said if on camera police will know I give you money .. ..we were younger then 😂
Its been going on years this scam
Patter merchants try to gain your confidence. Anything that sounds too good to be true is.
A trip to Media Markt is worth it.
I was in Fuertaveventura some years ago, before the euro. We were warned about scammers addind a zero to your bill. Besides that, I had my my £1800.00 video camera with me. I saw in one of the electronic shops, the very same camera for £250.00. Intrigued, I asked the guy about it. He let me handle it. It was absolutely awful... Hardly any of the functions worked the screen was like a Picasso painting. When I pointed this out to the guy, he turned nasty and almost threw me out his shop. What I did notice was that ALL this type of shop were run by Asians. Lesson to everyone... DON'T BUY FROM THESE CROOKS. Don't even enquire. There are NO bargains in these shops.
Hi mate top boy with info on scams I commented two days ago and now received mail from London police who are working with Spanish police who have identified me n my wife as scammed brits I will let yo know outcome well played matey👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😊
Watch out for Gary he is so charming but once he pulls you in your money is gone with meant to be satalite phone with the ipad😂😂😂
This year I got caught by 3 lots, enjoyed making them sweat. Needless to say I did not fall for it. They say they are employed by Samsung. They lured me in by giving you discount at the market then they start talking about tablets.
Glad you wasted their time!
Dasha also love canaria
My dad was offered a tablet and salesman was pushy
Unfortunately he used his card to buy other stuff in that shop
So he came out explainined it too me we both agreed it sounded fishy
So I could him to transfer his money into my account until he was home
That way we could peace of mind and enjoy our holiday otherwise we would of spent it worrying
In future might be best to use pre loaded currency cards for holiday use
Nearly got me !!!
Why don't you do a vlog to see what's the police are doing about it also those scamming taxi drivers
scamming taxi drivers???
Going for first time on may 10th. Anyone gove me advice? Do i take cash or use cards?