5 TRICKS TOURISTS FALL FOR (Honest Guide)
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billy your the guy on drew binsky’s videos
@@dontask8051 yup
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Here in Mexico there's a scam where a guy approaches you with a gun, then takes your phone and wallet 🤷🏻♂️
Happens in my county too.
In some places you have to buy a brick with everything you have or they will use it on you.
I'm from San Luis Potosí, and that's true
Same In my country
The difference is that here they shoot first and ask for your things after that
@@moh4197 wtf
A taxi driver in Greece once told me, in reference to scams in Athens,"If you ever feel bad for someone, you're getting scammed."
wow this is some real shit
Lol sound advise.
Well half the fucking country was getting disability checks for all sorts of nonesence. Think there was some town were 35% of the people living their claimed to be blind, all of them sitting ass and collecting wellfare. See where that got them, they're all begging the EU for money now.
@@JL-cn1qi stfup trash stay in your boring country and cry
tempe adm01 Lol, your country is begging our “boring” country for money so what does that make you?
Imagine giving that guy in the Mercedes Belorusian rubbles....
he'd know
*rubles
Pretty sure the guy would immediately notice if you were to give him some Belarusian rocks
That would be so funny to see his reaction 😂😂 There is no need to grammar check someone guys. Its CZcams, you don't know what their first language is, it doesn't make you look clever it makes you look nasty. The rock one was at least funny, if you are gonna do it, do it right 😂👏
@@kirstybrown1185 Some peoole can be pretty nasty and rude when correcting others. I have been corrected before (by both rude & kind individuals) and if done in a nice way it's appreciated. I don't mean to make mistakes (but I am human) and want to correct them to avoid being ridiculed by others and to make sure I am accurately conveying my thought. I have corrected others (also in a kind way & sometimes in a more rude way) and usually just want to be helpful to make sure they are being understood in the way they intended and so others aren't mean or disrespectful to them. When I have been unkind it was because they were being unkind or rude (I know, 2 wrongs don't make a right) to someone else or myself. I can barely help myself when someone is correcting someone elses mistake with a poor or inaccurate correction and they are doing so in a rude or unkind manner. (I know that's not an excuse for my rudeness. I am just being honest though.) The world would be a great place if we all helped each other and were kind in the process! I took your comment as sort of sticking up/defending others and thought another perspective may be of interest or beneficial. I hope this wasn't taken in a rude or malicious way! That's not what I intended if it was. I wish you and yours the best!
I assume everyone is trying to scam me 100% of the time.... sad way to live but effective... last time I let my guard down next thing I knew I was marrying the scammer
True. Scammers only target stupid and gullible tourists. The best solution is not to stop walking to talk to anyone, simply ignore them and walk away. As soon as they have your attention they’re going to rob you, including pick pockets.
The reason why the police don’t do anything is because these scams can easily be avoided. It’s the tourists fault.
scammed for ur house and kids. oldest trick in the book
Scammers confuse me. It looks like an awful lot of work to avoid actual work.
that's exactly what I am thinking about everytime when I see some of them :-D
they are here because it works, even an 1% success rate in high moving city zone with naive freshmen every hours is much money
@@Pidalin most of them just stand around collecting free money all day.. what's the work?
@@youtubeuser206 Yes, most of them. But some of them are doing very advanced tricks and using many energy to get some money so technicaly, they are working. :-D
Yes, because most of them don’t have a proper legal status and thus cannot legally work
There’s this huge scam in America called COLLEGE
In Sweden they have free health care and college. I also have to got there for boot camp when I'm 18, because if I dont I'll lose my citizenship.
I couldn’t get a job after my Doctorate in Chicano Studies. Now I’m voting for Elizabeth Warren to erase my debt.
There’s also this thing called taxes
Joseph Dale Hope your ok with loosing CZcams then.
Skadoosh wow that’s deep
A common scam in my town, is someone spills something on you then they offer to clean it off and they pat you down cleaning the stuff off best they can. While they pat you they pick pocket you and take your stuff.
Sound like you’ve been watching imposters lol
Idk why you'd let people touch you
I commented already on another scam method but i experienced this one as well. I was in Buenos aires walking somewhere with my headphones in. Suddenly i see in the back of my eyes someone weaving and talking to me. First, i keep walking because i think they dont talk to me. But they follow me so i turn around. In that moment i realize i am full of body lotion from my shoes right up my back up to my backpack. An older couple conveniently has napkins and wants to help me clean me up. Luckily i was already suspicious because they were following me so vehemently even after i initially ignored them. Well, i didn't get scammed but my day was ruined anyways.
In the US there doesn’t seem like we have many in person scams for tourists. But the one I’ve encountered the most is some dude asking for money for food or gas. You offer them food or gas but they don’t want either, just money.
Always a smart thing to say: what kind of (insert product) do you need?
Not to be mean but I think here in the EU businesses are heavily regulated.
In the US, if you want to scam people, just open a business. Lol
@@piiinkDeluxe you comment this on a video about many scams in the EU? Money exchangers, taxi companies. I don’t understand what you are saying.
@@nickram81 yes, that's true, we have scammers too. But in my subjective view, it is harder to build a scam business over here since we have lots of regulations.
I heard about someone who fell for a health insurance scam in the US for example. A "company" like that wouldn't be allowed to be open for business here.
@@piiinkDeluxe I’ll agree the EU probably has more business regulations.
Man: *robs a bank*
Police: Arrests the man
Man: *claims to be innocent*
Police: BUT U ROBBED A BANK!
Man: IT WAS FOR CHARITY!
This is what commies think about everything
Cop: Oh thank you sir, have a nice day
Coming to the USA
Someone did that they donated to hungry kids in Yemen he got hung while smiling god bless him amen
@@lilkandy7042 wow
Here is a very common scam I've fallen for and see all the time:
A beautiful woman gets you to fall in love with her. You get married then when you least expect it, BOOM! She's sleeping with Rick, divorcing you and taking half of everything you've worked all your life to build up.
Watch out fellas.
Sounds very specific
epic
@@amadorbullies exactly.
A statement very close to his home maybe.
Sounds like Barbie. She ends up with Ken's house, Ken's car and Ken's boat!
Remember the three golden word - thank you , sorry & step off bitch..
Simple travel tip. Don't enter into a conversation, transaction, or situation that you don't initiate.
Whew, what a boring way to travel that must be
Awful advice, I’ve bought things off people approaching me before. You just have to be comfortable saying no, haggling and not getting into a dangerous situation.
@Benjamin Hoyt That's right. You have to take seriously the fact that nobody's in business to benefit you at their own expense. The latter is known as "charity work". There's a sinner born every mucket.
This is just how i live my life, im too scared of talking to ppl with my voice.
Nah, my greatest stories of travel have come from me saying yes to people coming up to me. My advice is evaluate every situation that is initaited by someone, and say no if something is not right about the whole thing
I know this comment is a little late, but a couple years ago when I was in Paris with my family and while we were crossing passing by a popular square a guy approached with a basket full of red roses. He went something like '' A beautiful flower for a beautiful lady.' and gave a single rose to my mom. She of course gladly accepted and the guy quickly pushed three more roses into her arms. We all felt somewhat bemused but happy for her, so we thanked him and went to move on. The guy immediately started demanding money and when we - now slightly annoyed - explained we thought he meant them as a gift he forcefully yanked them out of moms arms and walked away.
I guess it could be argued it was just a business strategy, but the way he went about it was exactly the same as those guys with animals who demand money after photographing you.
Had a similar encounter in New York. The guys were kinda scary! Hated it!
That’s something that happens. I can confirm the guy above me because I live in nyc
Yea if anyone did that I’d have to fight them. No other choice
If those dudes want money after I take a photo I’m going to be like “the fuck are you going to do about it?” And just walk away
They are all over Italy as well, same exact scam
-went to Prague
-bought prostitute
-was a dude
-not cool
What if she was before he, Who was before she?
All I know is THEY had a pp
fimkolli m worst scam ever.
Go to Thailand. Youll see a lot of them lmao
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I scammed a scammer once 😂 Just gave him printed fake money
Octopus Of the nine realms oh who cares
He likely used your fake money to scam someone else. So you only really made the problem worse.
@@Catterall101 No worries, he smashed it to the floor
Zab Zab what did he do to u after moisting your fake money?
You're a scammer, you scammer.
I had a guy beg me for gas when I was 17 in Nashville. I felt so good giving him $5. A week later I saw him begging someone else for gas. I felt violated. I don’t give to beggars anymore.
Yeah the scumbags ruin for the real people in need.
If someone seems to need something then you can offer that thing, if it isn't money, if you want to help them. It helps weed out scammers.
I always tell them I'd buy something on my debit card for them but I'd never give them cash the last guy asked me for a bag of doritos and a honey bun lol of course I obliged
Ones gave a beggar with a sad story money, 30 minutes later I went to the grocery store and stood behind him in line with him buying booze and sigarettes haha
I once gave a homeless man money, then a few weeks later I saw him at a fucking football game😂
a scam that is pretty common is places offer "free tours" then near the end they will get pretty nasty and demand you pay
Or they lure you into their store and demand you buy it. That way they can turn around and say that the money was for the item and not the tour.
Scams are already shameless. These take it to a new low:
1. Faking a handicap.
2. Saying it's for charity.
3. Running the scam with your kids in the car watching.
if ppl willing to cheat others over money... i dont think shame or morality is goin to on their mind
@@MarkSkater bad month huh
Yeah most of these guys couldn’t care less about the other person
Gypsy in a Mercedes on Irish reg plates. Waste of space, we know this scam in Poland. We call this Rom service.
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When a guy does a better job at preventing scams than local police and city's officials ......
Local police and politcians are all corupted and all is big game called Mafia City Czech Republic
Because these scams can easily be avoided if the tourist wasn’t so stupid. You can’t police stupidity.
@@notmenotme614 good point, but the fact that Local police didn't even notice this makes them much more stupid than the tourist who literally knows nothing about the place.
@@notmenotme614 how is a tourist stupid just because they've never been to the plane and had never seen these types of scams?
@@Mecal21 Because all of them depend on some type of interaction from the tourist. For example, the tourist stopping to talk to them or the tourist buying a fake ticket or the tourist having their wallet in their back pocket. And all of theses scams can be easily avoided if you ignore the con man and walk straight past them and look after your wallet. Only buy tickets from the official place.
Gold ring scam in Paris where guy walking towards you bends over to coincidentally find a gold ring on the ground that he doesn’t want so tries to sell it on the spot for a great deal
I had that one happen to me and my daughter in Paris. The guy was with his "pregnant wife". When I just walked away, he spit on me. Nice guy.
@BlueGaming C it's illegal but it's not the US, you can't sue for every shit...
Basically just don’t trust people if your a tourist and your good
I just don't trust people in general
The scam I recently had: my cat meowing for food when he was just fed
There is another
Sir.....you got a smart cat now give it some more food god damnit
Every. Day.
Cats and their owners are either the devil or the devil's advocate.
His brother lives at my place!
I’m not even going to Prague. Why am I watching this?
Because you will go to prague, you just dont know it yet
Lot of these scams are used pretty much at all places where there are tourists. They're all pretty obvious.
Me to
because, you are here now
Alot of these scams happen in most cities now. I see them in Edinburgh quite a lot. Most are Romanian or bulgarians. They are so stupid they think no-one knows what they are doing.
I was a student in Lyon, France, and this happens a lot from what I've heard from international students. An elderly guy would drop his jar of hundreds of coins on a train. Some nice tourist would help him pick up those coins. As she returned to her seat, her belongings and bags are gone. It's more prominent in places like Paris.
Back when I was about 12, I think, I was hanging out with a couple of friends in downtown Copenhagen, and this guy walked up to us, and he asked us, how much diapers cost, and that he needed them for his child, whom he was living with at the train station because they were homeless, and we told him the price, and so he asked us to come into the convenience store with him and show him, where they were. While making our way towards the store, he kept thanking us for wanting to buy these diapers for him, and we were all kind of confused, because we didn't really know, what was going on, so we didn't really do anything about it. (We were also kind of scared of him keep that in mind.) As we made our way into the store, he quickly found a lot more stuff. (Diapers, electric toothbrushes, dental floss, baby food, etc.) That was where we realized, what we had gotten ourselves into, but since we were just CHILDREN, we were too scared to do anything about it, and so we paid for all of the items, which were about 48€, and he quickly grabbed the receipt, and we went out of the store. He then asks us to go to a special ATM and withdraw about 100€, but since we knew, what had been going on, we told him, that we were now broke, and that we needed to catch a bus. Now the way this scam worked was, that he would tell people, that he was living with his baby at a train station, and make them believe, that he just needs advice or just diapers from the convenience store, and when they would believe him, he would get even more stuff, which would cost the victim a lot of money. When he would get the items, he'd grab the receipt, and return all of the items, when the victims were gone. Now, the thing, that disgusts me the most is, that he did this to CHILDREN. Scamming adults is messed up, but children. That's really messed up.
Yea that’s messed up. Also, if someone in Denmark claims to be homeless, it’s most likely a lie since being homeless is a choice. You chose to be homeless in Denmark. It probably sounds fake and weird for non-Danish people, but it’s true. You don’t meet a homeless person in Denmark who doesn’t wanna be homeless. Or maybe you do, but then it’s because he or she would just rather be homeless than not being homeless.
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I fell for that couple months ago. I still was not sure if the person in question was lying or not, but I was afraid to be wrong and to refuse someone in actual need.
Initially the guy tried to sell me some perfume. He said that he bought it some time ago as a gift, but now desperately needs money because he was scammed at work and they did not pay him for the month. And yeah, he had family, few kids, lived in a communal hostel (or how is it called?), etc.
I was willing to buy this thing, but the price was surprisingly very high for my income and remaining finances.
When I told him I can't buy it and refused to budge with his... let's say "gentle demands", he asked if I can buy him something to eat for his family.
Now, I was of the impression that if I buy food instead of giving money, it won't go to waste, and he will have to eat it. I mean, what he could possibly do with it otherwise?
So, we came, and I agreed to buy chicken and a bread. He kept asking for more things "for kids", like bananas for vitamins, etc - so I just told him how much money I have (a lot less than I actually had, but I wanted to keep him in limits without being rude).
And he got like tripple the cost of that. Yes, diapers, 3 loafs of bread, whole bunch of fruits, chicken and nuggets and such.
I sensed that it was wrong, but something in stupid me refused to refuse him all together. Maybe in a rush I did not think that it was okay to refuse, even if I already agreed "to help".
I think that, and some faith in humanity and hid sad face and tone, is what kept me from pulling out right there.
But anyways, at the checkout, when the terminal says my card has not enough money (I quietly placed exact amount I promised him on my virtual card) - he acts all sad and slow, making everyone increasingly impatient and forming a big line, and reluctantly removes items one by one, asking to check if I have enough now. After 3 tries (where he still kept diapers we did not agree on) and my words that if he did not get it quicker I would just walk away, he sadly makes the cost low enough by removing extra items (diapers included, which was like most of the cost even at the beginning), I pay, he thanks me, and we part ways.
I was waiting at a trade center one bus stop from the shop where it happened, and another man with same national face comes to me and also starts to try selling me perfume. After I said that I just have been through that he claims to be his brother (actually, that could be the only truth they told me). And says that they need money so much he stole this thing from a shop, and he is ready to go this far for his family, etc.
After I said I can't buy such pricy things, he just asked for money for help.
He did not get stopped by my words that I just bought his brother food already like 30 minutes ago. After I (firmly this time, finally, stupid me) refused, he acted all insulted and silently stormed off, like I was greedy to not help him in need or something.
As I said - until this day I at least hoped that my money, although taken in this unhonest way, helped some people eat. Even if they did not need it and could buy it themselves, at least this money was used for food of all things.
But your words about refunding it actually made it painfully click for me once more. Because as I'm writing these words, I remember that instead of taking it home or going with them somewhere, he put the bag in the locker at the shop, and I don't remember where the receipt went at all - but probably to this guy.
I did not give this attention back then - I was thinking all the different things and I guess felt anxiety and could not process things rationally.
But it now all makes such a perfect sence.
Now I wish I knew how to act about it and reported them for perfume theft or something, if they really stole it.
Thank you for your story. Although it saddened me, and especially to read this how you fell for the same thing as literal children - I'm glad that now I can be 100% sure what exactly happened and not feel any, even if insignificant, doubts of "but maybe they really were honest?".
Are we just going to ignore the panda?
It is banned by the city. Panda will go away soon :)
Honza Hanák 😂 I was confused why there massive animals walking around. Bye bye panda then.
Midsommar reference?
jachymhr no it wasn’t, happy coincidence I guess.
Took a picture of my daughter in Prague and the panda was in the background. It's a great picture
The most disgusting thing with these scams is that they erode the trust towards another human being so bad that after some unpleasant experiences, you won't even hear out any fella who's coming to ask for help and eventually you won't even help people who are really in need. And this is the major crime in this story as this kind of self-protective paranoia would make the world a worse place day by day.
One time i was in london and i was waiting on a queue to buy a museum ticket and a guy came up to me saying he had a spare ticket because a friend of his didnt show up and that he wanted to sell it to me for 2/3 of the original price and i didnt really though of it at the moment and agreed. So i gave him the cash but the ticket was old and I couldn’t enter the museum so i notified the authorities but the did absolutely nothing even though there were surveillance cameras around and they also claimed that they’ve gotten many reports about this happening every day.
False homeless people are everywhere over where I live
Yep you’re totally homeless that’s why your backpack looks brand new and your jacket is worth more than mine.
Yup this is everywhere, it’s disy
Disgusting *
Spent years homeless due to bad luck and mental illness.
People would frequently give me nice clothes that they were planning to throw away, shoes, blankets and yes, backpacks.
It's easy to assume things about people on the street when you haven't faced it yourself, turns out 90% if the time you're dead wrong and just spouting tired old ideas drilled into your head by media from a young age.
If people were half as concerned about being a selfish, inconsiderate, judgemental robot as they were about being fooled the world might be a bearable place.
All the little worker bees who consider themselves respectable members of society... You're just enabling the rich to maintain their lifestyles at your expense.
The whole world revolves around people manipulating money out of each other.
It's only the people who are REALLY good at it, wear suits and can take you for thousands who we deem it acceptable for?
Your minds have been well and truly poisoned.
Our local homeless beat them up because they stop them getting help 👏👏
Why I never go to the city :D
I was actually in Prague about two months ago as part of my honeymoon trip. As my wife and I were coming out of the Mustek subway station, we actually saw a pair of guys with an albino Burmese python pulling that scam on a Korean tourist. We had walked by him, but since I live and work in Korea and he was struggling to get them to back off, I actually went back and confronted the scammers.
Thanks for the videos. Because of you guys, my wife and I had a wonderful time in Prague during our honeymoon!
Surprised the korean guy didnt think it was a fast food joint
I WAS IN PRAGUE FOR MY ANNIVERSARY IN JULY
Glad that you enjoyed prague
@@cluffy66 no, no, eat first, then i pay 20€, good price good price
“Tricking you into something” Like that panda. You believe it’s a huge panda, but in reality it’s a person behind it. 😞
inside 😅
Not true. Fake news.
panda asks for money too once the photo is taken..
Lol
Tourists looking to buy marijuana from locals in Honolulu, Oahu often end up with Pete Moss bound tightly in the shape of buds with very thin nylon string. They do the deal out in the open and act paranoid so you only get a glimpse and tuck it away quickly. Ignore their fake paranoia and make sure you know what you're buying.
Isn't there an old saying that marijuana lacks the delicate fragrance of peat moss?
or just don’t be a drug addict
@@rick4677 Okay, mom.
@@rick4677 marijuana isn't addictive and if people can afford vacations to Hawaii they probably are productive members of society
@@andrewthezeppo it is addictive. Not everyone will get addicted but many do.
Bar thing isn’t “impossible”. Just really really difficult. People don’t realize that it spins like you said. Not the most honest thing ever but no worse than most carnival games. As long as he’ll actually pay up if someone does it...
Good vid telling people what to look out for though. 👍
2 min hanging alone cant even be done by most people. Only climbers are fit enough for that so it doesnt really matter anyways
Two minutes is longer than the usual scam lol. Who thinks they can do that?!?
@@davidhofmayer1031 usually it’s 100 seconds for $100
Google / CZcams it. Plenty of vids of people doing it. All I said was it’s not “impossible”. I’m not saying it’s easy.
Yah, this one feels less like a scam and more like a carnival game. Looks easy, is actually only possible for professional mountain climbers.
The guy with the mercedes happen to me here in germany on the Autobahn!
Exact same method, he gave me a golden armband and a business card...
But i said i need to go to the ATM a few kilometers down the road because i had no money.
So what i really did my friend who drove with me called the Police and on the next restplace i pretend to go to the ATM but actually brought the Police right to him! Damn that felt so good :D
@Cersei Lannister indeed, the Police was very grateful^^
CryseTech damn, krass, dass es da passiert ist.
You may have outsmarted me but I outsmarted your outsmarting!
@@hans-le9xf ouh shit :o we have an outsmartingception over here!
Geschichten ausm Paulaner garten
In some parts of asia people throw gecko lizards to the “handicapped” beggars and suddenly theyre not handicap anymore 🤣
aisyah oh god 😂 I’d pay to see that. People who fake being disabled or sick are the scum of the earth 🙄
A miracle
catheseries I honestly don’t get why you’d do that? Instead of that you could just work a whole day and earn money in a fair way
Nathan Drake Exactly! Plus, they’d earn way more money than faking it and begging in the streets for money! Like, what’s the point?!
@@catheseries you're just wrong. You can make hundreds of dollars a day doing that in the right place.
Cruise ship: Passengers bet $ on the exact time the ship will travel "X" amount of miles in hopes to win the entire pot! Lots of people on the cruise. Lots of people bet. Over the PA system, the staff announces a fake name as the lucky winner and keep the $.
That’s so dirty
The spinning bar: The real issue is to avoid any action that ties up your hands. Your hands are your defense for your wallet (which is in your front pocket, right?). Whether it's a petition on a clipboard or a flower forced at you by a pretty girl, don't let anybody put something in your hands. While your hands are busy and your attention is distracted your wallet is walking away with that person's buddy.
I'm 4 steps ahead. I never step out of the house
Like the gypsy children in Brussels that place a newspaper over my bag, pretending it was something I needed to read. They didn’t fool us, because it was a crumpled paper and they were very scruffy and dirty.
1.1k people are dirty scammers that hate when their evil is exposed.
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That's a needlessly wordy way of saying Democrats
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@@screwgoogle4993 Lol
1.4K now
My scary scam story: I m a greek/UK citizen. I was outside a bar in downtown Lisbon with my brother 1months ago. Two young people approached me aggressively and were offering their usual fake cocaine and weed, I denied politely. Then they started having a conversation with me and asking where I'm from (probably to determine if I'm holding anything valuable on me, if one is from the UK he's bound to have a good phone etc.), and then all of a sudden pretended to punch me 3 times in the face, literally they threw their hands and stopped 1 inch from my face, started swearing heavily and calling me names trying to start an argument. I didn't fall for it and walked away even though they followed me I kept on going and they stopped eventually. I searched online after and read similar experiences in Lisbon. Apparently it's the same gang of 20-30 year olds that try and start an argument with you and in the havoc knock you out and steal you. Also, read that, the same group of people sometimes will try to befriend you, offer you a drink with a drug and steal from you after you're drugged on the ground. Watch out fellas! Never be alone and don't pay any attention to them don't even respond to their questions.
I'm sorry that happened to you, must've been scary. Unfortunately we all have to watch out in this world we're living in :(
Was there 4 years ago with my class and saw these guys at Praça do Comércio
. There one of the waiters tried to scam me. I paid for my 10 Euro food with a 50 Euro note. He came back and gave me a 5 Euro note. Fortunately i saw the scam and after a short argument, he came back with the rest of the money. Lissabon is full of scamers!
Did they look like gypshies?
@@pnduarte4696 yes!
@@kosmogun1180 makes sense.
We visited Prague in 2010, and it was great. Being from South Africa, we have pretty much mastered the art of spotting a scam, haha.
When I was in Auckland New Zealand there were people that would walk around with clipboards and registration forms saying that they were trying to raise money for a charity race coming up and if we wanted to fill out our name and make a donation. Since I was a tourist I didn’t know there was no actual race approaching. Luckily a local tipped me off to the scam.
Was scammed by a guy who took my golden ring after offering this dear and precious heritage in exchange for a little help with my car .Damn.
That must of been dear!
I swear I’ve heard of something like that before, stay safe
Oooof
I always scam the scammers;
For instance, scammer wanted to sell me a gold ring, but I knew it was only fools' gold. He wanted $400 for it, but I pretended I was a rich man and didn't have change for a $500 dollar bill.
I asked him for a hundred dollars in change, which he didn't have. In the end, I was able to get the ring, and talk him down to $250! (btw, I didn't actually have a $500 bill, that was just for show.)
I gave him $450, so he gave me the ring and two 50's for change. When I asked if he had change for one of the 50's, he gave me two 10's and five $1's, but he forgot to take the other 50. So, I decided to scam him again...
I said, "I'll give you this other 50, if you take your phony ring back." And he fell for it! I gave him my other 50 AND he took back the ring! I think he used it to scam someone else right afterwards.
I know, because after another conversation with him, the loose change he gave me was missing, and I somehow had the ring again in the morning...
@@bentonrp s t o n k s
Scam in my area, you handshake someone and they steal your liver
That happened to me yesterday. I hate it when it happens. This is the fifth time already
Schwerer Gustav they took my like 9 times already
Holly 😂
In my case the stole my 🥜. The left one is missing now. 😭 Only one half empty bag. (depends on how you look at the glass😂
What does "steal someone liver" mean? Explain to me, please.
A scam in Vienna. In Prater Park, at the fun fair, there are many arcade games and game stalls. Be careful at the stalls. The proprietors know all the tricks. One in particular is the pellet gun/shooting gallery. When you approach the guy in charge will say hey, it’s quiet, have a go. Almost as though he is giving you a free turn. When you start shooting, he will continuously keep passing you loaded rifles. It plays on machismo. Most guys want to show of to there partners or friends. Before you know it, you’ve shot 50 or 60 pellets. That’s when the guy points at a small sign saying “€1 per shot”. If you don’t pay, they get aggressive and most of the stall owners have each other’s backs.
"Why doesn't the city do anything"
Because it's eastern Europe. They don't care.
In eastern/southern Europe police gets bribed and in western countries police cannot take any action against criminals because police will be blamed not to respect human rights of criminals. So don't count on any help, be warned and watch out.
Well yes and no bc cops are bribed all over and don’t care no matter what country they’re in
The biggest scam in London is 100% fake homeless people! 😡
Tell that to London hacks
joel jaison LOL
@@joeljaison9601 he doesn't beg for money, or does he idk tbh
They’re everywhere
Romanian gangs
"It's impossible to hold on spinning bar for 2 minutes"
Well... As a climber I am personally insulted
For real. Plenty of videos on youtube showing people doing the bar. Usually climbers or people that work on grip strength.
The issue is the spinning bar... if it's fixed then it's not that difficult... holding the rope is easy because different angle... give it a try :)
@@rickloyd8208 the spinning bar game is a normal carnival/ festival/ expo/ etc. Attraction.
They all spin. People still do it but it's just like gambling. The house has the best chance of winning.
Doesn't mean it's impossible.
Well if you use mixed grip then the house is shit out of luck.
@@belkarbitterleaf5928 They will not let you use mixed grip or anything else clever. It's usually written in the rules on the machine.
In Kentucky we have an issue with credit card skimmers. They’ll put em at gas pumps and other inconspicuous places
2:44 I had that happen to me here in the United States. Small city in Minnesota. He told me that him and wife are from Dubai. They needed money to go back home. Crazy thing was that’s the exact ring too! My wife and I knew it was a scam. He told us that(when he was mad) “you no good people, you no good people!” That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard! They are just everywhere and have no soul. They always have to bring the kids so it makes it real experience. But don’t fall for it!
A scammer drove up to me with her kid, also. The kid was rolling her eyes about what her mom was doing, and the mom had a real smug attitude while reciting her lines.
The whole thing was all sketch. Luckily, I wasn't from there, and was just handling a car repair emergency. When I said so politely, she immediately turned from happy to mean and started blaming me for her kid's death eventually being on my hands.
She didn't even mention that she and her kid were in a life and death situation, and I didn't even turn them down yet, just told them the truth about what she interrupted me doing. Glad I didn't help her as she sped off.
Seems to always be a muslim from dubai, hhhmmmmm
Me: rob a bank
Police: Hey stop we will shoot!
Me: I’m collecting money for a charity
Police: heh, than it’s fine.
Oh, hey Robin Hood
Jeah, charity for poor people (him)
@@fimkollim4929 he is a god, he doesebt need money, BUT needs to feed the plebs who are farthing all over his house of god
Xd
420 likes, nice
Something that happens in my country, India... It happens in the cities, an old person(scammer) with maybe a walking stick will be walking next to a tourist. They'll try and get close to the tourist. Then they'll push against them and pretend to have a great big fall. A very dramatic fall. The person pretends to have been hurt badly and will tell the tourist they were the reason and that they pushed her/him. Then ask for money for treatment screaming and howling in pain. Tourists usually get scared and give a lot of money.
Thankyou for being honest.
I remember a scam where two cars go through a drive thru and pay for a small meal with a large note with a particular marking they put on it, then their friend comes through after you and pays with a small note saying they gave the wrong change. They tell them about the marking on the large note they gave them so they get the change that the first person got as well.
The bar one isn’t a scam, it’s quite obvious it’s just hard. It’s just like the one where they truly to get you to pick up a gold bar through a small hole.
No they rig the bar to spin when you hold onto it but when demonstrating themselves doing it they adjust the bar to not spin
Therefore it is a scam
Also you can do a counter grip making your hands face 2 different ways so that while one hand is spinnin the bar one way the other is spinning the other way and it never actually spons
@@kolbymeyer27 i've heard this solution mentioned before and I have heard tell of some of the people running the challenge tell you that grip isn't allowed
@@ZedExGaming it doesn’t matter, it’s an obvious and simple trick, not a scam.
@@ZedExGaming If that's your argument then all of carnivals are scams.
It's not a fair game but I mean if you had extremely flexible wrists and an overtly string grip you probably could while a normal person couldn't.
The marketing is what's scummy instead of the act itself
Here in America there’s a scam that goes on everywhere, it’s called insurance.
So u aint so anti-socialistic anymore up there ? ;)nice to hear that i mean you dont have to be socialist or even a capitalist, just particularry health insturance is a thing that is worht, i just broke my leg and nose in past year got fixed up easy without wirries even happy that i dont have to go to school :D one last word : taxes
@@MrMajsterixx no he means these insurance companies pretend to help or want to help. But actually want to give you the least amount of money owed to you. That's why alot of people get lawyers who may also be thief's lol
Physics Only thumbs up !!!
Physics Only hahahahahahahahahahaha
In Turkey its called breathing
Toronto, Canada. - Art dealer on the street selling “hand drawn” pictures - ends up photo copies of popular pictures
Same in Paris
I’m from Toronto as well but I never heard anything about it
Summers normally - you’ll walk around downtown young street... they normally “set shop” by college station to Eatons... they’ll have a lot of handrawn photos on the ground. People buy them cause they look hand drawn. When u come home to remove it from the crappy poster board frame you’ll realize it’s a photo copy... they’ll ask for a high price then lower it to make you feel you’re getting a good deal.
Afghan Lion sag word. I may have to check this out then
F C yonge and dundas?
The scam in the united states is..
"The government"
Biggest scam I know of.
#SHOVLINSAIDSO greed from people in the government. Not all government officials are bad but there is more bad than good. If you have money and a high name you can get always with anything. Including companies, welfare, mafia etc it’s everywhere and we can’t stop it. It’s so sad because so many people get fucked up from them and they might not even know it. Just like CZcams fucking over everyone and Facebook and Instagram.
ok
"Why don't you write in the comments, a scam that happens in your town"
Me, who live in India: Well, where do I begin?
In my home town of Aveiro, Portugal:
#1: Fake charities
#2: Fake handicapped people
#3: Euronet ATMs
#4: gypsies selling knock-off products
When I wanted use euronet ATM in Lisbon it didn't want give me any money, I have no idea why. I used some ATM of some your bank and it was without problem.
Aveiro normally isnt like that... Been there sometimes well the atms yeah fake charities?? Fake handicapped people never saw. And selling those things everywhere
@@hellokidsbully You can see them on Av. Dr. Lourenço Peixinho sometimes... And in the Rua Direita.
It depends, but it is something you see enough if you live here.
Arent u all gypsies lmao
Euronet is okay. Just decline their scam rate and take the local one. Afaik, they don’t charge fees.
Rome, they’ll give u a rose and demand money, told em no n threw the rose on the ground
Alessandro Jomli, haha! Laughed so hard! 😂
Same to me at the eifel tower an indian gave me a rose then he got angry 😂
Vienna every year around Christmas,
Indeed. They were so annoying last time I was in Rome!
It's not in Romeits in every restaurant in the world 2
I was at 7-11 today getting gas & the same exact thing Happened to me. 2:43 A rich looking guy with a suit, pulls up with a nice SUV & a gold ring. Begging for gas money. Told him I was broke & he left lmaooo
Yea in my town they scam me alot it starts with a girl telling me she loves me
When I was in Prague I got scammed by the overpriced food thing when they weigh your food and give you ridiculous prices. I feel so bad about that because I weren't watching your videos yet.
Prague is fantastic for all you can eat restaurants
This is what I don't get. If you order 100 gram portions and they give you something like half a kilo, never feel obligated to pay for it.
Nobody can force you to buy something you don't want to. Return it and if they get angry, tell them to shove it where sun doesn't shine.
Same here, just posted my experience here as well. It is the Prague ham. I paired it with the potato and cabbage salad i think with the hot wine. Expensive though.
I tried to buy roasted pig at the Xmas market on the old town square and the guy put like 800 crowns worth of meat on the plate. He got pissy at me when I told him I didn't want that much. So I told him to keep it and walked off.
@@puzzlingcentaur exactly! If you're given a big portion just say you want a smaller portion!
one guy came up to me and said look behind you, when I turned back he punshed me in the face and stole my backpack. Was a pretty cool scam must admit.
Maximilian why would you actually look behind you
u should wear the backpacks with the clip thing
In my country the government says they need money from your paycheck to pay for things like roads, education and defense but then they give it away to other countries and just print more of it. That means the money they give to other countries has less value and they have to print MORE to give to then the following year.
Good old USA
That is generally people who have a Donkey on their election signs. They love to give my hard earned money to other countries, that they think needs it more than me.
@@Ron-ds2ob are you fine with your country’s military budget? Because that‘s spent on exactly the same thing most of the time, but it actually makes up a portion of tax money that‘s statistically relevant enough to be worth feeling duped about
The “cell phone swat” is common in SF. The victim is walking and using a cell phone. One thief swats the phone out of their hand, a second thief walks between the victim and their phone while a third thief grabs it and runs, quickly handing it off to a fourth thief who takes it to a fence to be wiped, unlocked, and resold. By the time the victim realizes what’s happened, the thieves have all ran off in different directions.
That's pretty smart, especially the actions of the second thief. He might seem innocent
I never understood cellphone stealing you’d think you could just use find my iPhone and bust their asses at I missing something
@@Ermagawd The phone is immediately powered off cold or dropped into an RF blocking pouch. The SIM card is then removed. Completely untraceable. The only option left would be for the phone companies to track and lock down phone serial numbers.
@@robertschulke1596 where can u find the serial number on a phone? Couldn't someone print over it (like print a fake serial number over it)
@@JackTheOrangePumpkin it’s permanently burned into the ROM. On an iPhone, click Settings/General/About.
A typical scam in big city’s is that they pretend to spill a drink or something on you and then they offers help. You put down the bag that you have and they starts to help you, theeeen someone comes from behind and take ur bag
I could see that working like 3 times in Texas (statistically by the third time your leg will have bullet holes, and that’s only because the first two just didn’t feel like wasting lead...). When crime goes unpublished, it goes rampant and they do it again (just like never ever punishing bad children, or actually I guess in this case rewarding their bad behavior because they got something of value). Unfortunately the police in the US are basically useless for stole property unless it’s a car (it can be a $5000 race bicycle but they won’t even bother looking for it, but they will hunt down ever $500 piece of trash car theft, hence bicycle theft runs rampant in college campuses until a student has to beat the crap out of a thief caught in the act of stealing their bike and then the student gets in way more trouble and the thief set lose to just steal another one. Sadly that’s the case, but in the case of bullets the thief may not get away... Just stupid that our system wants that, protecting the criminals)
Scammer: *sets up a business*
Honest Guide: "I'm about to end this man's whole career."
Oh wow... another one of those. hurray... Your creativity trophy is being sent to you as I'm writing this comment. Later on theres gonna be an interview and a ted talk.
"but hes not a rapper.."
@@martingrenar4752 wow
Yeah, not really.
Where I live scammers often come to your door and try to get you to welcome them into your house. Sometimes you don't even know that you are welcoming them into your house.
That’s one thing I never liked about Santa Cruz
That’s why America has guns. “Oh u tryna scam me,(draws 9mm beretta) have a good day😁.”
You live in walachia with vampires or something?
@@thrym3763 Maybe
I am in the Ocala National Forest in Florida USA.
We have warm weather most of the year so Ne'er-do-wells come here to live in the warm and fleece tourists.
[a Ne'er-do-well is a person that, no matter what, will Never Do Well, they will always be shifty and lazy and not able to make a good living]
They make their cardboard sign and say they will work for food or money. However, when someone offers them a job they always have an excuse for why they can't work. If they are watched secretly they usually have an RV or a nice car to leave in.
Aunt B
Closed for lunch scam:
You arrive at some tourist site, but by accident you arrived from wrong side of building/complex. No people there, no opened gate. Suddenly taxi driver (or similar person offering transport) approaches you and tells you that it's closed for lunch. And offers you to ride you to different place. Possibly overcharging you and pushing you to some tourist shops.
Common around Asia.
František Bína Really? After living in Asia for 2 years I never came across this, interesting.
In my school children make 10$-20$ a day just going around and asking the everyone for 1$, some people give them some don't.
I use to dl that but for 2.50$ for a bottle of pepsi or 5$ for a smoothy lol
"Hey do you have a dollar?"
"Gasp! How much money do ya make doing this? Can I see?? I just wanna count it..."
@@bentonrp You can make a lot of money especially if you're a kid
@@johnree6106 Oh, that's my response to them every time they asked me for a dollar. I would just pretend to bug them for Their money. :}
@@bentonrp 🤣 does it work. Myself I really don't give money but have given money on Christmas to a homeless person or at least they said they were hell his sign it's Christmas and I need a beer.
The hanging bar is possible, just requires a lot of strength
Is it not allowed to have one hand on each side? That counters the rotation of the bar then its a lot easier
Either athletic or don't weigh much, seen a kid do it with ease
Iam climbing for almost 3 years now and I think I could actually go for at least 1:40 but 2 min is hard
Wow you did it you save hole world
The spinning bar can be done, but generally only by climbers. Magnus Midtbo has a video where he and another climber do it.
... and a Czech word in the end.
PODVOD [pɔdvɔt], which means SCAM.
SCAM - PODVOD
That would be the only czech word I can internalize.
Whenever we see a scam just say Podvod or if ya trying to help a fellow tourist say it in english or the tourists mother tongue if you know it.
LOL
Někteří scammeři jsou totální špinavci
Plot twist: the ring guy was actually legit
5000 Koruna profit then.
Ya a legit gypsy
Ya boi sure he’s just a stupid scammer . Piece of pie 🥧 😛😛😛
I gave him 100,000 Belarus rubles (expired)
Legit? Dubai gold traders would never need hadouts
My favorite game is the the three card shuffle... the interesting part is the is the number of way they have to make you part with your money. First it not just the one guy moving the cards, it actually a team of 7-10 people. 2 on either side of the street, they are watching for cops. and a bunch of people playing (they rotate so you don't remember them) the game. some are winners others are looser, some will even show you the tricks to boost your confidence. But their most important role role is to distrait "YOU" so the guy moving the cards can do a switcheroo. I watched for 30 minutes, never lost once till I took out my money and tried for real. I even knew they were going to distract me. But I still lost ... a fool and his money lol...
Yup. This totally happened to me in Paris. Mine was a ball under cups. Got confident seeing others lose $$ when I was guessing the right cup, but when I took out my $$ for real, got switched up. Later realized that probably everyone in that group was part of it. Live and learn.
See this very often in London. The fun is to spot the undercover police watching them.
Happened to me in Graz, Austria. There was a guy there who said he's collecting signatures from people all over the world, for the guiness book of world records. After we signed he asked us for spare change to help fund him (for pens and such). It wasn't much, we gave him 1 euros each( in a group of 4 people). It's not much, but if you think about it if he can get 100 people (in a busy area) to pay 1 euro per day that's almost 30k per month - Some people gave him more (2-5...etc). A year later I saw someone posting a picture with the same guy, still going with the world record story.
I got scammed in Prague by the “deaf” people pretending to collect money for the UN
You should watch this video, Honest guide managed to cure them :D :D :D :D
czcams.com/video/5NzIm0JxjOM/video.html
why would deaf people collect money for the UN? doesn't the UN fund programs for deaf people?
I saw a similar scam in Hungary during a train journey.
Somebody, who pretended him to be deaf, put a pen and a "price list" on the tables. (On the paper it was written that he's deaf, and you'd donate him if you bought the pen (which was overpriced, he asked about 400-500 HUF for it).
I ignored him, he took the pen and the paper back because I didn't want to buy this overpriced pen.
While he was walking around the train, his phone started ringing.😃 It proofed that he just wanted to scam the passengers.
Also, if he needed money, he shouldn't have bought a train ticket.
If you want to help disabled people, you should rather donate to reliable charity organizations.
The way the astroturf mends with the sand is absolutely amazing!!!
AH THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF SCAMMING WITHOUT DISTANCING
What I've learnt from *Honest Guide* is that "Everyone is awful these days"
“What did we get out of this story?” “Well a free golden ring!😃”
Which is fake BTW:))
@@migiola Thank you, yes. Criminals are cheap. Best way to send one who approaches you with an elaborate scheme running fast is to put on a greedy face and say, 'got any money for me?'
How does that work, I wonder. Ring is probably only worth a dollar. So the scammer pays the person who made it a dollar? My question is who has the time to make a ring that will only sell for a dollar? Or does the scammer make them himself? Or does the scammer actually get scammed himself knowingly paying maybe $25 for a ring and just hopes to recoup and even profit off of his scam? How does this hustle even work.
@@artvandelay1099 lol. There are plenty of manufactured fake golden rings from China, etc.
@@bentonrp I guess I underestimate cheap Chinese labor. Gotta be machine made. Probably have a machine that can churn out hundreds if not thousands. I suppose if the Chinese can make screws that cost pennies a piece, and still make a profit off of those, then they can make costume jewelry rings that cost pennies a piece and still make a profit off of those.
I seen people do the taking pictures one in Las Vegas and ask for $20 for the picture. I was glad me and my bf looked too childish for them ignore us and went after the small group next to us for pictures
Yup welcome to sin city lmfao
Here in England there’s lots of big scams by a organisation that go by the name of the Government
Scam happening in Italy few years ago: while you drive your car relatively slow, you hear something hitting your car. If you are in the city centre, you will find someone pretending you injured him/her, if you are outside of the city, you will find some car following you with a broken glass saying you broke it. In both case, they want cash money immediately to repair the damage. Way to solve it: say "let's call the police and let them fix it". They will fly away.
Spoiler alert: the stuff that hit your car was some stone threw by them.
Seen this happening in a completely non-touristy small town in Croatia as well. Some guys will deliberately try to get someone to hit them, like hitting the breaks where no one in the right mind would the breaks because it's hard to stop. Or trying to get very close (but in front of you) and then hitting the brakes. Sometimes it works. Most often the driver is paying attention but they do not manage to completely avoid contact. And then the driver (who drives old junk with old damage) will claim that you damaged his carr and demand direct compensation so he doesn't call the police. In rare cases, the scam goes even further and he will take you to his repairman friend (who is part of the scam) . My sister almost fell for this scam but when repairmen claimed some insane amount of money is needed to repair the old junk car, she recognised the scam and called the police. She barely touched his car and the policemen started laughing when they inspected the car. I also heard of others falling victim to this scam.
@@puzzlingcentaur Znas mozda di je to bilo? :D
@@mandarina1367 Bjelovar....više velika selendra nego mali grad, nema turista, samo radnika iz drugih gradova i ljudi koji usput stanu da prenoće. .ali opet ima prevara.
I bet the scammer had a Southern accent.. or you were in the South
@@mrsnezbit2219 not even close.
Bro wtf with the bird that thing was painted,that's cruel
What is a ssird?
It says Bird
@@legolas2899 ß=SS, not b
TheGhost I don't think that man used natural paint that won't intoxicate and eventually kill the bird
TheGhost a offer you a respectful sorry,you are correct,I still think that the bird would get fairly stressed from getting dyed but your right
and if my spelling is bad I'm
from Latin America so sorry.
I was at a Compton Train station once and a black dude said “I’ll trade you this $50 for a $20” I said “nah man I’m good” he said “how about ten?” Me “😐”
Lmao what.
My guess his money was fake. Or he wanted to see how much money was in your wallet to rob you
I’m glad you do these especially when you live there stopping us tourist getting scammed
It's a shame that in every cities scammers can do what they want in the street, without the fear of police.
Not in Dubai
Cause the police are in on it.
A common one is someone approaches you:
"I just need £4 for a hostel room"
"I just need £1.70 for bus fair"
"I just need a couple of pounds for some chips" - here I infact went "even better you can have this sandwich I just bought" they didn't want that, only some money...
This is what my wife does. When somebody asks for money, because they missed their bus, their friends left them there etc, she just walks with them to the nearest Vietnamese shop and buys them food. The looks on their faces - priceless.
That's not a scam though,that's just someone begging for money...
When I was on a school trip to London, me and my friends met two indian guys that wanted "just" two pounds for their poor family, when I searched for the money (because I am naive) he started to talk about the five pounds in my wallet and he wanted to take them so I took it back and said something like: I am sorry... and walked away. Just saying because it's kinda interresting what kinds of people you can meet.
2:30 OMG! I almost fell for this in Miami… so it’s not just in Prague. Be careful out there!
I fell for the collateral for gas money when i was a kid working at a convenience store. I got a jacket for $20 CAD. lol
Me too - I was a gas station attendant (35 years ago)
Here in Belgrade exists a scam that is really really wrong...People would come into trams and buses and claim that they are policemen trying to raise money for a kid with an illness...They would carry a picture of an ill kid and shout that they are from police and raising money...Also there is an woman that would crouch in a weird position and dress as a homeless person and walk barefeet weirdly through buses and trams trying to get some money...she would yell God bless you give me some money so i wouldn't go barefeet and wouldn't starve to death...if you ignore her she would sit on the bus floor in front of you and start to sing and if you move away from her she would follow you and rub off of you..we have seen her with nike air max 90's and good clothes in shopping malls
Here in Texas, there was a group of people dressing like firemen, and standing at intersections with buckets asking for donations to help children in hospitals that had been in fires.
That lady in belgrade is very real I saw her in bus every week
@@seananon4893 Yeah that is really an unorthodox way of earning money for living...
@@nikola-petojevic7294 Ma cesto je vidjam...ima i likova koji saviju nogu nekako cudno pa glume da su invalidi...znam da glume jer su mi ljudi pricali da su ih videli da odvijaju to i otkrivaju nogu i normalno hodaju...
@@aleksamladenovic9271 ima neki rom na zemunskom keju sa stakom.sedim u kaficu I dam mu 50 dinara on se okrene uzme staku I hoda normalno
Another great video, it’s amazing how your trying to help so many. Keep up the great work. Can’t wait for the next mini-series. The main scam in my town is people who pretend to be homeless but have been seen getting into Mercedes on a daily basis refusing food and asking for money instead and having a home. Glad there’s not as many scams like some that happen in Prague.
Whilst travelling solo in Thailand. An english speaking bloke in a irish bar in Bankok, tried to tell me that I couldn't buy a train ticket for the sleeper train to go north for that day. He then told me that as he lived there, he had 'connections' and for the price of the train ticket and 'something for his trouble ', he would organise a train ticket for me. I ignored him and went out to find a taxi to go to the station. An elderly Thai lady helped me haggle with taxi, (as they all wanted 4 times what the hostel had told me it should cost), I got to the station and queued up to buy a ticket. As I had to show my passport and the ticket was in my name, not just any ticket, I am not sure how the scam in the bar works. He may have asked for my passport to get the ticket, but I suspect that I may have lost money and my passport in one stupid moment. I also had to avoid a very pushy tuk-tuk 'organiser' who was on a busy junction, he was polite, but persistent, and was determined to get me into a tuk-tuk for what was a very, very cheap fare. I had been warned, so didn't go and find myself stranded in a gem or gold shop with a tuk-tuk driver demanding a lot of cash to take me away. There is another scam in Egypt, with the immigration visa. As you arrive in the airport there is an official booth selling them (in an out-of-the-way corner), but there are men hustling you towards the turnstiles, where there are men selling visas, at twice the price. After the turnstiles, there are airport police checking that you have a visa. They can see the scam going on, but ignore it. Egypt is full of beggars, usually children, who say things to make you feel sorry for them. Men hang around tourist spots pointing out good things to take a photo of, then demand money. I think you just need to keep your wits about you and do some research on the place you are going to visit before you go and familiarize yourself on local scams, like the tuk-tuks.
Here's a wild thought.
You could break the programming and realise these are people trying to get by.
You could even realise how much more you have than them and spare them the price of a beer, what's one less next time you're out?
@@loveitretrobevvo3270 They could earn an honest living. I have no problem with that, it's people trying to run scams....make money by doing nothing...that I have an issue with. And BTW, I'm not rich travelling, I work hard for what I have and I have to budget.
@@loveitretrobevvo3270 And what about the guys trying to get along in India who put dog sh!t on your shoes and charge you alot to clean it off? Still think it's someone 'just trying to get by'??
@@cr3237 Yes, they are trying to get by. Imagine how bad life has to be that the best way you can find to support yourself is to clean shit off people's shoes legitimately, never mind put it there yourself.
And you don't have to be rich to have a lot more than homeless people. You don't realise this?
You don't have to be rich to have a lot more than the average Indian citizen either. Or did you not notice the poverty?
They aren't trying to get money for doing nothing, it's their only option in a lot of cases.
(An additional note is that there are many people who worked hard for what they had. Until a hurricane, an illness, A PANDEMIC, took it all away.)
@@cr3237
I'm a scammer myself.
Not because it's my nature, or I want loads of money, but because it's the only way I can currently consistently get by.
I have an extensive work history. At the age of 11 I was doing three paper rounds on the way to school. I like being employed for a multitude of other reasons than the paycheck.
I'm currently stranded in a foreign country with nowhere to stay and no longer have a passport or bank account.
When I realised that there was almost zero percent chance of finding work in these circumstances I started to beg.
I quickly realised that just sitting with my hat out, or having an honest sign explaining my situation, was not viable because too many people think like the people here and completely ignore you. Or berate you.
Often sitting for 12 hours straight barely covered a meal.
Most of the time it would, but in said situation most of the time isn't good enough, I've gotta eat.
Fortunately I do have a brain in my head and quickly figured out a way to pull up to 300 a day, if I really put the effort in. (It's not as invasive as a lot mentioned and actually relies on people choosing to interact with me, but still a scam.)
So I should be loaded right? Wrong!
I go out for a day, make as much as I can, then don't do it again until I run out of money. I live as thriftily as possible and stretch everything I have as much as I can. That's getting by.
It's very easy to assume that the majority of homeless people choose to live that way, or that they will just spend anything you give them on drugs or alcohol.
It's easy because it justifies not helping. (I know because, like most people, my brain had been trained to react like that. I used to think the exact same way. I used to stroll round cities, wearing my suit, ignoring homeless people.)
But what if you were wrong? Because you are.
The homeless have no reason to lie to each other about how they ended up where they are, nothing to gain. And I can tell you first hand, you'd be surprised how many are straight-headed hard working people who got thrown one bad hand after another.
Or sometimes just one. A tonne of people living paycheck to paycheck are only one unfortunate incident away from living on the streets.
If someone is trying to scam you, it's because crime isn't an option for them. You think that's out of fear of being arrested? Or for society's sake? No.
It's because they have better morals than that, which often means they aren't happy about what they're doing but refuse to behave like an actual criminal.
My last point is that most people who scam you wear suits and take a significant amount of your income.
They already have more than you and will still take you for everything you've got given the slightest opportunity.
But let's not worry about them.
Let's chastise Dave who just woke up on a bench and just really wants a coffee and a pastry cos he feels like he's about to collapse.
Don't know about you. But if I gave money to ten beggars over a year and found out 9 of them were scammers who didn't need it, because there are some of course, I'd be a bit annoyed. But overall I still helped someone who needed it and probably won't miss the total of ten handfuls of change over a year. So I'd try to focus on that instead.
You are doing important work. You educate people about scammers. Take care of yourself!
the 13 dislikes are from the scam artists :P
In The Netherlands they have this thing called Heineken, and they advertise it as beer. While it is actually sewage water.
You sir and you’re people, are internet superheroes and i love it
When I was in Prague, the restaurant charged us music fee, air conditioning fee and other addition fees on the food bill. But we were sitting outside on a summer day. It was obviously to overcharge tourists that can’t speak the language.