Top 5 tourist scams

• Clivebenss

  28 May 10, 20:24

  Tourists, beware!

  1. Fool's Gold: France

  If you're walking the streets of Paris and someone appears to have found a gold ring at your feet, congratulate them and keep on walking. The ring is a plant and the person who pretends to have found it will use just about any sob story to get you to buy it off them.

  2. Monkey Business: Bali, Indonesia

  Proving that thieves don't always come in human form, the monkeys at Bali's Uluwatu Temple are notorious for swiping from tourists everything from sunglasses to cameras and then running off into nearby bushes. Seconds later, their conniving trainer, dressed as a temple official, appears to report that if given a few rupiah to buy bananas, he can coerce the monkeys into giving back the booty.

  3. Automatic Theft Machine: Trinidad and Tobago

  Using X-Ray film, thieves in Trinidad construct a pocket that slips into the card slot of an ATM, holding it hostage. A helpful, and observant, bystander then miraculously appears to suggest that typing in a PIN backwards will release the card.

  Unfortunately, when the bystander later retrieves the pocket, the victim's money will be released as well.

  4. Postcards From the Edge: Italy

  Kids outside the Stazione Termini have been known to thrust pen and postcard into the hands of tourists and ask for help writing a letter 'home.' They then dictate a story of poverty and hunger so disturbing that said tourist is often guilted into handing over some cash.

  5. At Your Service: United States

  The bottom line with this scam is that room service charges should always go on the credit card the hotel already has on file. If the waiter or waitress who delivers your food demands cash or a card, the egg on your plate is soon going to end up on your face.

  -- REUTERS

• lianamaster

  28 May 10, 23:40

  Point noted with thanks.

• TTFU

  28 May 10, 23:42

  I want top 5 based on singapore

• Clivebenss

  29 May 10, 01:53

  Originally posted by TTFU:

  I want top 5 based on singapore

  Hmm... never been as a foreigner in Sg but soon.

  

• BanguIzai

  29 May 10, 08:05

  thanks

• βέτά

  29 May 10, 08:13

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  Hmm... never been as a foreigner in Sg but soon.

  

   

  Where you migrating to?

   

  Can wait till after GE?

   

   

• Clivebenss

  29 May 10, 18:27

  Originally posted by βέτά:

   

  Where you migrating to?

   

  Can wait till after GE?

   

   

  If enuf foreigners here I don't need to migrate to feel like a foreigner in this country.

  

• Bigi

  15 Jun 10, 16:38

  noted..