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Sketchy Schemes Travelers Should Avoid

You are walking down a street in Mexico and are stopped by a police officer. He asks to check your wallet for counterfeit bills or "drug money", so you calmly oblige. After he finishes flipping through your cash, he returns your wallet, and goes on his way. A simple stop in an effort to control the drug trade right? Wrong. You later find that you have “misplaced”$45.00.

Bogus cops and other scams are waiting for unaware tourists in every corner of the globe, and I think it is important to recognize these situations before they happen to you. I stumbled upon an article that covers scams ranging from common taxi and restaurant scams to fake ATM machines and bogus cops.
I just thought I’d add a little something semi-positive and informational to the blog. Hope this comes in handy for you one day. We could all use a heads up in a global-traveling world.

To defend yourself against scams like that one read up here.

posted by Anonymous @ 9/19/2006 07:44:00 PM