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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    About $25.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Zero

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Extorted out of $500 CAD. Never ever ever ever talk to strangers offering you some sort of deal. Dudes don't just straight walk up to other random dudes without ulterior motives.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      $50 when I was tired as frick and didn’t have the energy to haggle for obviously overpriced tea in Istanbul

      About $25.

      You guys are b***hes.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah I felt like a real b***h afterwards. It is what it is. Won't happen again though.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >calling people b***hes on a Mongolian basket-weaving forum

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You're right man. I should have gotten in a yelling match as a foreigner over being scammed $25.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      [...]
      I posted it in the SEA general but briefly
      >Prossie offers massage full service for 1k + room
      >Get to the room, fricking 5 other girls show up out of the blue
      >While I'm showering or whatever they snatch my phone
      >Sex happens yadda yadda, NGL 5 girls was kinda sweet
      >20k peso otherwise I lose my phone and they go to the police, 5 filipimas can make up whatever story they want, have me literally by the balls
      >Paid up, got my phone, crisis averted, but I learned my lesson

      I mean $386 American for 5 women is hardly a scam

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That works out to $77.20 per woman, which is very expensive by Filipino standards.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's impossible to get scammed if you have some brain cells left from your mtf transition.
    The easiest way to get scammed is when you buy something for more than what's worth. In that case, you must opt for not buying anything or learn how to haggle. This only happens in developing countries so you can also opt to not visit them

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      In some cases people in developing countries overcharge you for goods and services as a tourist. But it's still less than what you pay at home for the same thing about, so you're happy and so are they.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They're fricking dirt poor selling souvenirs. Don't be so cheap, they have families to feed. Then again don't pay an exorbitant amount like 700 peso for a keychain.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I'm talking about the ones who charge exorbitant prices for plastic souvenirs. If you are a skilled artisan who crafts nice products related to your culture then I don't mind paying well.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Stfu they are scammers they deserve a bullet not sympathy. Pick another profession besides peddling overpriced trinkets.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Travel IS the scam

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I've been overcharged and had money stolen. Not sure about actual classic tourist scams.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    I posted it in the SEA general but briefly
    >Prossie offers massage full service for 1k + room
    >Get to the room, fricking 5 other girls show up out of the blue
    >While I'm showering or whatever they snatch my phone
    >Sex happens yadda yadda, NGL 5 girls was kinda sweet
    >20k peso otherwise I lose my phone and they go to the police, 5 filipimas can make up whatever story they want, have me literally by the balls
    >Paid up, got my phone, crisis averted, but I learned my lesson

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What country.l

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        He mentions SEA and pesos in the same post, so it's clearly the Philippines.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      How much do you weigh?

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    $50 when I was tired as frick and didn’t have the energy to haggle for obviously overpriced tea in Istanbul

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    $200 CAD

    I left my wallet behind when following a massage lady to another, more private massage booth. I was too concerned about my gf being in the booth next to me to think about possible repercussions. They charged my credit card around 5k Baht. No idea how my gf didn't notice any rummaging beside her the entire time. Oh well

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Your gf didn’t care.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I always refuse their basket and keep my clothes under my head as a pillow. This has led to some standoffs in cheap SEA rub-and-tugs because they clearly wanted to rifle my pockets. I just smile and say no. Later, the massage girl usually says "you live here long time huh?"

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >you live here long time huh?
        So audaciously cheeky. She needs a rough fricking

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Your girlfriend was getting fingered by the massage lady

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Around 50 cent when a barista in berlin helped herself to a tip from my change and I didn't care/was too beta to point it out.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I've been scammed of my joy for the rest of that day after meeting Black person scammers in Rome, trying to get money from me for a wooden elephant figure he put in my hand in front of the Pantheon or whatever.

    There was 0 chance i would give him money, i never trade with these people, wether they are in the street or own a store.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Same thing happened to me in Florence. I was looking at some architecture and took completely by surprise when this Nig put some bracelets on my hand. Gave him €10 but the act of getting me unawares annoyed me

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You should just be able to punch them in the face. It's rather obvious that the police do nothing about their activities, so logically it would follow that they aren't going to protect them, either.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        This happened to me in Portugal. I was politely adamant that I wouldn't pay and eventually he just said "keep it as a gift" and I did. I still have it and didn't pay a penny.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Just give it back to him or walk away if he doesnt take it back.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    American is a system of gates designed to tax you at every step, so you can say I've been getting ass fricked by bridge trolls my entire life.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    About three dollars after exiting Bangkok's airport, and buying a rice ball that should have been a dollar.
    I couldn't math properly and it was honestly worth the cost after being refused from nearly every other restaurant because they thought 6am was too early to serve a foreigner.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    One time I got extorted at a SEA brothel after receiving services. After paying an insignificant sum in cash to the girl I coomed in, the girl left quickly and a couple goons came into the room looking mean. I tried to leave but they had a heavy blocking the door who shoved me back. Then their "boss" leader came in, sent the goons out, and had a one on one talk with me saying I need to buy a very expensive (like a thousand dollars) VIP membership to their 'club' for using their services. The thing is, they said they would accept payment in Visa, so I feigned my displeasure and happily went through with the transaction. Then all the goons suddenly became friendly and deferential to me after the bossman confirmed the payment thru their point of sale terminal. They started calling me Sir and the Heavy came up and apologized to me for shoving me during the "misunderstanding" and offered me a cold beer. They gave me a cheap plastic "VIP card" and asked me if I wanted another girl. I told them I wanted to leave cause it was quite late, so one of the lower level goons called a taxi for me and personally escorted me to the taxi, and gave me the equivalent of a $20 bill out of his own wallet so I could get back to my place and pay the cabby. I guess they all thought that they just landed a big payday...

    The cab ride only cost a few bucks, and when I got back to my hotel, I called my CC merchant Bank and told them I had recent charges as a result of extortion and kidnapping against my will, and they suspended the card and cancelled the charges. Technically I made some money.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >I got extorted at a SEA brothel after receiving services.
      Just admit you fell for the Russian brothel scam any monger with some sense avoids those.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I often hear stories like this but how the frick does that work? Can I just pay for something in a club in a foreign company and then have visa give me back the money? How would they reliably check if your story is true?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You could probably do it once and get away with it. But if it actually happens to you at a later date you could get fricked since they will assume you are an insurance fraudster

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Why would you ever tolerate this? I study BJJ and would use some basic grappling holds, plus any environmental weapons if available, to quickly subdue all the threats in the room and then leave.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        i seriously hope you never actually end up in this situation and attempt this

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    $10. A younger, more naïve me visited a friend in NYC. Some black dude started pitching his mixtape (really just a CD) and even threw down a few stanzas for me. I was moderately impressed, so I bought the CD off of him. Lo and behold, it was an empty CD, not a single piece of media recorded to it lol

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You're based for trying to support an artist. He's based for taking advantage of a chump like you

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Please do not support street vendors in the United States, that’s not our culture, thank you.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    $0. I always pretend I don't speak English.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I once paid 1000 Indian rupees for a tuktuk ride that should've been maybe 200 rupees at most. That kind of money isn't enough to financially ruin me, but it did out me as a clueless tourist.

    Another time, I paid 500 Sri Lankan rupees for some food that should've been 50.

    In terms of dollars, I didn't lose much, but in terms of percentage, they made off like a bandit.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Tuk tuks cost 100 max. Above that you go on a cab

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    $0. I don't visit shitty 3rd world countries or travel to frick dumb prostitutes. If youre a normal human, you won't ever be scammed.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Good for you man. Want a gold star?

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Zero, I dont spend money on shit that isn't food, transport, housing, alcohol and entry fees while abroad. If I do buy something like clothes, its at an actual branded shop, not some random shit on the side of the road and definitely not a place with someone outside trying to get me to go in.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nothing happened to me, but a few stories were shared with me.

    >friend went to Mexico
    >got a platinum necklace for $80
    >the necklace started turning green after wearing it for a few hours

    >college professor went to Hong Kong in the 80s
    >was visiting a camera store
    >American tourist asks the shop owner how much a certain camera lens is
    >"it's $400"
    >murrican hands him $400
    >he gave four hundred US dollars, not Hong Kong dollars
    >shop owner chased everybody out of the store after the American tourist left, tells everyone the store is closed
    >locks the door, draws the curtains, and turns off the lights

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I got some withdrawals from my credit card ($200 more or less) coming from a SEA country a month after my trip to Japan, so I think someone cloned my credit card. Or maybe it was a coincidence. Either way, I told my bank about it and they paid my money back, so nothing serious. I'll be more careful next time

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I slummed it in Dubai and visited some african hookers in a certain part of town. They bring you up off the street into these extremely sketchy little rooms with beds that have curtains on them.
    Sex was with a condom and cost $10. It was awful, she just laid there and looked at her phone.

    This is the brothels for indians area of the city, btw.

    I did my business, but I checked my wallet when I was leaving and noticed that several 100 AED notes had disappeared from it. They are each worth around 30 US dollars. I didn't misplace them, there was only 1 note where there should have been 5.

    The crazy part was that my pants and my wallet in the pocket were next to my head almost the entire time. I knew there was something going on and was being careful, but they still snuck money out of my wallet anyways.

    I was so impressed and confused by how they pulled it off that I went back again the next night, intending to discover how the scam works. Same brothel, similar room, except this time I wasn't out to nut, I was out to find out how they were getting into my wallet. I put some notes in it as bait and this time when I was 'fricking' the ugly african I chose, I carefully watched out of the corner of my eye how it went down.

    >she pushes my pants towards the wall, and the edge of the bed, with the pocket that is bulging with my wallet against the wall
    >A FRICKING BLACK HAND REACHES UP FROM UNDER THE BED AND BEGINS RIFLING THROUGH THE POCKET
    >there was a guy under the bed I was fricking an african woman on, who goes through the pockets of the idiots who fall for their cheap sex scam.
    >I burst out laughing and jump off the bed
    >"OK OK, give it back. I let you keep some don't worry. NO PROBLEM."
    >I'm buck ass naked telling an african under my bed to give me back my money
    >moment hesitation
    >black hand reaches out from under the bed with my money
    >I take all but one 100 AED note. I leave him with 30 dollars to avoid things getting physical.
    >get dressed and leave.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That is so dumb and hilarious, but I am so glad you shared that story with us. Honestly, it's never a bad idea to learn more coomer safety tips.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's such a weird part of the city too. It's this massive open air furniture market combined with an african street walker scene in the alleyways.

        You have scantily clad fat african women mingling around pieces of wrapped furniture and televisions being tended to by pakistanis, and scurrying clumps of indian men looking for cheap sex get guided around by touts who usher them into african or pakistani brothels in rooms above the furniture market alleyways.

        The africans and the furniture salesmen ignore each other, like its normal and they are all just doing their business.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That’s funny.
      But it’s also so pathetic.
      You couldn’t rub together a few more bills and find a women not aids?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Your assumptions about my situation and means are amusing to me. I'm a white guy with my own business, this little misadventure was simply a matter of seeking out some interesting variety after having thoroughly explored the other more reputable venues in the city.

        You have to go on safari if you want to see some real wild animals. So too if you want to see the stinking underbelly of a city.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Imagine paying to frick a black person. Gross

      https://i.imgur.com/0H4lytb.jpg

      I got scammed when I went to Europe. I went outside and saw a black person. My entire trip was ruined after that.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Having a hooker not look at me and just be on her phone would be ideal for me as I have severe social anxiety and have not been able maintain an erection for long enough to penetrate a woman.

      It's such a weird part of the city too. It's this massive open air furniture market combined with an african street walker scene in the alleyways.

      You have scantily clad fat african women mingling around pieces of wrapped furniture and televisions being tended to by pakistanis, and scurrying clumps of indian men looking for cheap sex get guided around by touts who usher them into african or pakistani brothels in rooms above the furniture market alleyways.

      The africans and the furniture salesmen ignore each other, like its normal and they are all just doing their business.

      Can you frick pakistani women there?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Can you frick pakistani women there?

        Yes. There are lots of pakistani sex workers in dubai. The cheap brothel ones are absolutely disgusting cumrags for laborers though.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I have a big south asian fetish but it seems like a hard set of ethnicities to frick, especially if youre an autist like me. Anywhere else with south asian hookers?

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Few good ones for this which I hope stands as a lesson to not be a shit c**t like me

    First night in Manila I got jipped for a taxi from the airport. The airport staff were the ones who hailed the car for me and it was a decent looking white van (unlike those white taxi cars with shit printed all over them, avoid those). The guy took me to the wrong hotel and I didn't know, I get out and walk in, they say they don't have a reservation for me and no rooms left (I was only staying at this place one night before I started touring around) so frick me, now what? I ask the concierge lady to get me a taxi.

    It's one of those white taxis. This is where I learned to tell the fricker to run the meter or negotiate a price beforehand instead of just hopping in to one of those cars. Trikes work the same way. Long story short, I ended up paying double what it usually costs to go where I was going because the fricker didn't run the meter. I didn't think anything of it until I met with my guide and they told me I got totally ripped off.

    I had a trike driver do this to me too. He took me to the trike "terminal" instead of where I was going and asked for gas money and the fare which was like 500 pesos. I knew he was ripping me off, but this guy, and I'm pretty tall and fit, this guy comes out of nowhere who is fricking massive and, however politely, asks for the payment. I just forked it out and fricking left to look for another ride.

    Always negotiate price first, and if they're trying to over-charge you for some bullshit excuse just frick off and find another ride because there are tons of other guys working the same job who won't rip you off. Some of them will finger-frick you if you let them.

    Will cont and samegay with other stories

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >be me
      >creepy crawling through the night
      >figure i'll get me some pussy good and tight
      if you get this reference good on you
      >Hit a few gogo bars, none of the girls really that hot
      >Go to one and this hot woman is wearing black tube top, short shorts, and fishnets along with stilettos and fake eyelashes
      >She walks in a really sexy way
      >Want to buy her
      >Yes I said buy, because that's what it is, judge me
      >Some of them have upstairs parts which have, surprisingly, pretty clean rooms and showers that actually fricking work
      >Mamasan and a couple workers come over and sit with me and I ask them if I can buy that woman I mentioned before

      Side note here, the first time you go in to a bar they're going to hustle you. Don't spend too much because you'll end up fricking broke at the end of the night, but do spend enough to keep mamasan happy

      >End up buying a round for the waiting staff/mamsan and girl comes right over
      >Would post naked picture of girl but this is not NSFW board
      >End up spending like 4000 pesos on drinks for all four of them and myself, which is a lot here
      >Spend another 4000 pesos to rent the room and have sex with the woman
      >Mamasan says I can stay there for the night if I want but I wanted to get the frick out of there and back to my girlfriend's place
      >Yes, my Filipina girlfriend lets me frick sex workers
      >Leave and get trike again, negotiate price first, pay on arrival
      >Explain to my girlfriend what happened, she's pissed at me because I spent way too much

      Long and short of it is you will get hustled in these walking street gogo bars and shit. It's almost a skill to get what you want in there without spending a frick ton because stupid moronic white guys go in there with too much money and they all know how to drain it. cont

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        you are an aggressive and rude idiot, no wonder you get ruthlessly scammed all the time

        I don't mean idiot in the casual insult way, I mean you are literally a simpleton. Do not give anybody advice here, your advice is bad. You get into dumb trouble anybody with a shred of street smarts can avoid.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          You wouldn't survive a single night here.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I lived in the Philippines for 2 years, had zero issues despite being a total degenerate. 1 year manila/makati/quezon city. 6 months AC, 6 months cebu city.

            The trick is to be a nice and polite degenerate, treat everybody with respect even if they don't deserve it. Even street people. Even screeching shabu psycho lunatics waving baboo sticks around like swords in the street.

            Handshake and smile, 'How are you friend?' goes 100 miles per the 1 mile your rude dumbfrickery gets you.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Yeah this is pretty accurate. However, I always had respect wherever I went. Bouncers escorted me around even if I didn't pay. I always said hello/goodbye/how are you to everyone that was even mildly associated with me.

              I had to meet my girlfriend's family and some of them were hard bastards. Her brother got shot in a robbery. All of them were covered in tattoos and here's this Amish boy coming in trying to court their sister but I still came out without a scratch. We drank a frick ton of Red Horse and had a blast. Even her father likes me which took about one day to achieve and this girl is fricking sexy. She used to do beauty contests, doesn't drink/smoke/do drugs, I'd say I'm pretty okay with that.

              I can be an butthole in my head and think what I think but I know respect goes a long way no matter where you go to keep you above ground.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >shacking up with a girl who has a criminal family
                if you aren't out of this situation already, you will soon wish that you were
                that's about all I have to say on the subject matter, you'll figure it all out yourself soon enough

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Who the frick are you to judge me? I come from a criminal element and know how to survive in this environment. It pays a hell of a lot better that's for sure. I'm not afraid of anybody.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                yeah man everybody thinks they are tough and clever until they find out how shit goes down in the third world
                the unpredictable stupidity, aggression, and greed of the underhive dwellers will catch you by surprise, eventually
                It will happen, TO YOU. Just survive so that you can eventually greentext about it to us one day, so we can laugh.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You won't have that benefit unfortunately. If shit goes down I won't be able to shitpost about it. Yeah I am deep in to the shit here in the 3rd world but it is a hell of a lot better than the mindless, meaningless hellscape that is the West. I fell in love with this place.

                Know what? I stayed for a fricking reason. I can deal with the scams and the food/water sicknesses and all that and I'll be happy when I hit the dirt, and I couldn't give a flying frick what you think about it. Worlds about to fricking collapse anyway so if I die, whatever, might as well have some fricking fun before I perish.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                kek well at least you aren't half assing it

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Nothing exceeds like excess

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You won't have that benefit unfortunately. If shit goes down I won't be able to shitpost about it. Yeah I am deep in to the shit here in the 3rd world but it is a hell of a lot better than the mindless, meaningless hellscape that is the West. I fell in love with this place.

                Know what? I stayed for a fricking reason. I can deal with the scams and the food/water sicknesses and all that and I'll be happy when I hit the dirt, and I couldn't give a flying frick what you think about it. Worlds about to fricking collapse anyway so if I die, whatever, might as well have some fricking fun before I perish.

                Nothing exceeds like excess

                Which Katana do you carry?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

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              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

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              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                piss flaps

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >i come from a criminal element and know how to survive in this environment
                >yeah i've gotten scammed multiple times in this environment but I know how to survive in it
                >yeah when i was drunk i almost got my ass kicked by a group of criminals but i know what im doing
                It should be illegal to be as moronic as you are.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >shacking up with a girl who has a criminal family
                if you aren't out of this situation already, you will soon wish that you were
                that's about all I have to say on the subject matter, you'll figure it all out yourself soon enough

                So true. If this isn't LARP, then I can't imagine how dumb must actually be to be bragging about this on SighSee like its a positive thing. If he stays in country being this moronic, sooner or later he's going to find a (metaphorical and literal) Big Pinoy wiener in his arse.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Hasn't happened yet. Still have a decent place to live that I don't have to pay for and haven't been castrated and killed after a year. I get drunk with them every weekend when we're not travelling around enjoying life. Must suck to be stuck in a basement with nothing.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Appreciate the advice. It works.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Lmao its the Phillipines not fricking Thunderdome you pompous ass

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Ran out of Emperador so girlfriend is going to get more of it. Anyways, one more for the thread:

        >2nd-3rd night in Manila
        >Walking around alone at night
        >Want a ciggy so I spark it up
        >15 seconds later cop rolls up on a scooter
        >Demands my ID, says I can't smoke there
        >Apologize and give him 1000 pesos to frick off
        >Tells me to finish my smoke and not do it again
        >Drives me back to my hotel after showing me where the "designated smoking area" is which is literally just a parking lot for bike drivers to put their bike while they do whatever the frick it is they do while they're not working

        Everything is literally money here. Have it? You'll be fine, but once they know you do, they are pretty adept at draining it out of you. However, if you're assertive about it they'll back off. I also had a group of like 4-5 Filipino guys who were obviously trouble hustle me for 400 pesos for walking through their "area" at night. I told them to frick off (which in hindsight, I probably wouldn't have done and only did so because I was tipsy and didn't give a frick because I was mad) and they left me alone for some reason.

        >At club
        >fricked different girl previous night
        >other girl i fricked is at club too with her friends
        >one of her friends steals my phone with my back-home SIM card
        >fricked me in to the dirt for a while, had to get Skype and shit to deal with at-home things

        This is a big one. Don't even take your at-home SIM card out especially if you're drinking. Leave it in your safe because if you lose it, despite a new phone/SIM here is cheap as frick, losing that will cause you some problems and it's a pain in the ass to solve.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      My friends and I got fricked over on a taxi ride from the Phuket airport to Patong. Everything else on our trip we booked was incredibly above board, but that first taxi cost us all about $30-$40 because we swung for a pretty decent ride.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Probably extorted out of 1400ish at an atm in cambodia capital after someone put a girl in my trolley

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What, you mean somebody tossed a child into your tuktuk with you, then police came over and accused you of sex trafficking?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        yeah and the girl, tuktuk methhead and fake cops were all in on it

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This is fricked up. I have not seen this once. Where the hell were you in the capital? I get the hustle but holy shit that sucks anon. What would have happened if you didn't have the cash? Would they just haul you to jail? Holy shit that's fricked up.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I've seen it. I was offered children in phnom penh several times while walking home, and noticed motorcycle 'cops' nearby around the corner when I walked away.

        Actually now that I think I've almost had this exact thing happen to me. There were the occasions where somebody put a child on the tuktuk and the tuktuk driver said it was his and he was just going to drop the kid off along the way to my location. I put my foot down and said no, and they acted butthurt so I stepped out and found another ride.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Good instincts there. I wouldn't trust anything beyond what I am asking for in SEA. If it seems like a scam, it definitely is. Ask for something and get it, and that's it. Any frill or something thrown in you will get fricked over.

          I was 2 blocks down from the popular tourist area in PP
          >methhead tuk tuk offers me drugs
          >offers to show me his dick
          >I still get in with him
          >pretty much all downhill from there
          I saw one of the fake cops wandering around the tourist district after but didn't have the power to confront him
          This was a multi-layered scenario and the tuktuk driver also had a guilty conscience and gave me fair warnings there was a possible scam at play

          Cambodia is a shithole because now they actually turned into some sort of moralhomosexualry scamming, this is due to the fake charities and ngo's imposing morals onto their culture

          I met a french guy in the busiest tourist street there downtown who got bearhugged and everything included his passport lifted off him

          Human beings are fricking moronic. I don't mean you, I mean this is the type of shit you get when travelling in places like that. You always have to watch your ass. Maybe you can't blame them because they're broke and starving but holy shit man there is a time and a place for complete degeneracy and actually possessing morality. I feel lucky I haven't lost any of my bank cards or passport yet. The worst I had was a phone snagged.

          Have to add here that there was a guy from my country who was wandering around the red light district looking for someone to help him get a ride to the embassy because he got drugged and robbed in some slumhole.

          I gave him the money so he could get there and I never heard from him again. I hope he ended up alright.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I'm like you but I also try and seek out the "local experience" which some khmers don't like
            At least, that's how I always viewed Asia. What are they keeping from me? They won't win one over on me..

            I did get african bracelet scammed the other day, twice, for a total of 3 euros

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >3 euros

              Pretty hefty loss there my homie. But seriously, it is so much better to meet an actual normal person from SEA and tour around with them. You will notice you get fricked around way less and if they attempt the person with you is pretty quick to tell them to frick right off.

              There is so much to see. Pic related. Don't end up blowing all your money on some sex district because it's honestly not worth it and about how 90% of expats spend their time here, get cleansed and end up jacking it in San Diego.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >There were the occasions where somebody put a child on the tuktuk and the tuktuk driver said it was his and he was just going to drop the kid off along the way to my location

          wow.. actually never heard about that one before. definitely gonna keep an eye out for that

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I was 2 blocks down from the popular tourist area in PP
        >methhead tuk tuk offers me drugs
        >offers to show me his dick
        >I still get in with him
        >pretty much all downhill from there
        I saw one of the fake cops wandering around the tourist district after but didn't have the power to confront him
        This was a multi-layered scenario and the tuktuk driver also had a guilty conscience and gave me fair warnings there was a possible scam at play

        Cambodia is a shithole because now they actually turned into some sort of moralhomosexualry scamming, this is due to the fake charities and ngo's imposing morals onto their culture

        I met a french guy in the busiest tourist street there downtown who got bearhugged and everything included his passport lifted off him

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    dude is going to get his pinay mafiagirl pregnant and get a shotgun wedding while surrounded by gangsters

    the real shock is going to come when he finds out that one of her 'brothers' was her boyfriend and he was just getting milked like a buffalo the whole time

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I do not pay rent, for food, and all the money I spend is on shit that is specifically for myself like fricking bar girls and going out. When I go out with her brothers/cousins, we always split the bill. What country did you visit?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Buddy the situation you are describing is so far outside the normal expat experience that calling you an outlier is an understatement.

        I'm genuinely happy for you if you found a comfortable lifestyle in that sort of place, but my own experiences in the country cause nothing but massive alarm bells to go off in my head when reading about it.

        Maybe you've just got a whole different vibe and energy going on that allows you to insinuate yourself into such a situation smoothly.

        Reading about it like hearing a joke and waiting for a punchline though, because I've never heard a version of this story that had a happy or normal ending.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Ending hasn't happened yet. Yes, this is true, and I do not give a frick who believes it or not. I don't know if it is because I am young and white but nothing I have said was LARPed. This is my life and what I chose to do and damn the rest.

          I am almost 30 and am not married and have no kids. Many such cases. I don't intend on wasting the next ten years of my life doing absolutely nothing, eating, working, drinking, and then dying.

          Here's the simple way to describe it: I moved here, met a girl as fricked up as me, decided I wanted to stay with her, respected her family and they let me move in with her. Now that she's pregnant I am pretty much devoted now. I am really good at adapting to situations, can make money doing semi-shady shit here and it is how it is.

          Yeah, maybe I'll end up dead or fricked up in a ditch but I really don't give a shit. The wife and life I left back at home was such a miserable, pointless experience that naturally this was going to happen. That's just how I look at it.

          You can view it however you please and I am not going to judge you over it. I will say, this is the best decision I have ever made in my short life and I do not regret it at all.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Anything beats scrounging out a miserable existence in the open air prison of the west. Did you find a legit way to make some cash or are you building some house of cards criminal shit with your new buds?

            I've known several guys over the years who got into shaddy business with Filipinos just to keep their head above the water, and who got burned for it.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I work at a casino and get paid under the table. I make about 250,000 peso a month and it's enough to keep us comfortable. My girlfriend works in exporting electronics for some Koreans and makes about the same.

              I was basically hooked up by my sister's brothers/cousins as they run a ton of businesses here. I have a non-meme degree that makes me competent and high experience for someone so young so I could really do whatever I want.

              Some of the side shit we do is shady but I'm not even going to talk about any of that. You can probably assume what it is. My legit job is at a casino but it's all under the table because I'm waiting on a work Visa to train CPAs.

              That sounds worrying, but I find the less I give a shit the better and the less I know about it the better. I don't get involved in other people's bullshit and have not had an issue. I do what I have to do and that's it.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                fricked that up I meant my girlfriend's brothers/cousins

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                When I saw that, I just assumed you had a (half-)sister with one different parent than you, and she had brothers/cousins through that other parent.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Nah I'm about as white as rice (Amish). I'm just a dirty white boy fricking Pinays in paradise.

                Ngl, sounds pretty sweet actually. Sorry for busting your balls, just a bit out there compared to the tales I've heard before.

                If you're in the shabu business you're going to get fricked eventually though, just saying.

                All good man I am used to that shit. I have had my balls busted in person multiple times by this girl's humongous family it doesn't bother me that much. Not in the shabu business as well I wouldn't even touch that shit because those guys are fricking crazy. It's how my girlfriend's brother got stabbed and killed.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >I'm about as white as rice (Amish).
                Are you a real amish?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Ngl, sounds pretty sweet actually. Sorry for busting your balls, just a bit out there compared to the tales I've heard before.

                If you're in the shabu business you're going to get fricked eventually though, just saying.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                If you cook books or help with laundering, you will eventually become a big liability. It might not end badly if you stick with your girl and you're both happy together, but if you guys ever split up then you better have an escape plan to get away fast.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            what country did you run away from?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            If you left a wife and family behind that gave a shit about you that's kinda fricked up but I guess better than leading people on and doing something you don't want to do. Sounds like a stressful existence either way.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I thought the Buffalo was sick? Now you're saying he's the Buffalo? oh man

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    What’s not to believe? They had my phone and wallet and wouldn’t give it up unless I paid. What am I supposed to do? Run?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      fight

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I've probably been overcharged for stuff, but I usually haggle to a price I'm comfortable with.
    I got hit with the "temple is closed, this official driver will take you somewhere cool" scam in Thailand but the driver actually took us to a nicer, quieter temple.
    I realised it was a scam on the way and offered him half the agreed fare, but he refused because he wanted to take me to one of those Arab fashion stores and get his full scam money. I just wandered around the temple for a bit then left out of a different entrance without paying him anything, so I guess I was reverse scammed.

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    LMAO@this thread
    this board is more pathetic than LULZ

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      He wrote from his dark basement in the midwest

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Mostly just getting up charged on stupid shit, probably $100 all together? After a while it just gets tiring haggling over a couple dollars every fricking time you buy something.

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    100 euros in Paris. And I almost get kidnapped

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >Worst case scenario I might have to stay in a hotel for a few days and hop on a flight with a reasonable price and the travel time will have tons of layovers. I might be moronic but I have an escape fund.
    My advice is to run as soon as you sense tension or problems in your relationship (or more serious ones with her family/your employer). It will be too late by the time you think it's serious. The people you work with will be very good at reassuring you that everything is okay, you're important, loved like family, etc... until suddenly it's over, and if you even have time to think when it happens, you'll be completely unprepared for that moment. Assume that everything is going to fall apart. Start putting money in crypto or physically stashed somewhere. You're situation will not last forever and most likely when it ends, it will end badly. You'll need a head start to get to the airport and out before they can stop you. Consider laying down groundwork of plausible excuses for needing to go to the city - start getting regular dental work done, treatment for a chronic pain, etc. What you do isn't my line of work but I know a lot about it and the people you work for, and you can't be paranoid enough.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Solid advice, anon and taken seriously. This is a high-risk lifestyle for sure and I know it won't last forever. The solidifying factor I have now is that I'm going to have a baby with this girl and they have no other sibling because my would-be brother-in-law got murdered in a robbery.

      My escape plan is to say I have to deal with banking shit (BDO, I have them convinced that's who I worked for prior in my home country) and just head straight to the bus terminal. I don't have social media and my cellphone number can easily be swapped because SIM cards are cheap here. My girlfriend doesn't even know my West number or any idea where I am actually from.

      I also use a fake accent (Russian/Balkan) so they don't even know what country I am actually from. I told them I was from rural Germany and worked at a bank. Only thing I didn't really bullshit about was my degree/specialization and that was so I could get the job I have.

      I have good street smarts and could survive on my own honestly moving place to place like a nomad. I get exactly what you're saying though, but I have covered my ass and have a plan. I will sense when shit is about to get bad.

      Funny yesterday I shot a hen that wandered in to our backyard with some fricking gun contraption that was loaded with water and shot marbles. The brother came over, handed me this makeshift firearm and offered to let me shoot it. I nailed it right in the neck with this hand cannon and my girlfriend's dad gave me a hug. Not sure what that means, but it was reassuring. Picture somewhat related but way more makeshift than that one in pic.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >I also use a fake accent(Russian/Balkan)

        Ok anon, you got me. Larp of the year. You had me convinced for a while!

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >I also use a fake accent (Russian/Balkan) so they don't even know what country I am actually from.

        I did that a lot with my friend. We would create a slavic language based on famous russian names, like:
        >Scammer: Hello sir! Beautiful buy this
        >Me: Sharapovskaya gorbachovsky nanamouskouryvsky?
        >Scammer: What? You russia?
        >Me: Vladimirosky putinom, baryshnikov!
        >Scammer: uh... oh ok.

        99% of the time, it works everytime.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I also use horse taming sounds when they talk to me, like sshhhh, hiiiyya

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        From a complete outsider's perspective it really sounds like you should get the frick away from there and start anew.

        Like, marry that girl since you're having a kid, and gtfo the country with her. You probably have enough bucks that you can just put it all on crypto and invest it in some other country.

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Got roofied in Japan in Kabukichou (yeah i know shut up) and woke up the next morning at 11am in the street with £428 less than I had the night before

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Do you know what they got you with? I got roofied with some GHB in my own developed world. Luckily I had friends who dragged me the frick back to my dorm and eventually the hospital. I could hear everything but I couldn't open my eyes or move at all. That shit is evil.

      Still have no idea who did it, but suspect this group of Middle Eastern foreign students did it because they ended up getting kicked out of school and deported for drugging girls and raping them.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No idea, don't know how I would even find out what I was given. Pretty sure it happened at some point in a hostess bar, though I don't even remember going in, a friend of mine said we went inside to check it out and then got separated.

        It is evil but honestly i look back on it and laugh at how stupid i was. My friends ask me to retell the story every now and then because it is pretty funny.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Funny in retrospect, but that shit could have gotten you on ice for sure. Good thing you had a friend with you. Human trafficking is a major industry and even in Japan it's common.

          I fricked a sex worker in Thailand and she spoke pretty good English. Her brother just disappeared one night after he went out and they never heard from him again. The "police" told her he was kidnapped by sex traffickers and was God knows where according to their investigation.

          At least you can laugh about it in retrospect because that's the kind of thing that keeps you alive ironically; being completely careless. It's the ones who care even slightly who end up really fricked over. Funny how that works.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >At least you can laugh about it in retrospect because that's the kind of thing that keeps you alive ironically; being completely careless. It's the ones who care even slightly who end up really fricked over. Funny how that works.

            You know that's probably really true. i was with two friends and we all thought "we grew up in London, we've seen some shit, we know our shit, let's give this area we've heard lots of dodgy things about a go, what's the worst that could happen?" And I think that did indeed ironically play to our advantage. Probably a terrible example of positive re-inforcement

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Human beans are fricking moronic man. We have this complex that makes the negative positive. I'm listening to roosters screech right now because the sun is coming up and it just reminds me that there is no way that we are the only life form in the universe.

              There has to be something smarter than this shit. We are fricking dumb, the meat we eat is dumber, and I can't fricking take it anymore. Holy shit we are stupid and the only cure, for me so far, has been to drink until I am just as dumb as everyone around me.

              Not saying I have some sort of superior intellect, but some of the shit I've seen in the 3rd world is next-level moronic. At the same time I have grown to appreciate the drive some of these frickers have just to survive.

              It's fricking insane. I think we live in the most demented dimension of reality possible. Every one of us has some sort of mental illness and you're better off not even defining it as such. So much crazy shit has happened to me around idiots that you manifest it and when you start to talk about anything conceptual they get worn out.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              survivorship bias : the post

              The only reason why you frickers got away with it is because you were lucky. There is a reason why the crime, the sleaze and the shadiness is very compartmentalized (red light districts some nightlife) and very visible (tattoo wearing people, oddly aggressive compared to the populace) in East Asia (China/Taiwan, Korea, Japan...). For all their decreasing influence they still litterally get away with murder. Having the kind of naive behavior we have back home ("yeah well I grew up with worse people") really isnt' the way to go.

              This isn't London or Paris or other western megacities where petty criminals and law abiding citizens basically live their lives together in shitty neighborhoods, these guys have clear cut fricking territories where their word is law and your only saving grace is that messing with innocent foreigners is too much of a liability to deal with (but they will do so if they think they can get away with it). So while kabukicho may seem relatively safe so long as you're not completely moronic, it is a hostile environment, and if you are moronic it's only a question of time until you get irrevocably fricked.

              This is especially true of long term expats who think they can dip but a toe in the game. From selling a few buds of weed for 40 bucks a gram to pay the bills, to murdering snitches.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                That's not what survivorship bias is you college moron. You midwits are literally the dumbest people on the planet

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I one time got drugged by some other tourists, Russians, in SEA. Luckily I had a lot of friends with me but frick me, that night was going great and then just a blur.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I met some "Freemasons" (whatever the frick they do) and I, to my detriment, accepted some cigars from them. I don't remember a god damned thing about that day and luckily left all my shit in the hotel room. All I remember is we had about 8 girls in some hotel room and someone recorded me fricking this Thai girl to pieces. She bled. It was exhilarating. I also remember the girl sitting in the corner of the room as I drank with these guys and just looking defeated. I also remember kissing her forehead before we went back to our hotel.

          The same day I had rocks thrown at me by some street kids and one got me pretty good. Shit was great. I woke up back at my hotel by a knock at the door by these "Freemason" guys checking on me. We just kept drinking.

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    $4 to those fake monks in LA.
    I couldn't say no and next thing I knew I had a fricking book covering whatever teaching he was prattling on about that I just threw away.
    I'd never make it outside my rural shithole.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Well you've defeated yourself already with

      >I'd never make it outside my rural shithole.

      You'd be surprised with how well you can survive if you take a chance and throw yourself in to the shit. It's fricking worth it too because you will never have a better time.

      The repercussion is I am now addicted to the darkest and most depraved music ever. The benefit is I get to have sex with one of the hottest girls I've ever seen every day, whenever I want, and the b***h cooks and cleans too. I don't have to do shit. I eat, drink, sleep, and every morning I wake up to some pussy.

      Pretty good fricking life if you take the chance and go for it.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        what music?

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    $1k, I was super drunk and ended up hiring a taxi for all night in the US. He drove me from club to club waiting outside, drove me to a massage parlor, maybe ~6 hours or so. Only time I've ever been to a massage parlor where they line the girls up and you choose. Gave him $1k at the end of it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      you scammed yourself bro wtf also you shouldve just rented a limo for the night prob would've been like $250 cheaper kek

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      lol'd. Like the other anon said you could have hired a limo driver and booked the time in advance if you really wanted that type of experience. Hindsight is always 20/20. Next time you go on a binge just rent a limo driver (it's not as expensive as you think) and tour the frick around. Maybe bring some buddies with you next time so you don't get fricked around.

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I let a kid hustle me for $20 in Thailand because I was drunk and all my friends wanted to tuck in early for the night.

    Knew he'd destroy me but thought the experience would be fun.

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Never got scammed really, except for 2 EUR at the Athens Airport, the bus conductor charged me a higher ticket price than usual. I have been traveling with my brother to greece and italy, there are many street hustlers, but it is easy to avoid them.

    I heard that scammers often target young girls or groups with young girls, is it true??
    Just avoid black people, especially those who are approaching you.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'd dare say all of the scammers I saw last week in Italy targeted women.

      I think it's because women try to be "open minded" and not racist, so they see a crowd of dirty looking African dudes with shitloads of garbage in their hands approaching every single person who walks by and assume there must be zero bad intentions--clearly those guys really are giving you a free gift and you really are their white African sister. Meanwhile most men know that an African guy randomly approaching you is generally something you want to avoid unless you already know and trust them.

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not me but when I was a kid my dad got scammed train tickets by some nafri bastard when we were in Paris about 15 years ago, I've vowed to never go again until the brown lowlives somehow get kicked out.

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Been to about 60 countries, only time I got scammed was in Thailand. I’m not a coomer but went out for drinks with a middle aged Croatian guy who was. I ordered some drinks, got pretty drunk. Cashier told me my bill was about $50, found out they charged me $1500 the next day.

    Wasn’t a big deal, the bank refunded me the full amount

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Soem white looking guy came up to me in Makati and said he lost his buds and wanted a wingman. I joined him for drinks at a gogo and he went really hard. Shot after Shot and ladydrinks too.

    He went to the pisser and never came back. The bar bouncer insisted I pay his bill. $200 down the drain.

    Lesson learned?
    >never trust any solo man walking up to you, anywhere.

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I’m embarrassed to admit that I fell for a variation on the age-old champagne scam in a bar in Geneva. Offered to buy the very friendly, chatty Bulgarian hostess a drink (I can’t speak French worth a damn and was relieved to have someone to speak to in Russian, in which she was fluent), she poured herself a hilariously expensive glass of champagne, climbed over the bar and tried to get me to pay her for sex.

    Ended with her yelling at me, “I hate people like you,” meaning ‘men who love their wives.’ I really didn’t think it was that kind of bar, and had I known that it was I would have at least chatted up her more attractive colleague.

    I don’t remember exactly how much money her drink was, but it was a startling amount, even by Swiss bar standards—perhaps $50?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >I don’t remember exactly how much money her drink was, but it was a startling amount, even by Swiss bar standards—perhaps $50?

      1 You don't refuse an escort, are you gay?
      2 It's not a scam, it's just an expensive bar.

      I went to a bar in a Hyatt Hotel once (the infamous Lost in Translation bar, don't start me on this, a b***h dragged me there) and it was like $80 for three wienertails.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >I went to a bar in a Hyatt Hotel once (the infamous Lost in Translation bar, don't start me on this, a b***h dragged me there) and it was like $80 for three wienertails.
        That's not an unreasonable price for Tokyo. Small wienertail bars will charge 2000 yen for a drink, so 33% more for a memed hotel sounds right.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >1 You don't refuse an escort, are you gay?
        Not gay, just happily married. Also know from pre-marriage experience that I dislike paid sex, and she wasn’t very attractive.
        >2 It's not a scam, it's just an expensive bar.
        The ~50 was just for her glass of cheap not-really-champagne, not for the whole tab. An expensive Swiss bar charges 20something for a wienertail, not 50 for a glass of Prosecco.

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    everytime i've been to baltimore my gas tank gets siphoned off by hotel parking attendants. so 3 tanks of gas in total.

    saw cal's last home game and will never go back again.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      homie got to eat

  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I once gave a homeless guy $15 on a bus across Java thinking he worked for the bloke driving the bus, that's about it

  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Young women are so naive that they won't realize they were scammed until they are telling the story years later and somebody with an actual brain points out the scam. The entire trinket industry survives off idiot women getting conned into buying overpriced junk.

  43. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    10 dolars, in hollywood, a "rapper" put a his mixtape in my hand and sing it, and ask me for money, why police dont stop them???

  44. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    $80 on my first solo trip. In NYC, 2 Black folk pretending to work for the taxi driver wanted the fare up front to the airport. I was young and dumb. Never relax.

  45. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's kinda sad you can't go anywhere on vacation without some lowlife browns trying to scam you. I'm going Paris next week and I'm just gonna pretend I don't speak any english to these c**ts

  46. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    homosexual on the streets of Budapest pretending to be from Iceland and had lost his wallet and needed some cash to get home. My wife gave him 100 euros. Saw him the next day on the street pulling same scam. Though about unironically minecrafting him. He is going to hell and my waifu is going to heaven.

  47. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Zero because I'm not moronic.

    If a stranger comes up to you, just keep walking. They prey on people who conform to social standards of politeness.

    Then those same polite people wonder where their wallet is 10 minutes later and the scammer is nowhere to be seen.

  48. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The equivalent of $1, then, or like 10 cents today. In Buenos Aires.

  49. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Some group of Spanish youngsters walked with me while i was walking back from the feria de abril in Sevilla pissdrunk. The girls talked with me and one held my hand while some guy in the group became buttmad. He pushed me and i pushed back. Then one girl got angry as well and lifted a 5 or 20 euro note from my pocket (it was green or blue, couldnt really see it). Maybe it was just opportunistic robbery idk.

  50. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not even a scam, just Chinese shite tech
    >go to a reputable bank in downtown international bus hub of Beijing
    >use ATM to take out $500USD in Yuan via Interact like I've done thousands of times before
    >ATM gives me a receipt but no money
    >check my bank balanced and it shows $500 as being taken out
    >Chink bank staff tell me its my Canadian bank's problem
    >Canadian bank tell me to follow up with the Chinese bank
    >cut my losses and move on

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      There was an ATM scam going on for a while in the west where they inserted some sort of device into the machine that physically blocked the money from coming out, but when they removed it it'd suddenly start spitting out notes. I'm guessing people in China were pulling similar scams

  51. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Got really fricked up in Paceville, Malta and woke up with 300-350 euro less than I previously had. But I had a mobile phone and wallet with me and nothing else was missing. So who knows what happened.

  52. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    For once got travel insurance on my flight from the airline for a seemingly dicey trip I planned. Flights ended up canceled, luckily I had the insurance, oh wait, it wasn't even legit despite being offered by the airline. turns out it was a sponsored 3rd party or something. ended up disputing on my credit card but frick me so out $300. some airlines are just flat out scams, same with car rentals.

  53. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Back in 2015 I was accepted into an exchange program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. They send out a physical signed letter that was required on arrival into China and when first attending the campus.

    I was spending a few weeks in Thailand before going to China. Stayed in a hotel in Bangkok and then took a bus to Pattaya (not to coom, but that place is great for people watching). Realise I left the acceptance letter along with $1000AUD in an envelope in my room in Bangkok. Take the next bus back to Bangkok, ask at the front desk if they found a envelope. The cleaner said they didn't find it; lying c**t.

    Book the same room, and sneakily wheel the garbage inside where I sifted through it for a couple of hours. Found my envelope scrunched up with the acceptance letter inside. Obviously the money was gone. Arrived in China a few weeks later. Letter looked completely fricked up; stains etc. For a moment it looked like they were gonna refuse because they thought it was fake. All fine in the end.

  54. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Nike store in Prague charged me $900 for 2 pairs of shoes, a jacket and a small cross body bag for my girlfriend. It should have been less than $400. We disputed the charge with my credit card company and got back more than they owed us. Always use credit. Had it been debit, we would have been out the dough

  55. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Im from outside NYC, and as a teenager I would travel in solo. Went to times square and they had guys running the “collecting for [nameless] charity” that will “help homeless”. One guy dragged me in and started convincing me that I should give. Took him 5 minutes to get $10 out of me.

    He said thank you, but then asked if I would give a $20, he’d give back the $10. He just wanted a $20 in the box to convince others to give like I did. That sounded reasonable so I took my $10 and handed him a $20.

    Half way crossing the street my heart dropped when I understood that it took him only one sentence to scam me out of $20, instead of $10.

    When I got to the next corner a guy in the same “uniform” for the same “charity” started working on me. I said I just gave to the other guy, and he said “that’s got nothing to do with me, I care about my box”. Worst part of the story is it made me jaded and I never give money to anyone, even if they need it. Still getting over that.

  56. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Never. Unless I'm not aware of it.

    Once some big guy came up tom me and pointed to his hear and showed me "no sound" picture or some shit. And I'm like what is this? You want money out of apparent tourist? I told him "I'm an butthole, get the frick away from me" I was just watching Vagrant Holiday so I was feeling it and I was pissed, waiting for a taxi. He again showed me the picture "no sound" or whatever and I said something like "No no, frick off". And he did the same thing at locals and they also have him $0.

    I don't know if this was a scam or not, certainly weird. I was expecting him to stab me tbh. I was really rude.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >I didn't give the deaf handicapped man any charity because the YouTuber told me to

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Those fricking pieces of shit are the worst. A middle aged woman came up to me with a "petition" of some sort and she played the deaf/mute role, gave you a pen to sign but once you take it you'll notice it's a fricking donation and you're fricked. Anyway, I gave a euro or something but she had the audacity to try it the next day again I told her to frick off

  57. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Paid about $60 for a cab ride in Santiago Chile when I could've taken a uber lol

  58. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    think i paid some money in berlin but i never got scammed
    it was the opposite
    i paid like 2.95 for some juice once though

  59. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    $1600

  60. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Around $200. By another gringo too, I was staying at a sorta hostel sorta hotel in Mexico that had tiny individual rooms and a large common area. I met this older (50s) guy who seemed cool and was there with some girlfriend I think and we talked for a while and later he approached me kinda desperate saying he wanted to stay longer but his debit card was declined and it was just some issue with the bank flagging the hotel charge as suspicious, that he had 10k saved up for the trip in the bank and that he would pay me back the the next day once he got it sorted out but just needed to give the hotel a deposit so they wouldn't kick him out. I fell for it since I only expected that sort of shit from the locals. The next morning they were long gone. I guess he actually stiffed the hotel out of some money too. They bought me food though at a restaurant across the street so I guess I was only out like $190. Definitely an eye opener.

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