How to deceive tourists: user revelations
Tourists told what types of fraud they had to face while traveling.
The British edition of The Sun, citing users of the Reddit website, reports that one of the most common schemes of deception is the sale of fake tickets to visit attractions.
According to one of the netizens, at the pyramids of Giza in Egypt, people with fake badges approached him and demanded to pay them extra to see the Sphinx.
Another trick in tourist trips is the double menu in restaurants. According to tourists, local establishments often offer a menu where prices are lower, and tourists are given a menu with prices in foreign currency and in English.
Travelers believe that the methods of fraud and deception vary depending on the country and city of visit.
A Reddit user shared his example, saying that one day a man approached him in New Orleans and offered to clean his shoes for free. As the tourist explained, the shoes were cleaned for free, but they took money for the conversation.
In Machu Picchu, it is advised to organize a tour in advance.
On July 7, experts of the True Ticket project said that the number of fraudulent resources for the sale of air tickets for June increased by 60%, for the month found 318 fake sites and accounts in social networks.
R. Krivulin, executive director of BrandSecurity, noted that attentiveness will help protect against scammers: you need to check sites for the correctness of writing the address, since scammers can create doubles with errors in the name.
Ya. Kravtsov, head of the department of special projects of the Department of Protection against Digital Risks of Group-IB, said that fraudsters in Russia have discovered a new way to deceive tourists using Telegram bots that create fake pages of online services for booking hotels, renting real estate, searching for fellow travelers.
Source: iz
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