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Around The World In 80 Scams

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Author : Peter John
language : en
Publisher: Bennion Kearny Limited
Release Date : 2011

Around The World In 80 Scams written by Peter John and has been published by Bennion Kearny Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Travel categories.

People come in two kinds: travellers and those who are missing out. From Cambodia to The Caymans and Arizona to Zimbabwe - travelling has never been easier or more popular. From two week jaunts to gap year meanderings, and for people on all budgets, glorious opportunities exist in all corners of the world. Unfortunately, travelling also presents openings for the less principled people out there. Every year, thousands of people fall victim to various scams, crimes and confidence tricks while they travel. Most people escape having simply lost a little money, but many lose much more, and some encounter real personal danger. Of course, despite the hazards people should not stop travelling - people just need to get smart. This essential book is a practical, focused, and detailed guide to eighty of the most common scams and crimes travellers might encounter. It is packed with real-world examples drawn from resources across the globe and the author's own travels. Being aware of scammers' tricks is the best way of avoiding them altogether. Forewarned is forearmed. This book is for anybody who travels and wants to avoid being scammed. From new travellers to more experienced voyagers; even lifelong travellers will discover new information in this book that will help protect them from trouble. - Learn scammer 'tricks of the trade', and how to avoid them. - Understand how common scams are, and where they are most likely to be found. - Develop vigilance for high risk people, activities and environments. - Packed with real life advice, insights, and examples. Chapter 1: Hotels and other accommodation scams Chapter 2: Transport scams Chapter 3: Cash, ATM and credit card scams Chapter 4: Travel agent and travel club scams Chapter 5: Shopping scams Chapter 6: Eating, drinking and gambling scams Chapter 7: Government scams Chapter 8: E-mail and Internet scams Chapter 9: Begging and street hustling scams Chapter 10: Extortion, blackmail and fraud scams Epilogue: How I try to avoid being scammed

Travel Scams

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Hazardous Materials
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988

Travel Scams written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Hazardous Materials and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Consumer protection categories.

India Culture Travel Scams

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Author : Subodh Gupta
language : en
Publisher: Lulu Enterprises Uk Limited
Release Date : 2008-07

India Culture Travel Scams written by Subodh Gupta and has been published by Lulu Enterprises Uk Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07 with Travel categories.

â€œThe only book on travel scams targeted at western tourists in Indiaâ€ This is a practical India travel guide about understanding Indian culture and travel scams in India and is based on real life experiences. This book will help you to avoid embarrassing mistakes and prepare you to feel confident in unfamiliar situations. Content in this book includes Indian social customs, their perception about Western women, their religion, what motivates them, travel scams targeted at Western tourists and of course what not to discuss with Indians, etc.About the author:Mr Subodh Gupta was born and brought up in India and lived there for about 35 years. Mr Gupta has been interviewed by various TV channels and his views and articles appear regularly in magazines and newspapers in India and the UK. For more details please visit:www.subodhgupta.com

Travel Advisory

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Author : Bambi Vincent
language : en
Publisher: Bonus Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2003

Travel Advisory written by Bambi Vincent and has been published by Bonus Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Political Science categories.

Don't become a victim! Next time you a plan a trip, arm yourself with the most comprehensive travel safety guide on the market. Renowned travel experts Bambi Vincent and Bob Arno give you the inside look at today's con games, credit card scams, distraction schemes, and identity thefts plaguing unaware travelers everywhere.

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Travel Tales Cons Scams Ripoffs

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Author : Michael Brein
language : en
Publisher: True Travel Tales
Release Date : 2022-07-31

Travel Tales Cons Scams Ripoffs written by Michael Brein and has been published by True Travel Tales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-31 with Psychology categories.

Travel Tales: Cons, Scams & Ripoffs is a collection of tales of schemes perpetrated against travelers. If you're conned or scammed in your travels we hope you escape them with only minor inconveniences. This book collects a variety of schemes that happen to travelers, but mostly these won't happen to you. You'll read examples of often elaborately orchestrated schemes that unscrupulous actors create and carry out on you if you're unwary. This book includes common schemes designed to separate you from your money. Although scammed victims will often credit con artists with undo creativity, most often victims would just as soon not be victims to begin with. Indeed, the stories in this book run the gamut of clever ruses played out on unwary travelers. Even the manufacturers of alluring beautiful carpets for sale in the Middle East see you coming! How easy they fool you. Travelers pay ridiculous prices for items they could've paid far less. Is bargaining so distasteful, or have they not bargained nearly long enough? Scams have been around since time immemorial. Other cons lure unsuspecting victims into bars. And gambling cons are run on tourists looking for quick and easy wins, too trusting players, and unwitting losers.There are countless stories of ripoffs involving taxis, camels, rickshaws, boats, and what have you, whereby travelers would've been much better off had they negotiated fares in advance. "Negotiate, negotiate, negotiate" we're told before getting in cabs. You'd be surprised how many travelers still fail to do this! People love to be fooled by clever magicians. Americans are often easily conned into taking for granted so-called self-styled 'experts, ' who fool you into believing they really know what they're doing when clearly they do not. It's no surprise that some river guide 'experts' have fallen victim, themselves, to crocodile and hippo attacks while guiding travelers on jungle rivers. This book is the place to read abou the perpetrators and the victims of cons and scams to get a good idea of what some are and how to avoid them. You'll gain a healthy respect for what it is to be the victim of one of the seemingly endless variety of schemes designed to lure the unwary traveler. And with a better knowledge of dangers of falling victim to these cons and scams through reading the accounts of others, hopefully, you'll gain a better sense of safety, security, enjoyment, and appreciation of your travels. This book includes many examples of bad things that can happen to the unwary traveler. But bad things DO happen, and the best thing is to avoid them in altogether. We should try our best to escape them. While there's no easy miracle fix for dealing with the seemingly endless variety of cons and scams, there are, nevertheless, meaningful takeaway strategies in this book that should better enable you to make you more aware of the schemes in travel to help you reduce the risks of succumbing to them. While many of the cons and scams are not particularly dangerous, many are about difficult, embarrassing, and otherwise annoying nuisances that we'd all do very well to avoid. Some of the cons, scams, and ripoffs may surprise you, and some would never likely even occur to you. Indeed, such misadventures may never happen to you, but reading about them should at least give you some pause. Who knows, maybe you'll never suffer the indignity and inconvenience of a con game or scam after all. Sure, you'll read the stories that'll alert you to situations you've never heard of, but if you avoid even one con or scam through reading this book, then I'll have accomplished a very useful purpose.

Travel Tales Monthly

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Author : Michael Brein, Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: Michael Brein, Inc.
Release Date : 2015-02-01

Travel Tales Monthly written by Michael Brein, Ph.D. and has been published by Michael Brein, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Monthly Bookazine Issue No. 8 for February 2015 contains among the best travel stories from Michael’s huge collection of about 10,000 travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of travel to more than 125 countries throughout the world. There's not a one of us who hasn't been at some time or other in his or her travel life conned, scammed or hasn't fallen victim in one form or another to some sort of clever ruse or rip off, often perpetrated on unknowing travelers who are well-intentioned, sometimes naive, and often traveling ‘on automatic,’ i.e., not paying close attention to what is going on. Though not usually quite as stark as pick pocketing or out-right theft, per se, these are ‘softer,’ more subtle, and oft, somewhat clever schemes pulled off on unwary travelers. Unfortunately, travel today for anyone, and particularly for relatively naive, younger and inexperienced travelers, has increasing challenges, what with the growing numbers of people relegated to begging, scheming, thieving, and having to do whatever they need to do to survive and get by. All too often, it has just about become almost the norm for people of all persuasions and varieties to try to somehow dispossess unknowing and unsuspecting foreign travelers of their money, passports, personal possessions and effects, and travel accouterments, simply because it's the easiest way for them to get by. It's often easier to steal than to work. And work overseas is not always easy to come by for those who want or need it. And not only are there the usual local legions of pick pockets, thieves, and muggers on the prowl to contend with, that are looking for victims, there are plenty of other fellow travelers guilty of doing such things as well. Often travelers find themselves in difficult and sometimes dire situations, such as running out of money, getting into trouble, contending with being far away from home, maybe even getting strung out on drugs, or just having difficulty surviving. Some of these travelers, as a result, find themselves succumbing to and joining the ranks of con artists and scammers who prey on other travelers and sometimes even the locals. Finally, who has not at one time or another in one's travel life tried to see what they can get away with—perhaps trying to ‘get something for nothing!’ Being far away from home and not normally under the usual familial or social constraints, it is no wonder that there's often a temptation to ‘get away with things’ that one would not normally try at home, but which the more lax foreign environment gives more free rein to. In fact, it is often sometimes simply ‘good sport’ to see what one can get away with without getting caught. Introduction to Travel Tales of Cons, Scams and Other Rip Offs. Part 1 Travel Tales of Cons, Scams and Other Rip Offs is divided into two parts simply because there is so much material. Part 1 appears here in the current Travel Tales Monthly issue No. 8 Feb 2015 and serves as a general introduction to this subject matter. Part 2 The unabridged, expanded forthcoming ebook Travel Tales of Cons, Scams and Other Rip Offs, part of The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series, is a larger volume and includes both Parts 1 and 2. Young inexperienced and naive travelers, in particular, and the rest of us, in general, often have a tendency to trust others a little too easily and too quickly. And this is what can get us into trouble. Those who will prey upon us with all sorts of cons, scams, and schemes are often very well-practiced and fairly expert at relieving us from our money, our important papers as well as our important travel things. I have heard hundreds of tales of the innocent as well as the fairly savvy traveler falling victim to an untold number of different cons and scams. There's no doubt in my mind that we can benefit a lot by simply reading and thinking about the accounts of others who have had these bad, unfortunate things happen to them. Mostly your travels will be safe without incident, but bad things, though rare, can happen to anyone at almost any turn along the way. I hope these things don't happen to you, but if they do, I sincerely hope that the travel tales of cons, scams, and ripoffs that appear in these pages will have been helpful to you in some way.

The Travel Scam Survival Guide 2018 Edition

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Author : Peter John
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-04-16

The Travel Scam Survival Guide 2018 Edition written by Peter John and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-16 with Travel categories.

The Travel Scam Survival Guide offers practical advice on avoiding the scams and hoaxes that can ruin any trip. From no-menu, rigged betting, and scenic taxi tour scams to rental damage, baksheesh, and credit card deceits - this book details scam hotspots, how the scams play out and what you can do to prevent them.

The Travel Scam Survival Guide 2018

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018

The Travel Scam Survival Guide 2018 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.

Air Travel

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Author : United States. General Accounting Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990

Air Travel written by United States. General Accounting Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Advertising categories.

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