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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.
Travel Tales Collections Airplane Stories
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Author : Michael Brein, Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: Michael Brein, Inc.
Release Date : 2015-04-20
Travel Tales Collections Airplane Stories 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 2015-04-20 with Travel categories.
The ‘Travel Tales Collection, Airplane Stories,’ No. 9, April 2015, is part of Michael Brein’s ‘Collections’ travel tales series and contains among the best travel stories from Michael’s huge collection of 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. ‘Travel Tales Collections’ are groups of very interesting similar travel stories of a kind on a variety of very specific travel subjects, themes, or countries, such as close calls, great escapes, pickpocketing, scams, safety and security in travel, Paris, Morocco, Mexico, and so on. Eventually, several hundred ‘Collections’ on all sorts of specific travel subjects, themes, and countries will be available on all the major eReaders. An airline story is in the news today! And so it goes. There’s hardly a day now that an airline incident of some sort or another is not in the news. We’re taking a lot closer look at air travel these days than ever before. Therefore, as regards the psychology of travel, we should take a much closer look at what actually happens on airplanes. And so, in The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series, that's exactly what I do. Air-travel-life stories include the full range of the human air travel experience, from pre-boarding incidents to arrivals; from the cabin to the loo; from the public and private lives of airline personnel as well as passengers—from the pilots to the stews to you—from that which makes us laugh to that which makes us cry, as well as, unfortunately, to that which creates abject fear and terror in the skies. Air travel is now more in the public eye than ever before. Thus, it is no wonder now that regarding the experience of traveling in the skies—like any other aspect of travel—we are not only more circumspect than ever before—we are, on closer view, now much more aware of how air travel is now seen to elicit the full range of the human experience. And in this one particular unique microcosmic window of scrutiny we see that air-travel is but one unique travel environment in a cornucopia of many others, and one that is neither unimportant, insignificant, indistinct, nor independent with respect to the overall experience of travel. Love it, hate it, or simply endure it, the lure of traveling in the skies, whether as just a means to a place or as an end in and of itself, the activity of flying, per se—airplane travel stories not only endure, they are on the increase. Whether you've survived a crash, been bombed by terrorists, been part and parcel of other scares and frights, been harassed upon departure or on arrival, or even laughed yourself stupid on a flight, your tales are memorable, and it is my personal mission that some of them are repeated here! Introduction to Travel Tales of Airplanes: Terror in the Skies! Part 1 Travel Tales of Airplanes: Terror in the Skies! is divided into two parts simply because there is so much material. Part 1 appears here in the current Travel Tales Collection issue No. 9 Apr 2015 and serves as a general introduction to this subject matter. Part 2 The unabridged, expanded forthcoming ebook Travel Tales of Airplanes: Terror in the Skies, part of The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series, is a larger volume and includes both Parts 1 and 2. The travel stories in Part 1 consist mainly of the personal air travel tales of Michael Brein (me), the author, plus those of a few other contributors. The travel stories in Part 2 are, largely, the air travel stories of world travelers and adventurers whom I’ve encountered and interviewed all throughout my travels over the last four decades to 125 countries. Mostly, your own air travel will typically be exciting, interesting, and without incident, but odd things can and do happen to you at almost any turn along the way in your travels, and air travel is no exception. Unfortunately, the restricted, constricted, and microcosmic environment of the airplane lends itself sometimes to a variety of episodes illustrating the vagaries of the human temperament and behavior that rear their ugliness on airplanes from time to time, whereby air passengers and crew sometimes act and behave in ways that are often atypical and different from how we normally would behave at home. I hope only peaceful and laughable events happen to you in your air travels. I sincerely hope that the negative travel tales of airplanes do not happen to you in your own travels. If something interesting happens to you in your air travels, you deserve to also be in these pages! Got an interesting travel tale for The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series? Please contact Michael Brein at [email protected]. Note: Some stories may be repeated in other eBooks in the series depending on the countries and subjects covered.
Travel Tales Of Michael Brein My Best 100
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Author : Michael Brein, Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: Michael Brein, Inc.
Release Date : 2013-10-03
Travel Tales Of Michael Brein My Best 100 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 2013-10-03 with Travel categories.
The best 100 personal travel tales of travel-adventurer, Dr Michael Brein, the world's first and only travel psychologist. Through harrowing close calls and hilarious misadventures in some of the world's most exotic cultures, Michael Brein examines the in-depth psychological netherworld behind travel. No one has written a travel book heretofore about the psychology of travel quite like this one. This is the expanded (full) edition of the lite version Travel Tales of Michael Brein: My Top 10. Michael Brein is the worlds first and only travel psychologist, who has created a unique series on the psychology of travel as told through the travel tales of more than 1,600 world travelers and adventurers he has interviewed over the last 30 years. My Best 100, the second book in the series, is a collection of Michaels 130 own best personal travel tales, including close calls and great escapes as well as his zaniest and funniest travel experiences. Michael explores his travels, revealing a rare in-depth psychological look at what happens to you when you travel to exotic, strange cultures. My Best 100 promises to be one of the most unusual travel books you will ever read! It might alternately have been named Confessions of a Travel Psychologist or maybe even Tales of the Last Travel Psychologist, since no one has heretofore written about the psychological netherworld of travel as Michael has. When you read Michaels collection of his own travel stories you may wonder if all this could possibly happen to one world traveler. It certainly did! After reading some of his hair-raising and hilarious tales you may further wonder if Michael should have been allowed to travel abroad at all, and if, instead, he should have been locked up in a padded cell with the key being thrown away! You decide! This is the expanded (full) edition of the lite version Travel Tales of Michael Brein: My Top 10.
Travel Tales Of Michael Brein My Top 10
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Author : Michael Brein, Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: Michael Brein, Inc.
Release Date : 2013-10-03
Travel Tales Of Michael Brein My Top 10 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 2013-10-03 with Travel categories.
The top 10 of the best 100 personal travel tales of travel-adventurer, Dr Michael Brein, the world's first and only travel psychologist. Through harrowing close calls and hilarious mis-adventures in some of the world's most exotic cultures, Michael Brein examines the in-depth psychological netherworld behind travel. No one has written a travel book heretofore about the psychology of travel quite like this one. This is the abbreviated (lite) edition of the full version Travel Tales of Michael Brein: My Best 100. Michael Brein is the worlds first and only travel psychologist, who has created a unique series on the psychology of travel as told through the travel tales of more than 1,600 world travelers and adventurers he has interviewed over the last 30 years. My Top 10, the first book in the series, is a collection of Michaels 10 own best personal travel tales, including close calls and great escapes as well as his zaniest and funniest travel experiences. Michael explores his travels, revealing a rare in-depth psychological look at what happens to you when you travel to exotic, strange cultures. My Top 10 promises to be one of the most unusual travel books you will ever read! It might alternately have been named Confessions of a Travel Psychologist or maybe even Tales of the Last Travel Psychologist, since no one has heretofore written about the psychological netherworld of travel as Michael has. When you read Michaels collection of his own travel stories you may wonder if all this could possibly happen to one world traveler. It certainly did! After reading some of his hair-raising and hilarious tales you may further wonder if Michael should have been allowed to travel abroad at all, and if, instead, he should have been locked up in a padded cell with the key being thrown away! You decide! This book is the abbreviated (lite) version of the full, expanded edition, Travel Tales of Michael Brein: My Best 100.
Travel Tales Collections Turkey
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Author : Michael Brein, Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: Michael Brein, Inc.
Release Date : 2015-01-07
Travel Tales Collections Turkey 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 2015-01-07 with Travel categories.
Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Collection, Turkey 1, includes Michael’s own personal travel tales of the sorts of things that can happen to you in your travels in Turkey. Of course, Michael’s Turkey stories are fairly unique to him, but somewhat similar things may happen to you. To Michael, Turkey has been a paradox: On the one hand, he found the Turkish people to be among the most hospitable and kindest people in the world; on the other hand — as in other parts of the world — Turkey has its dangerous and dark side, too. Michael found that most of his travel experiences in Turkey were great, but he quickly learned to keep a wary eye towards the potential negative, which was, fortunately for him, atypical and rare. There are almost always unsettling, rare surprises that do pop up now and again in your travels. Michael hopes they don't happen to you. But if they do, hopefully, you're all the wiser for reading about them in these pages. The Travel Tales Collection, Turkey 1, features stories of incredible hospitality, love, despair, ignominy, war, and more. Whether you are just an armchair adventurer or are actually planning a trip to Turkey, Travel Tales Collection, Turkey 1 will provide you with many interesting and useful insights about the land and people of Turkey. The Travel Tales Collection, Turkey 1, is part of Michael Brein’s Collections travel tales series and contains among the best travel stories from Michael’s huge collection of 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. Travel Tales Collections are groups of very interesting similar travel stories of a kind on a variety of very specific travel subjects, themes, or countries, such as close calls, great escapes, pickpocketing, scams, safety and security in travel, Paris, Morocco, Mexico, and so on. Eventually, several hundred Collections on all sorts of specific travel subjects, themes, and countries will be available on all the major eReaders. Future Collections and other ebooks will also include additional travel stories on Turkey.
Travel Tales
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Author : Michael Brein
language : en
Publisher: Michael Brein
Release Date : 2022-07-31
Travel Tales written by Michael Brein and has been published by Michael Brein this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-31 with categories.
Travel Tales: Getting Away With It -- Or Almost! is about what travelers get away with doing themselves. Yes, they may perpetrate their own schemes on fellow travelers or even the locals themselves. Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't. This book collects the curious along with some extraordinarily funny situations travelers sometimes get themselves into that they'd normally not do at home. This book includes the true tales of what travelers try to get away with while free of the controls of their normal daily lives at home. While traveling, you often strive to be all you can be, good or bad, and sometimes rightly or wrongly so. You behave, after all, often just to see if you can do it -- if you can get away with it! You are an 'Actor' playing roles you'd never dream of doing back at home. You might try foods or drinks you'd never dream of consuming back home. Or you might steal ashtrays, bathrobes, hotel keys, and even license plates as souvenirs that you'd never dream of doing back home. You might try to get into places without paying. You might pretend to be someone you're not, like crashing a party given by a famous movie star. You might try to sneak around the Metro without paying, not because you didn't have the money, but because you just wanted to see if you could do it. Some stories may border on being abject criminal acts like the guy who treated his friends to free dinners by paying for them using fraudulent credit cards. Some travelers smuggle. Some things people get away with are silly, funny, mischievous, or ridiculous even. One man, for instance, poured bubble bath in London's Trafalgar Fountain flooding the square with soap bubbles! Some tales involve doing some not-so-good things to fellow travelers. We don't condone some things that travelers have done, but don't we secretly admire some things some people manage to pull off? For example, some people secretly rooted for DB Cooper who hijacked an airplane over the Pacific Northwest. Travel is often a time to test yourself, to see what you are made of. Oh, we all get away with some harmless silly things that hurt no one. And to some extent, that is who we are. We travel, we grow up, we mature. Yes, we do things we wish we hadn't and that we're not proud of. In our True Travel Tales series, in Pickpockets & Other Thieves, we help you travel more safely and securely, helping you to avoid pickpockets who will happily relieve you of your money, valuables, and passport. In Cons, Scams & Ripoffs we help you steer clear of cons and scams that separate you from your money in a variety of deceitful ways that also cause you untold discomfort and distress. And finally, in this book, Getting Away With It, it's your turn to learn the accounts of the sorts of things that some of us pull off that are not strictly legal and sometimes smack of things that we're not all that proud of doing. Yes, this book may cause you to take a closer look at yourself and see some of the things that you as a traveler do that maybe you wish you hadn't done at all. Pickpockets and other thieves, and con artists and scammers are the sorts of people we want to stay away from. And our getting away with some things ourselves that we may not be all that proud of is a part of the process of growing up and learning what we should avoid doing in the first place or at least grow out of.
Kiplinger S Personal Finance
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994-04
Kiplinger S Personal Finance written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-04 with categories.
The most trustworthy source of information available today on savings and investments, taxes, money management, home ownership and many other personal finance topics.
False Identification
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
False Identification written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations categories.
Hearings Reports And Prints Of The Senate Committee On The Judiciary
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Hearings Reports And Prints Of The Senate Committee On The Judiciary written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Administrative procedure categories.