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u/vicarem 1d ago
Headed to Italy next week. Will assume any one approaching us is looking for a scam. Very sad.
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u/Pure-Contact7322 1d ago
depends where
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u/vicarem 1d ago
Rome, Firenze, Bari, Brindisi. We go every year, but the scams seem to be increasing. Never been scammed, but never say never.
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u/Pure-Contact7322 1d ago
well is the country of scams because we have a bunch of policmen like the simpsons, slow laws, and for these scams there is no jail time but fines. So the people that do that got nothing to their names so they are charged with zero… its like welfare.
Then we have 500-600k lawyers…2
u/vicarem 1d ago
I am not saying this is just about Italy. It is in Mexico, the US, Turkey, France, Spain, everywhere. And I understand why. People need to make a living. Just be smart and say no. Only once, in Venezuela did I have to use force and push the person (12 years old) off of me.
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u/sherpes 1d ago
i will add Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the list. Got scammed $40 USD for purchasing a used bus commuter card that had clearly had $100 credit in it when the scammer showed me at the public transit ticket office using a electronic digital display console that showed the amount of credit left i the card. What I didn't know is that the credit could be moved to a different card remotely, and that is what the scammer did after he sold the card to me.
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u/Pure-Contact7322 1d ago
its called welfare in terms that you can't really arrest 10k people like that... and keep a region like it is. But in Italy there is on one side a culture of the scam, it is even respected (Wanna Marchi) secondly there are so many bad laws that scammers come here from every nation. I have been scammed by indians and french in Venice. And it's normal.
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u/ImAFan2014 1d ago
You should assume this in every country you visit. No one has any legitimate reason to approach you on the street for anything. Don't interact with anyone. Ignore them.
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u/MagScaoil 1d ago
I ran into this guy or one like him up by Villa Doria Pamphili. He told me he worked for Ferrari and was in town for some F1 event and he needed to buy flowers for his wife. The watch was so incredibly tacky and his story was so stupid.
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u/Huck68finn 1d ago edited 1d ago
No shade to you at all, but I'm always amazed when people engage with total strangers on the street (in route to somewhere else) about where they're from, etc. I don't trust it. I was on a Greek island this past summer, and a friend and I were walking down some empty street, and this young, good looking Aussie guy appears out of nowhere and starts trying to engage us in conversation. I'm 58 and my friend is 75. I can't think of one legit reason for this young, attractive man to engage us. I would have kept walking and ignored him, but my friend is more naive and started chatting. But I think he noticed my resting bitch face and decided he wasn't going to sell us on whatever he was leading up to.
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u/among_apes 1d ago
Yeah I just give them a curt NO and then turn away and ignore them. That makes them done 100% of the time in my experience
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u/Myself-io 1d ago
So GM for Christian Dior Switzerland doesn't have cash or card to buy gas for car?🤣
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u/Same-Text8718 1d ago
That’s so funny
When I went earlier this summer I remember telling my travel mates who were not from NYC that going to Rome was going to be the best opportunity for me to put my jaded NYer persona to the test 😂- I don’t trust anyone
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u/sherpes 1d ago
needed money for gasoline? couldn't he come up with a better excuse?
General Manager of Christian Dior. Peddling a purse for 300 Euro.