If you visit Italy avoid restaurants with exposed Italian flags, they know that tourists have no idea of what italian food tastes or looks like and will overcharge you for frozen food and/or fake italian food like spaghetti meatballs and fettuccine alfredo.

They should also mention the "fix your car" scam that happens in the U.S. and happened to me. Some guys will notice a dent I. Your car and offer to fix it on the spot for cheap. Then they do a crappy job and demand a couple hundred bucks, and if you don't have it, demand to follow you to an ATM to get it. Yes, I was VERY young and VERY naive.

I was in Cairo in 2014 and a taxi ride of maybe 2.5 miles amounted to $50. It should have been more like $2-3. The driver got extremely aggressive and wouldn't let me out of his car. Had to fight my way out. Similar thing, in Marrakech - a simple market meal and the stall owner asked for something like $150, luckily a local guy helped me out and chastised the stall owner. I paid 55 cents.

Well, looks like I’m out of business now (kidding, people)

Anyone who travels should bookmark this article! Someone should make it into a handy printable PDF file to help travelers memorize these scams. The "dropped wallet" reminds me of something my grandfather told me. He was a conductor on the elevated trains in Chicago. There was a problem with pickpockets in the train stations, so the transit company put up signs, "Beware of pickpockets." The sign made the problem worse. Men who saw the sign would instinctively pat their the pocket where they kept their wallet, to make sure it was still there, thus showing the pickpockets exactly where to find the wallet! The transit company removed the signs.

I don't think that this article could've been made at a more inopportune time

I think a lot of these can be avoided if you try to look as little like a tourist as possible. The scammers might jump on the obvious looking ones first.

The Eurocash ATM machines that charge you a 18 Euro fee if you withdraw cash with a non local card. To be found in tourist traps all over Europe.

Useful information, however, the dropped wallet one works only if it's designed similarly as yours. I know from experience (not scam, thankfully, just really came across genuinely lost wallets and never had the urge to check mine. Picked it up instead and handed it to the shop keeper, or whoever manages the place where I happened to find it.)

Best thing I've seen is people sewing a zippered pocket on their undershirt's chest to keep their money. Then they wear a dark shirt over that and you can't tell. Zero% chance of getting pickpocketed. Then you keep your fake wallet with very little money in it to give in case you get mugged.

All of those and thousands more can happen here in Mexico. Almost all of my foreign friends that had come here have stories about scamming.

From Barcelona: Never have I ever seen the cashier one, not done to me or seen it being done

I went to Barcelona with a friend. Two Roma women tried to sell us a flower and all they wanted in return was a 'new' penny. We were artfully led away from each other- I told my scammer I had no pennies and showed her a handful of change, offering her a euro. She declined and kept nattering at me... My friend, however, opened her purse to show the woman she had no pennies. I finally managed to evade my assailant and made my way towards my friend- suddenly the two women scurried away. We only realised they'd stolen 300 Euros from her purse when we went to pay at a restaurant a little later. Ended up at a police station with a "United Nations" of victims who had all sorts stolen off them... the police were busy. We ended up logging a report and trying to identify the two women in a mugshot book with more than a hundred Roma women's photos. Needless to say, we couldn't ID anyone with certainty.

The ring scam happened to me in Paris, 10 years ago...Place Vendôme where almost all the great jewellers have their shops...the guy tried to sell me the story that somebody must have lost this oversizend golden ring after buying it...

Wow, just... wow.

This makes me sad that people will treat other people like this. Just like I said makes me really sad