Avoid These Top 9 Tourist SCAMS In Paris!

everybody wants to have a great time in paris and you should it's a fun city and when there are a lot of tourists there is also a lot of money and when there is a lot of money you have thieves and pickpockets and people running skim so today colleen and i are going to share with you the nine scams to be aware of when you're staying in paris so you keep your money to yourself you don't get your passport stolen you don't get your phone stolen and you have a great time are you ready i'm

ready let's go all right let's go [Music] one of the classic ways people get ripped off or scammed in paris is sitting in a restaurant set your phone on the table and somebody will just you know run by bump a little bit grab it and they're off on a scooter and long gone with your phone all your pictures all your info so you want to be careful about that inside the restaurant's a lot easier but if you're sitting on an outdoor terrace on the edge especially pay attention to where your phone is and just be

mindful about it and the same thing goes with your purse another classic way that people get scammed in paris is called the gold ring scam so what happens is you're walking in paris and all of a sudden someone that is like 10 feet away from you just picks up a gold ring from the floor and say oh my god i found this gold ring is this yours and then they put it in your hand and then you have the gold ring you're like well i don't think so and then they ask you for money they

ask you for 10 euros 20 euros so this is a classic scam in paris the best thing is not to interact with them and say no mercy keep walking and just know that this is a scam and they're gonna try to get money from you another classic game in paris is the fake ticket whether it's a fake metro ticket or a fake museum ticket these guys will stand outside of a metro station or a museum and tell you something like i didn't use this ticket or i bought it but i didn't get to use it

so you can buy it from me for half the price of what is listed 99 of the time the ticket will be expired of course it's a scam and they thought that they bought a ticket that was worth 50 euro for 25 but it's worthless do not buy ticket outside of the official place where you can buy the tickets because most likely you're going to get ripped off so one of the scams that they have in the momart area is around like the moulin rouge plaza gal and things like that when you go to the

shows and i can tell you from experience it's true because years ago my dad took my sister and i to the moulin rouge and of course they was this old gentleman with two beautiful young ladies by his side brought us straight up to the front row and you know of course you wanna some champagne right but what we didn't know is that in all of our excitement we missed the little signs that say that twenty dollar bottle of champagne is going to cost you four or five six hundred dollars or euros so you end up

at the end of the night after the show you've had a good time you've had something to drink and all of a sudden you're hit with an astronomic bill make sure that you negotiate the bottle and have that on record before you take a sip because they're going to get you with that for sure one of the classic scams you'll have in paris is the little bracelets that some of the guys will want to put around your wrist and it happens a lot here in walmart if you go all the way down at the base

of the sacrifice you'll see a lot of guys that are trying to put a little bracelet so here's the here's the game here's how they do it they tell you please come close and everything it's free right and then they put something around your wrist it's a little bracelet and they tie four or five lower knots that are impossible to gal and then you have it around your wrist they'll ask you for some money and you kind of feel stuck because you can't take the thing off your wrist right so that's one of the things

that you want to be careful right here one of the other scams that you're going to find here is sorry to say it but if you go into a restaurant and order an english menu you're going to get different pricing than if you just take the regular menu in french so i suggest that you walk in knowing what you want to order or take the french menu and then ask for the english menu because then you can compare one to the other and make sure that you got the right price for the right meal another

thing that they also do you know you ask for a cup of coffee and they'll bring you a double espresso instead of a single or assume that you want a cafe au lait and suddenly you're paying five or six euros for a cup of coffee that you should have paid two for so make sure that you're paying attention to some of those little things and and of course the best way to avoid that kind of problem is stay away from touristic restaurants but if you do check the regular menu first so we're here in gardiner

and this is one of the places where you're going to find this scam which is all over paris or it's the fake taxis so what happens is that as soon as you walk out of the station or at the airport or any big attractions you have people that will come and say do you need a ride but the vast majority of the time they'll charge you about three to four times more than what a regular taxis will and there are a couple of things first of all it's illegal and second of all it can be

really dangerous because some of these guys are gonna try to rip you off what you'll find in all the big attraction is you'll find what is called a taxi line and there's a big blue sign that will say taxis that's where you want to get a taxis the second thing is all taxis in france are regulated and they actually have the taxi signed on top of the car they have the taxi light on top that actually says taxi with a little green light which means that they're available that's a legal taxi and that is actually

totally cool for you to take another scan that you'll have in most of the big train stations and sometime in the airport in paris they have a map of paris or the metro that is open and they're asking for help right they'll come to you and they say i'm lost and i need some help but what they're trying to do is they're trying to size you up and they're trying to distract you it usually is a team of two the person with the map is there to actually distract you and there's a second person that

is going to come by and snatch your bag or snatch your your phone or do some stuff like that and then the person with the map is going to act oh my god what happened to you but it's like it's it's a scam they actually are working in team and just so be careful of people that are trying to distract you with some big large map because they're probably up to no good one of the things that paris is famous for is the eiffel tower the opera and pig pockets they are all over the place

just make sure that all your personal belonging your mobile phone your wallet everything is in the front pocket or better yet zipped up on the inside don't keep anything on the outside pockets because the metros and the train station can get really crowded and you get elbow to elbow with people and this is what happens is those people are very skilled right they'll use the big crowds and then they'll get close to you and then next thing you know your phone is gone your wallet is gone no i don't want to scare you overall paris

is very safe you all see cops and actually military all over the streets and there are cameras everywhere in the metro like paris is a safe city overall i've been all over the world i can tell you it's one of the safest city but when there are a lot of tourists there is a lot of money and when there's a lot of money it's going to attract actually thieves and that's just the reality of paris so if you just be aware of your surrounding and know where your stuff is and you're going to have a

great time so we want you to fall in love with paris as much as we have yeah and it's a lot easier to do if you don't have any hiccups on your trip yeah so if you take what we've shared with you today to heart and come on over and have a blast you'll have a love affair with paris too yeah paris is safe just be careful there's a lot of money therefore there's a lot of people that are looking to get that money legally or illegally so just be careful and until next time [Music]

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