If you travel more, you will always encounter various experiences of being cheated. Whether at home or abroad, businesses will always try their best to trick tourists. Every major tourist city will have different fraud methods. Not everyone is willing or willing to "pay" for these scams. What you can do is to avoid these things happening to yourself.

First of all, this is not to denigrate a city. I just want to describe some methods of "cheating money" that I have encountered and seen myself.

Deception 1: Times Square with swords and shadows First of all, let's make it clear here that it is not illegal to make money through your own labor. But personally, these "performances" should not be forced to "reward". Or according to the viewer's evaluation.

There are two main "performance" techniques in Times Square.

And coser's first street draft, before going to new york from Orlando. A friend reminded me that there is a similar "technique" on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. Many "performers" will dress up as celebrities or movie characters and take photos with others in the street. Many people may think it's okay to take a picture with him. However, as long as you take the initiative to take photos with these Coser. You will have to pay for the photos.

Sheng Hui is $20, thank you, boss.

Second, a group of black brothers performing in the street performed in a small open space. The most classic, and what attracted me this time, is a group. The zodiac is the performance of kangaroo black brothers.

Simply put, their performance means is vault. Various bouncing and mixed street dance performances. Finally, we will perform "kicking" and skip the multi-audience drama. But for a long time, they have been reducing their exaggeration. Then I will look for "volunteers" under the stage (I prefer to say "looking for prey"). Explain to the audience "honestly" that this is "seeking rewards." The found "volunteers" basically didn't even have a chance to say no, so they called seven or eight people out with the black brothers, and finally only four people bent down to let them jump over.

If you are called up, give me 20 dollars.

Deception 2: The soundtrack of Hollywood Black Brother was stopped by a black brother at the walk of fame in Los Angeles. He also greeted me, saying that he was a street singer and rapper, and produced his own "personal soundtrack album". That's right. This is another classic scam-singing a spicy chicken rap CD that is not as good as the level. As long as you pick up such a CD by hand, you should give at least 20 yuan to the "singing artist".

If you are unlucky enough to accept his offer, it will be as light as $20, or his managers, fans, bosses and producers will all come out to start Diss with you. Then it may not be something that can be solved with 20 yuan. And the 20 yuan mentioned here is only the minimum consumption, which will basically rob you of more than 20 yuan.

The first time I met such a thing, of course I refused, but I didn't expect him to have another hand. When he stressed several times that the CD should be given to me for free, he had no choice but to accept it, otherwise he would be tired of following you all the time. Before sending it to me, he also happily thanked me for liking his music and said that he would sign the cd. As a result, this cd is free, and the signature is 20 yuan. Thank you.

At that time, I had 10 thousand alpacas in my heart. Because I won't deal with such a thing for the first time, I finally got $65,438+00.

Deception 2: Mexico was fined for speeding. A few years ago, my friends and I went to Cancun, Mexico, a famous holiday paradise. I decided to rent a car to go to go on road trip because the scenery there is pleasant and the car rental fee is cheap. It takes about an hour to drive from downtown Cancun to the Pyramid, and the road along the way is between the national highway and the expressway in China. On the way, a Mexican "traffic policeman" (actually, I don't know if it is uniform) stopped our car. First, he said he wanted to check his papers and tricked me into giving him his driver's license and the translated car rental documents. Then he said I was speeding and needed to pay a fine of $200. If I do, I will return my domestic driver's license. If you don't pay it, you will go to the local police station to get your driver's license back in a few days.

At that time, it was also awkward, because in North America and other places, motorcycle traffic police did check the speeding of vehicles, which was not as advanced as domestic cameras. His poor English didn't understand where the police station was, so he had to bargain for mercy. 200 yuan is too much, and we two college students have little money; It's my first time in Mexico and I don't know the rules. Can you bend the rules? In the end, I moved with emotion and reason, and the transaction was made at 100.

The more I think about it afterwards, the more wrong it is. Obviously, there should be no speeding. The white couple in front drives faster than us (the antique car they drive is impressive). Why did they stop us? Traffic fines can be negotiated and suspicious? A speeding fine of $200?

There is no doubt about fraud. People who specialize in picking Asian faces dare not offend the United States!

Summarize the tricks of swindlers, and emerge one after another. This sentence is really in mind.