When you have a secure in your room there is no motive so that you ** walk the streets of Athens with a bunch of credit score cards and all of your cash. While you stroll down the road and you're carrying a purse or handbag, walk close to the buildings and keep your purse on the building facet, not the road aspect. I was strolling by means of the metro building after i felt a hand hear my coat. This is a brand new metro scam that ** occur if you find yourself shopping for tickets or including to your transportation card. It's also possible to learn my article Defeating the Pick-pockets which ** explain different ways of avoiding getting pickpocketed. If you want use the decoy wallet trick that I write about at Defeating the Pick-pockets and they'll take that **o after somebody who does not even know decide-pockets exist. Those of you strolling around with backpacks, a thief ** unzip it and be gone earlier than you even knew he was there and in these tight situations are where it's most pro**o occur.

But actually it is healthier to take precautions so no person ** take your purse and put your valuables in a safer place. A professional purse snatcher is best at what he does than you might be at maintaining him from doing what he does. Any suggestions given are by no means intended to be a substitute for skilled medical re**endation. If you find yourself in this case, as scary as it may seem, these guys are an anachronism, the last of the bars that made their cash when the US sixth Fleet sailed into port and sailors with pockets full of money roamed the streets searching for booze and women. There are a couple of avenue scams that you might want to co**rate on. But principally this sort of crime takes place very late at night when there are few folks around by desperate immigrants. Other people went to try to help but the bag was gone. The bottom line is when the man approaches you on the road and invites you to his bar simply tell him no thank you as in all probability ni**y nine out of 100 folks do. The primary and most popular is the man with the cafe/bar who asks you the time and then invites you to his bar or cafe, relying on his perception of what kind of person you are.

He normally asks the place you're from, tells you he has a cous**m there and invitations you for a drink/coffee. A variation of this is the man who takes you to his good friend's journey **pany to purchase ferry tickets to a quiet island and he tells you there are no tickets or there isn't a ferry and sells you a fancy hotel in Mykonos and a cruise. You say you need to go to a selected restaurant and the taxi driver tells you it's closed, or it has gotten dangerous, and takes you to another, usually an expensive fish restaurant in Mikrolimono on the sea, the place he makes a proportion of what you order. Being a taxi driver in Athens just isn't a simple life. Oh and the best way to not get choose-pocketed between the airport and your lodge is to take a taxi door-to-door. Another taxi trick is to show the meter on 2 which makes it run twice as fast. The two most famous ones are the lodge and restaurant trick the place you get in a cab and whenever you **rm him which resort you'll they **rm you that you don't need to remain there as a result of it is a bordello, or in a nasty neighborhood, what is sports and take you to a different hotel they know of.

You could have your digital camera bag at your toes in a cafe 10 ft from the ** table and suddenly discover it's gone and are available to the realization that the person who took it must have used a fishing pole to get it. But typically the methods are extra simple, for instance someone may **e to your desk selling Kleenex and put them down on top of your cell phone. Once you do not buy the Kleenex they depart along with your cell phone. If you have to carry a handbag or purse buy one with steel cables that make it unimaginable to cut. But a handbag makes you a goal and since your lodge is probably downtown and also you most likely won't be greater than a 20 minute walk from it at anytime, ask your self if you actually need to carry a handbag with all of your junk in it. You could also be strolling on a buying avenue and snip-snip the straps to your handbag have been reduce and the man(or woman) disappears into the crowd.