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A PARIS SCAM
Watch out for your Lucky Day

You’re walking in Paris, just a stroll, enjoying the chance good weather. Maybe along the Seine. Minding your own business. A girl passes you and suddenly bends down in front of you, squeeling excitedly. You now watch her as she picks up a gold wedding band from the sidewalk. She turns and exclaims it’s her “lucky day”. From her worn clothes of the street, you get that she could use a few lucky days. She shows you the ring and asks if it’s gold. She hands it to you. You look it over. It appears to be a heavy gold wedding band with karat marks on the inside. Yeah, it must be. You hand it back, maybe feeling a little sorry for the fellow who lost his wedding band, but it’s the poor girl’s lucky day, not yours. Until she pushes the ring into your hand again, holding her hands together like a prayer and saying “for God” she should pass the good luck to you. It is your lucky day. Then she asks you for money. After all the ring should be worth a lot more than the ten Euros she can buy herself a few meals with. You said it was gold, right?

Give the ring back. After all, it’s her lucky day.

A old famous Paris scam. Traveling in Europe is full of scams. Some of the street variety. The old standard “Three Card Monty” the game with the pea or bent card you can never win. The winning Lottery Ticket that if only you will give a little cash for now, you can collect the winnings. The helpless couple who will surround you at the ATM asking if their card will work in it, while you’re distracted will try to score your card and pin number. The antique porcelain with the worn image of Lola Montez you discover in that cute little shop you’re sure will make you famous on Antiques Roadshow, but find out they make by the dozen in a Prague basement. Some are the institutional variety. The tourist tour to places that are made up. The full tank of gas offered by car rental companies, which they sell you with the promise that it is guaranteed to be at or less than the going gas station price, but they keep all the extra in the tank whether it’s empty or half-full.

Keep your hand on your wallet and hope for the lucky day of a little good weather. © Bargain Travel Europe

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