France: Moderate Risk — watch out for petition & pickpocket teams.
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Moderate Risk: Petition & pickpocket teams. Groups posing as deaf/mute petition signers work in teams near the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, and Metro — one distracts you with a clipboard while another lifts your bag or phone. Don't sign anything from a stranger and keep bags zipped in crowds.
France: Moderate Risk — watch out for petition & pickpocket teams. Groups posing as deaf/mute petition signers work in teams near the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, and Metro — one distracts you with a clipboard while another lifts your bag or phone. Don't sign anything from a stranger and keep bags zipped in crowds.
A real, somewhat common scam pattern exists here — check the note above so you can recognize it before it happens to you.
Agree on prices before getting into a taxi, be skeptical of unusually friendly strangers steering you somewhere specific, and never sign anything or accept food/drinks from someone you just met. The single biggest risk for this destination is noted above — general street-smarts cover the rest.
Not at all — millions of tourists visit safely every year. Knowing the one scam pattern that catches people most often is simply the best, cheapest defense there is, since it's designed specifically to look harmless until it's too late.
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