Comments on: Travel Scams Abroad: How to Outsmart a Scammer When You Are ALONE! https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-deal-with-travel-scams/ A Female Solo Travel Blog | It's not a vacation until you survive it! Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: GRRRL TRAVELER https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-deal-with-travel-scams/comment-page-1/#comment-6659 Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:50:22 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=39683#comment-6659 In reply to Tamika Hill.

What happened with the tour companies? Khao San road?

]]> By: Tamika Hill https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-deal-with-travel-scams/comment-page-1/#comment-6658 Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:12:18 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=39683#comment-6658 Tuk Tuk drivers and tour companies on my recent trip in Thailand.

]]> By: GRRRL TRAVELER https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-deal-with-travel-scams/comment-page-1/#comment-6661 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:41:28 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=39683#comment-6661 In reply to เทพ มิชิแกน.

lol. Exactly. I guess travel would be too easy if not for them. 😉

]]> By: GRRRL TRAVELER https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-deal-with-travel-scams/comment-page-1/#comment-6663 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:40:56 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=39683#comment-6663 In reply to Jay Dollarhide.

I always appreciate your support Jay! =)

]]> By: GRRRL TRAVELER https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-deal-with-travel-scams/comment-page-1/#comment-6665 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:39:57 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=39683#comment-6665 In reply to David Walker.

Agreed David, India sure can keep you on your toes! 😉

]]> By: เทพ มิชิแกน https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-deal-with-travel-scams/comment-page-1/#comment-6660 Wed, 09 Dec 2015 23:45:12 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=39683#comment-6660 Darn Taxis & Tuk Tuk drivers

]]> By: Jay Dollarhide https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-deal-with-travel-scams/comment-page-1/#comment-6662 Wed, 09 Dec 2015 22:00:25 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=39683#comment-6662 Great tips Christine…I commented on your website about the couple of times I was involved in some very minor scams. This was a great video, thanks for the post!

]]> By: jaydtravelphotogJay https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-deal-with-travel-scams/comment-page-1/#comment-6657 Wed, 09 Dec 2015 21:59:24 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=39683#comment-6657 I have been scammed a couple of times…but they were minor. One was in the Philippines at the airport. The person working the x-ray machine checking my carry-on said I had a souvenir that had some coral on it. I kept telling him I didn’t, he either didn’t know English, or pretended he didn’t know and let me pass through. Then he was standing near a bathroom just down from where he checked my bag (I guess he figured it was okay to just walk away from his post), and waved me into the bathroom. He held out his hand for money, and I gave him all the pisos I had. It was only 50 and he wanted more…not thinking very clearly I gave him 35 HK dollars, forgetting the value, which was like 5 USD! He thanked me, took me to the gate where I was to board the plane, the took a quick look in my bag, then let me board my plane. I guess that was more of a bribe than a scam, but pretty much the same thing!

Second time was also minor. I had a tour guide in Vietnam that offered to take me for 3 days around the Mekong Delta, but he wanted 100 USD for the trip. That didn’t include food or lodging. I gave him 200,000 (10 USD) down payment, and he would pick me up the next morning. I started talking to some of the students in the park near Ben Thanh Market in Saigon, and they said that was too much. I figured I would just let him keep the 200,000 and I would do something else. An all day trip with one of the local tour companies cost me about 8 USD for the day to go out to the river. So really, that wasn’t too bad, and he might not even have been scamming me…but it was one of those things that just didn’t feel quite right.

He was a really nice guy, and had some good recommendations in his little handy dandy reference book he carries around (I’m sure you are familiar with this, Christine) and they might have been authentic, but it did seem like a bit too much money. Looking back on it, I almost regret not going with him. He didn’t get my email cancelling my trip with him, and I ran into him a couple of days later. He told me he waited outside near my guesthouse for two or three hours for me. He wasn’t too upset, he had the 200,000 dong, and he just said next time I come back to look him up. Those are really the only times I have gotten scammed, I’ve been pretty lucky, actually…so far!

Thanks for this video, it was a great video, and gives me some great advice for when I do come across some other situations I have had happen to me yet!

]]> By: David Walker https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-deal-with-travel-scams/comment-page-1/#comment-6664 Wed, 09 Dec 2015 21:14:16 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=39683#comment-6664 India set the bar for me… I was fully seasoned and strong from world travel; then I went to India (thinking I could handle anything and had seen everything). I was even prepared knowing it would be different and ‘harder’ there. ALL your advice in the video is sound! I always like these honest travel articles from you.

]]> By: Christine Kaaloa https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-deal-with-travel-scams/comment-page-1/#comment-6652 Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:39:41 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=39683#comment-6652 In reply to Lisa Imogen Eldridge.

Yes @Lisa, taxi drivers can be a consistent problem despite country. THey’re just hard to trust at times.

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