Common Ways Scamming Tourists in İstanbul

2023-06-09

Fraud with Emotional Exploitation

Unregistered, unchecked individuals or companies produce scenarios to get low prices and more and start exploiting you with manipulation. Boredom with grievance stories!

First of all, it is presented to you as quality service, good human relations, moral attitudes, and of course affordable prices, then telling you a tragic story, in the beginning, scammers asking debt money! If they can't reach their goal, they will start to threaten and blackmail! Remember, they are in different minds, and what they do is profit.

Cab İstanbul likes price competition, it always brings quality, and a price arises depending on the conditions of the country and the quality of service provided. If the tourists visiting Turkey prefer such people to get cheaper service, it would hurt us too.

Below are some of the incidents related to tourist scams happening.

If you want to avoid possible scams during your business trip or a vacation in Istanbul, the first thing you should do is rent a car with a driver from Cab Istanbul. If you are using the Istanbul airport transfer service as soon as you land at one of the airports in Istanbul, your driver will tell you what to avoid in the city.

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Beware of These Scams in Istanbul

If you are coming abroad ( Turkey) as a tourist and do not know the city you are going to very well, you should pay attention to some fraud methods in order not to be in a difficult situation in İstanbul (in small cities there is not much fraud). Otherwise, you may suddenly find yourself in unpleasant situations and your carefully planned trip may hurt you!

Attention to Taxi Drivers!
Attention To Fake Cops at the Market
Map Dealers Would-be Thieves
Pay Attention When Using Your Credit Card
Attention Your Camera
Attention, Is It Really A Hotel Attendant?
Attention, Shoe Shiner
Attention to Your Valuable Items on Public Buses!
Attention, Fake Gems
Attention, Fake Perfume, and Bags
Attention, Club Scam in Istanbul

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Drinking With Beautiful Girl

Nightclub scam that causes you to pay a drink bill of hundreds or even thousands of euros. Thieves love it because it is easy and the risks of identification, arrest, trial, and punishment are almost nonexistent. That is definitely happening in Istanbul. As you stroll around Sultanahmet Square and Istiklal Street on your own in the evenings, a well-dressed man approaches you who speaks English. He asks you to take a picture with his cell phone, or he makes up another story.

He has a conversation with you, then suggests you have a drink together. (He talks about beautiful girls if you're a boy) To gain your trust, he can first take you to a normal place. This could be to buy you dinner.

As soon as you sit in the nightclub, women, and maybe other men, sit at your table and order champagne (cheap wine that often looks like champagne). As for the invoice, you will be expected to pay and may be equal to the total amount of money on your side; Maybe your credit card will be extorted and a large sum will be charged. They usually take all the money you have or have access to. If you protest the fraud, you could be beaten in the backroom or even threatened with death until you agree to pay.

How Taxi Drivers Scamming Tourists in Istanbul

Taxis in Istanbul are one of the cheap, easy, and convenient ways of transportation, there are more than 22,000 taxis roaming the city, only the fool thinks that all drivers are not honest. Growing cases of tourists stumbling while riding a taxi in Istanbul are spotters. It is always good to have a level of doubt and diligence. To start with this article we must first know the price of a taxi in Istanbul.

Istanbul Taxi Drivers Scam! How İt Can Be Prevented?

Prevent it: Dear reader, do not judge a whole country by a scammer because someone was exposed to the scene or because of this article, there are many already wonderful taxi drivers. İstanbul is a wonderful city! Also, Turkish people have a nice tourist culture, the purpose of this article is not to be vulnerable to accidents because of your kindness.

Important advice: Before getting into the taxi, take note of the license plate number of the taxi, there are license plate numbers written in large numbers that distinguish each commercial taxi from the other against forgotten items and fraud. The taxi drivers can be reliable, honest drivers, nevertheless we recommend quickly saving the taxi plate in your brain or smartphone

Information: There are two types of commercial taxi yellow colors and this price is like the one we explained above, while the Blue (Turquoise taxi) is higher than the price of the first by a simple and make a difference and can be ordered by application

Switch Turkish Money

Monument: In the blink of an eye is switching currency while you are busy with something else Here's explaining the process of the event carried out by some taxi drivers in Istanbul suppose for example that the value of your trip to somewhere was 15 Turkish lira and you give him the value of 50 Turkish TL, will move Light (as usual) and away from your eyes by replacing the 50-sheet with the five-class paper (ready to have in advance) and will extend his hand to you waiting for the remaining 10 TL while you are waiting for the rest of the fifty you will get confused by this thing since you are not familiar with the types of Turkish securities You will end up paying 60 TL at 15 TL. Unfortunately, they are creative in this matter and hundreds have been subjected to this monument and the reason that the fifty paper is similar to the five paper they have in terms of color and shape and this is one of the most famous scams of taxi drivers to tourists in Istanbul/Turkey

The solution: To avoid falling into this type of case, always make sure you have a small change and even coins that you need to ride the taxi so that you can pay the taxi driver cash. To pay an exact requested amount is a good way to avoid a scam in Istanbul.

Taxi Driver And Fake Money

Monument: Again suppose your destination was 17 TL but you gave him 20 TL, the driver will search inside the taxi and in the car drawer to look for a change but after a lengthy search will appear one TL claiming that he found this lira only and give it to you to forgive him The rest of the money that remained (puts you in front of the status quo, it is true that the remaining amount is not large, but this process was carried out with you and with others and so on until rebelling and doing what is greater for this does not allow him to do such a thing, give the value of your desire better than laugh to you

Solution: You have two solutions first if you do not have a chance you can let him go there is no other solution, especially if the value is low is true that my words are contrary to the above, but maybe in a place where no exchange and no possibility of obtaining money for you and will continue to work second, sit in the car and do not get out of it and ask him to go to the nearest exchange shop nearby in order to exchange currencies and get smaller values and you will be surprised at the speed at which you will get smaller cash values to give you the rest of your money… Also do not enter a taxi in Turkey without change

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Roberta Close

We were in Istanbul on December 30, 2021, we were trying to have fun , two guys say they are toursit, they were looks gentleman, and they were handsome two Iraqi boy. Just suggestion dont trust who contacted contact you on the street.

2022-01-05

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Most Popular Way Tourist Scams in Turkey
Unrequited Help At Vending Machines

The vending machine you approach to buy train or subway tickets or withdraw money from an ATM may seem unfamiliar to you. It's easy to figure out how it works after a few minutes of viewing. In this short period of time, you may appear somewhat confused, not knowing what to do. If someone around approaches you and tries to help, be careful! ATMs in different countries can be confusing. If you have difficulties, enter the bank and ask the staff to assist. Tourist scammers keep an eye on ATMs or ticket vending machines in tourist attractions. When they have someone in need of their eyes, they approach them to help free of charge, as an ordinary citizen would do.

Withdraw Money From ATM

Sacm By Distraction

While you are trying to discover the city in good weather, someone comes close to you and draws your attention by asking a question or telling you about the beauty of the surroundings! This can be a well-dressed man or woman. Meanwhile, the swindler who managed to get your attention starts to occupy you. Perhaps he may even ask you for trivial help. At this very moment, when the other colleague passes by you, he grabs your backpack or camera and disappears. The best way to avoid this situation is not to leave your bag and camera unattended. Whatever happens, is to act calmly and carefully

Tourist Distraction

Quite Cunning And Professional Scams

Among the tourism scams, the easiest and cleanest way for thieves is to take your wallet that you put in your backpack while you are walking or window shopping. May they take your bag and leave a similar bag full of trashy paper in its place. Although it is mostly seen in the Aegean and Marmara regions such as Istanbul and Antalya, which have very intense tourism, it is a simple and general form of fraud that can happen anywhere in the world. As you always do, you look left and right with a fan, maybe you are walking, maybe you are at a busy touristic place to buy souvenirs for your loved ones, a scammer comes after you and takes the valuable item in your bag as if nothing has happened. It is impossible for you to notice these scams who are quite cunning and professional.

Thieves At Busy Touristic Places

Fake Travel Websites

In today's digital world, you can find every service and product on the internet easily and much more affordable. The decrease in costs on businesses is automatically reflected in the prices of the products and services they offer. The tourism sector in Turkey has become the new target of fraudsters, causing many tourists to suffer in recent years. Tourism activities and fraudulent and fake travel agencies also set their eyes on this sector. Hotel, tour, transfer, chauffeured car service, excursion, etc. with fake accounts on the internet. They sell agency services.

Sharing good media from social media networks
Copying hotel and travel agency websites,
Offer remarkable promotions
Offer a discounted price,
Do not promise much better service than it is.

Attention Service Provider

1) Only travel agencies affiliated with TURSAB and approved by the Ministry of Tourism can do the holiday package, hotel reservation, daily tour, cruise, ticket sales, and travel organization, and tourism activities in general.

2) Each legally operating travel agency has a TURSAB document number and a new digital plate system on their websites. "Therefore, if that agency is legal or not, when you click on that barcode, you can see the full record of the agency, who is the owner, is it really certified or not, how many years it is an agency.

3) For Airport Transfer and Chauffeured Car Rental, the Ministry of Transport (UEDTS) Approved D2 and A1 Certificate should be checked.

4) The Ministry of Transport automatically commences travel insurance for a transport service you will receive from a company registered through UEDTS.

Commercial Working Permission; D2 and A1 certificates are given to real and legal persons who want to perform their urban and intercity transportation duties. With the D2 authorization certificate, trips can be arranged without complying with a certain time schedule. Require passenger insurance Compulsory Seat Insurance, as individual accident insurance, ensures the lives of passengers and officers against all kinds of accidents that may happen inside or outside the vehicle during the journey Compulsory Seat Insurance is "life insurance" in terms of death and injuries, while it has the characteristics of "property insurance" in terms of treatment costs and means the implementation of the relevant provisions. Do not get on vehicles that are not insured abroad

Trustable Turkish Companies
Why Take a Service From a Company With good Feedback?

Any registered Turkish company is regularly audited and its employees are registered. Service in the tourism sector is based on human power, and human always makes mistakes. A registered company is obliged to comply with the rules that will immediately correct possible human-induced mistakes due to its responsibility. Otherwise, strict terms will be imposed.

So when tourists face some issues in the airport or during their stay in Turkey if the company that they deal with is an authorized company and the tourist police will be in charge immediately to solve your problem as you reported to the tourism ministry, which keeps you safe during your travel.

Are Turkish Companies More Expensive?

Initial pricing may be more expensive than an indifferent service provider!
But the quality of service you receive in the end the confidence you feel, the right information (no story is produced to cheat the tourist)
Keep your time and money. This means that a correctly priced service costs less.
What happens if a vehicle is taken from an unauthorized foreign driver?
Police controls seize the vehicle you get on, which will cause you to stay on the road.
You and your driver will be fined; you will lose time and money in passport control when you return to your country.
An Arab businessman was kidnapped in Istanbul, where he came to meet a woman whom he met through social media. The businessman was held hostage, rescued by the operation.