Rome fraud experience to remember

To Rome before, everyone told me: Rome thief rampant, and specifically at the Chinese people or Asian underarm, careful exercise often travel, often zoujianghu or seen point waves, and Italy to me, so far still blank, attractions, so bold unaccompanied on the road.

Rome is a city of history and culture of the city, than I've ever been to other European cities such as Paris, Berlin, etc, have gone.

Ancient Roman and Renaissance architectural monuments and left large numbers of art treasures make. After the feast their eyes, the body tired after the visit, and not to the accident.

¨ Experience unexpected

Rome City Centre in the North there is a large and beautiful park, called Villa Borghese (Bo vengesai Villa Park).

At the end of Piazza del Popolo visitors (people's square), I'm going to walk through the Park, to Via delle Belle Arti Street tram ride 19 road back to my hotel. Because basic walk away one day, I Park in the shade, a small lake sit for a long time, one side is the rest, look at my new books about Rome. About an hour later, at about 6 pm when I got up around the Lake, to more than one hundred meters away from a tram stop.

Lake, river rafting on the above, the Lake there are swans, ducks and Mandarin Duck, or a stroll or a swim.

Not many people around, very quiet. As I side slow, watching the Lake small animals, a strange man seemingly inadvertently passed me, also stopped by the Lake. He glanced at the Swan ', I said nothing. I am dumbfounded subconscious stopped. This man gabble said a few words, I understand that he was not a standard of English, to the effect that he was from Hungary, where I was. Then I made a terrible mistake: I'm connected to a port. But we didn't say a few words, I do not know when, a second man suddenly appears from behind, claiming to be a policeman, and quick to produce a so-called documents. At a glance, I only had a chance to see him in the "documents" seem to be similar to the flag of Italy, at least the pattern I see the green bar, and possibly "Polizai" (meaning man police). Then, this person claims to check our passport (Passport control). At this point, the first man of color face panic, but soon took out his "Passport". Since the first time to Italy, in this country do not know much about this "police" identity was not in doubt, also produced their own passports.

At this point, the third man appeared, also claimed that the police, policeman, and quickly shake up "documents".

He come to me and said: "here is Rome, drug traffickers, dangerous! beware! we are routine checks." At this time, my first reaction is: around their eyes first person shoot? do they suspect that the first person with me for drugs more easily?

Check out passport, the passport back to me after the second person claims to check the cash and the wallet.

At this point, the first person Cook took out a big pile of dollars in cash to the "police". This move confused me, I meekly took out my wallet, one of the police officers also act sniff my wallet. They put me out of the cash from the wallet, give me back the wallet, and inventory of cash. Inventory of finished, put the point before cash folded over to me and asked: "is there?" and I hesitated a moment, but I didn't put in the purse of a sum of us $ also took out, this is also a major error, because at this point, I still think they are really the police!

Of course, after some inventory and carefully "check", they just put this pile of dollars folded back to me and repeated consideration: "Please put money away!" the whole process, they kept talking to me, asking questions, making me too busy to pay attention and consideration of any irregularity.

At this point, they found I have a credit card.

So, one immediately pulled out a cell phone, dial a few figures: "2222 *", and then gave it to me and said: "we want to check your credit card account, this is our Bank of enquiries, please enter your password." This requirement makes me somewhat surprised and upset, so I do not remember your password and an excuse to reject him. He did not give up, I repeatedly asked for the password, I wouldn't give. Finally, they gave up. Temporary break up, they also politely and I shook hands, and once again I carefully (it's ironic!). At this point, one could make me a clue to be timely detected I overlooked: when I want to move on and leave with their orientation, they block me, and motioned to me in the opposite direction to leave.

Finally, these individuals entangled, I heaved a sigh of relief.

But there are disturbed. I die a die, everything in that money is in front of my face, inventory and back, it should be Yes. However, there is nothing wrong. I walked back then, a series of detailed step-by-step jumped into the my mind: two one of the "police" in check my second money, it seems to turn it around, while another "police" is he turned and direction. And after this "police" has been repeated several times, the inventory and the individual notes top to down to watch again and again, it might have a delay time. While at the same time, another "police" the first person to pull to one side, with the body block my sight, seem to do not allow me to see things. Moreover, given that they suspected that drug-trafficking, why have I found strictly on pine? in a "police" asked me to provide credit card password, another "police" and put the first person to leave. Details of this series showed an ominous. I immediately pulled out all the money, found: purse with RMB, US dollar and Euro stack of notes, the large amount of US dollars and euros are gone! second dollars, all 100 denomination was changed to the dollar, in addition to cover a piece!

However, this

Is already late, they had already vanished! disappear with them, I'm all good Italy!

¨ Alarm

Back to the hotel, I put the matter with the hotel's people said and heard about police addresses, the night went to the police.

Come to the police station, is a nine in the evening. There are three or four guards at the gate in chatting, I asked: "who will be in English?" one woman answered and said, "I will!" so I I have to report their meaning. She took me to the inside another small police there. The little police and a telephone, presumably his supervisor or watch officers there. Put down the phone, and he led me to another Office. Here is a man wearing a suit of Italy is the computer on the keyboard. Small police let me outside, and left.

And so, hit the suit between police, he walked out with English asked me: "you've lost money?," I said "Yes.

"He asked:" do you speak English? German? French? Spanish?, "I said:" in English. "When he gave me two table, said:" to form, in duplicate, English! "and then he went on to hit the keyboard went inside.

This is a case table, no personal information, lost something, time and place.

I filled out, and it said: "I filled in. "He gestured me in. I gave him the table and in front of his desk chair and sit down. He looked at the table, and sign his name, and then "bang, bang," to knock with date stamp, to which a copy to me said: "this is for you, O.K., Finish! "I understand:" Finish?! " He said: "Yes, Finish, end, Ciao (Italian language ' goodbye ' mean)!", I asked: "do you have questions to ask?" he said, "No, no English!" In short: I don't speak English very well, only very little by little, you end up, you can go!

I was very disappointed to go out and see the small police, I used the English told him: "I encounter is impersonating police liar, not this form on write simple thieves and robbers!" the little police still have a sense of responsibility, after listening to my description, and picked up the phone and it said that a pass, and then he took me a second to suit there.

This suit out of paper, with small police gabble, small police told me: "you put your after writing it, and you tell me!"

At this time the suit may have knocked on his keyboard, is doing nothing.

He could feel that my writing is too slow, from time to time on my side, and twice asked me: "Do you have problem?" Finally, I finished, he made one for me, as usual, is: "O.K., finish, Ciao!"

¨ Others ' stories

As most of the cash lost, I can only end in Italy in advance of travel documents and tickets, but also in the little thief gave me 100 dollars and some pieces of small denominations of the euro, is enough for me to buy a train ticket back to Germany (I have to travel by air in Germany).

The second day in the morning, I came to the railway station.

In my queue to buy tickets, the edge of the window to two Chinese girls. A look at a fellow, I hasten to say hello to them. Originally they were last night has just returned from Venice to Rome, but one in the train had the whole luggage stolen! they sit or "Eurostar" first class. Today, they are to handle the claims of the railway station. Accordingly, we train station in Rome, in the Hall of scold the bad thief and Italy!

Then I put my experience tells me that a friend of mine.

The friend said that his two colleagues in Milan has a similar experience with me. His colleagues is two people, driving, parking experience. The other is not to say that, instead of checking the drug fancy wrappings called care care financial protection for foreigners: check and verify your cash, the same loss considerably. But they still lives and works in Europe for many years, smiting fiends!

It seems that not only Rome, Italy has a similar case, according to my friends, this may be an organized criminal group.

Indeed, can give you credit card idea, certainly not one or two for wool thief.

Now write down my experiences, not fear, it is hoped that future diuchou to Italy's friends, lessons learned, prevent recidivism.

¨ Lessons

§ Rome not only a thief, a thief and a liar, prevention is complete!

§ Such case not only in Rome, Italy may encounter!

§ To go by train, car, ship or waiting, walking, baggage must be in their own sight, or within reach!

§ City tour don't put all your money to take it in, would rather believe the hotel dude, put the money to stay in the hotel safe!

§ Best streets in action, do not fall into sin.

A man in Rome encounter unexpected risk than a group of people!

§ If you had one, not to people less too!

§ Don't talk to strangers, especially the other active and yeah circumstances!

§ I encountered such a situation, you can:

Pretending to understand, even if someone told you to speak Chinese!

Shouting, if entanglement!

Or tell someone: check can, but not in this, go to the police station.

However, not on the other side of the car!

§ Don't trust anyone, even if he claims to be the police!

§ Don't believe that the local police (of course is true police) to do anything!

§ Italy will not many people in English, even in big cities such as Rome, even in Rome railway station information desk! if you are a little bit of simple Italian, even in French, may be of great help.