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The Most Common Grifts in Istanbul: Part I
During my five-day stay in the former capital of Turkey this October, I was able to witness several acts of swindling and saw a lot of grifters there. Although the tricks they use are pretty old, plenty of tourists still fall into the swindlers' trap.
The most common and probably most well-known is pretty simple: A shoe shiner (allegedally by accident) drops his shoe brush in front of you and pretends to not notice it. When you, as a kind person, point that out to him, he immediately starts shining your footwear (even if you wear sandals) out of ''pure gratefullness'' and tries to distract you with a conversation. After that, he obviously demands a lot of money and becomes pretty agressive, sometimes even following poor tourists to their hotel and threatening them with vengeance. Fortunately, I was always quite leery of strangers and just ignored the shoe brush everytime someone dropped it in front of me. They quickly picked it up then and sought other tourists. The scheme is so common that I once saw three such shoe shiners in mere 40 minutes! It must be quite a monotonous occupation.
The Most Common Grifts in Istanbul: Part I
During my five-day stay in the former capital of Turkey this October, I was able to witness several acts of swindling and saw a lot of grifters there.
Although the tricks they use are pretty old, plenty of tourists still fall into the swindlers' trap.s.
The most common and probably most well-known is pretty simple:
A shoe shiner (allegedally by accident) drops his shoe brush in front of you and pretends to not notice it.
When you, as a kind person, point that out to him, he immediately starts shining your footwear (even if you are wearing sandals) out of ''pure gratefullness'' and tries to distract you with a conversation.
After that, he obviously demands a lot of money and becomes pretty agressive, sometimes even following poor tourists to their hotel and threatening them with vengeance.
Fortunately, I was always quite leery of strangers and just ignored the shoe brush every time someone dropped itone in front of me.
They quickly picked it up then and sought other tourists.
The scheme is so common that I once saw three such shoe shiners in a mere 40 minutes!
It must be quite a monotonous occupation.
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Interesting and well written!
During my five-day stay in the former capital of Turkey this October, I was able to witnessed several acts of swindling and saw a lot of grifters there.
Although the tricks they use are pretty old, plenty of tourists still fall intofor the swindlers' trap.
The most common and probably most well-known is pretty simple:
A shoe shiner (allegedally by accident) drops his shoe brush in front of you and pretends to not notice it.
When you, as a kind person, point thait out to him, he immediately starts shining your footwear (even if you wear sandals) out of ''pure gratefullness'' and tries to distract you with a conversation.
After that, he obviously demands a lot of money and becomes pretty agressive, sometimes even following poor tourists to their hotel and threatening them with vengeaiolence.
Fortunately, I was always quite leerycareful of strangers and just ignored the shoe brush every time someone dropped it in front of me.
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During my five-day stay in the former capital of Turkey this October, I was able to witness several acts of swindling and saw a lot of grifters there. During my five-day stay in the former capital of Turkey this October, I This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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Although the tricks they use are pretty old, plenty of tourists still fall into the swindlers' trap. Although the tricks they use are pretty old, plenty of tourists still fall Although the tricks they use are pretty old, plenty of tourists still fall into the swindlers' trap |
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The most common and probably most well-known is pretty simple: The most common and probably most well-known is pretty simple: This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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A shoe shiner (allegedally by accident) drops his shoe brush in front of you and pretends to not notice it. A shoe shiner This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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When you, as a kind person, point that out to him, he immediately starts shining your footwear (even if you wear sandals) out of ''pure gratefullness'' and tries to distract you with a conversation. When you When you, as a kind person, point that out to him, he immediately starts shining your footwear (even if you are wearing sandals) out of ''pure grateful |
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They quickly picked it up then and sought other tourists. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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After that, he obviously demands a lot of money and becomes pretty agressive, sometimes even following poor tourists to their hotel and threatening them with vengeance. After that, he This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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Fortunately, I was always quite leery of strangers and just ignored the shoe brush everytime someone dropped it in front of me. Fortunately, I was always quite Fortunately, I was always quite leery of strangers and just ignored the shoe brush every time someone dropped |
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The scheme is so common that I once saw three such shoe shiners in mere 40 minutes! The scheme is so common that I once saw three such shoe shiners in a mere 40 minutes! |
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It must be quite a monotonous occupation. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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