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As a preface: in any situation when you are asked to show your money, know - they are going to throw you! There are different schemes: a gypsy can ask, saying that this is part of a fortune-telling ritual, a person who looks like a foreigner and speaks with an accent can ask, he will ask you to show the money in order to know how the money looks in your country, otherwise he supposedly he is afraid that he will be deceived during the exchange, etc. The result will be the same - they will throw you. How specifically? Yes, it doesn’t matter, there are also different schemes.
Usually such scammers work, at least, together. One at some point will distract your attention, and the second will replace your money with fake or a "doll", or simply return less than you took.
One of the varieties is money exchange. There is a queue at the exchange point. One of those standing in line asks you: "Do you want to exchange dollars for rubles? Let me buy from you." You go aside, agree on a mutually beneficial exchange rate. You give him dollars, he gives you rubles.
You recount and find that he didn’t give you rubles, say, 10. Tell him: "There isn’t enough." He: "Is it really wrong? Let's recount." He takes back the rubles, recounts, exclaims: "Ah, indeed, I was mistaken! Excuse me, please! Here you have another 10 rubles." Adds a dozen to the pack and returns you these rubles. And you diverge. And then you discover that he has returned you a much smaller amount. For example, there was a pack of hundreds, and he returned to you a pack, where hundreds and above are hundreds and inside are tens. But everyone already knows this scam, I brought it only as another illustration of the same throwing, the key point of which is to pick up your money.
And I, in fact, wanted to tell you about the next widespread reception now. This is useful to know especially for those who travel abroad. Moreover, it is interesting that this scam is played out, including in civilized countries, not to mention the former socialist countries. For example, one person who lived in Paris for about two weeks said that he had encountered such a situation three times (!). Here's how it goes. You are walking along the street. Someone comes up to you (often he has a deliberately suspicious look), takes out some money and starts to tell you something. Well, you’re smart, you know that money on the street can’t be changed, and indeed, you don’t even need to enter into conversations with all kinds of strange types. Pass by. Suddenly, two plainclothes fly up to you, drag this type with them, show you some kind of identification card and introduce themselves as police officers.
(Of course, look, don’t look, you won’t understand anything there. When a policeman shows you a certificate in Russia, you won’t even distinguish the present from a cheap fake. And here it’s foreign!). They say to you: "Present your documents." Show your passport. They can ask you a couple of questions in a strict voice (they are preparing you psychologically). Then they ask: "Did you exchange money with this person? We saw how he approached you!" You say: "No, I have not changed!" False police say: "We still have to check! Please show your money."
Here is the key point. Showed money - consider, lost most of it. While one is looking at the money, the other will distract you for a second with some question or, for example, unexpectedly rudely breaks his arm to this "suspicious type" so that he screams. At this point, your money will be replaced or just most of it will be withdrawn.
Once again I repeat the main conclusion from all of the above: when you are asked to show money - they want to throw you.

 

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She did not change the money from her hands, but went to a permanent exchange office. In any case, she constantly had the opportunity to contemplate his sign above the oak door directly opposite the metro.
“We only have a wholesale exchange, starting from a thousand dollars,” her guard behind the oak door braked.
- Did you agree?
Then he called someone Nikolai Palych and reported that "the girl came without an agreement. But she has only a thousand." Having received permission from the authorities, he said: "Come along."
For some reason, we went to the General Post Office. This did not alert her: at the post office some banks are constantly renting premises. In addition, it is full of police ...
Doubts arose when the guard suggested that she count the money near the boarded up window in the money transfer room, and Nikolai Palych arrived in time and presented a pack of 100-dollar bills folded in half and tied with an elastic band. A regular admirer of “O. Bender” knew that if the pack was overloaded, it would be replaced - and there would be only one 100-dollar note. Therefore, I followed the scammers in all eyes. And managed to detect the moment of substitution ...
But when the girl tried to intercept her legitimate bundle with real (albeit bent) dollars, a huge kid appeared and gently twisted her hand. While she struggled and screamed, Nikolai Palych and his guard, having collected all the money, left the municipal building, guarded by the police.
The militia at the General Post Office that day did not find the robbed girl at all; The "permanent" exchange office behind the oak door also took off its sign and disappeared ...