The most common travel scam revealed – and how to avoid it
Destinations with the highest fraud levels reported by tourists emerged in a new report with some of the most popular holiday places in the world.
And while Con artists change their methods worldwide, there is a scam that should be aware of tourists all over the world, proposing a research.
According to research by the Mastercard Institute of Economics, the probability of travelers to experience fraud about travel agencies and tour companies is four times more than other industries.
For example, at a point of arrival, it was accepted that the reservation of local operators or trips with local operators would increase the risk of exposure to fraud.
Transportation was also emphasized as an area that reports more than fraud, including other travel modes such as flight or railway, with problems related to both car rental agencies and taxi companies.
Bangkok, Cancun and Vietnam are among the highest fraud levels reported by visitors, and Dakka is also on the list in Bangladesh.
San Francisco, Dublin, Seoul, Budapest and Edinburgh were the cities with the lowest fraud rates related to travel.
The research found that frauds are often different in different destinations, from food to excessive wages in restaurants to money supply through fake accommodation lists.
In New York, 63% of the tourists who said that they were defrauded told the police that the cons are related to restaurants or orders with package service.
For example, in Big Apple, being dismantled by an Eatery or package service was the most common fraud that made up about 63 percent of cases, and other big cities reported similar stories including Phuket, Manila and Riyadh.
On the West Coast in La, the problem was bigger, 75 percent of fraud with food orders.
Meanwhile, taxi and car rental fraud has made 66% of the complaints from travelers in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Researchers found that the high season of fraud reports increased by 18% … Winter destinations increased by 28 percent during the most intensive visitor periods.
In the report, holidaymakers are generally seen as the target of easy crimes: ‘In the reservation process, the travel industry is a well -known goal for scammers, whether it is undoubtedly travelers or fraudsters aiming for deceptive activities.
‘The Mastercard Institute of Economics (MEI) believes that the understanding of fraud trends is particularly important in the periods of uncertain economic climates.’
However, there are ways to protect yourself in front of a trip with payment for products with travel insurance and credit card recommended by experts.
The 75th part of the 1974 Consumer Credit Law protects customers using credit cards to make purchases and gives the right to request refund.
Quality products or services, fraudulent behaviors or canceled purchases can be made.
Recent research by Mastercard Economics Institute (MEI) listed cities with the lowest number of frauds reported with Seoul, Picture, San Francisco, Dublin, Budapest and Edinburgh.
Using a digital wallet on your phone can help prevent a deception from taking place while on holiday, for example, experts – with good travel cover to protect against fraud
The MasterCard report also suggested that they have made the fraud difficult to use digital wallets on the phones.
“Developing digital payment tendencies increase security even more. Mobile wallets that are preserved by tokinization technology, which changes card details with digital identifiers specific to each processing -specific attorney, significantly reduce data theft. ‘
Research published this week found that more than half of the British left their wallets at home to rely on digital payments.
Only 48 percent of the British think that transporting a physical wallet is an important part of daily routines, and new data emerges from the cash access and ATM network connection.
Four -fifths still have a wallet or bag, but the increasing popularity and the acceptance of cards and digital payments, and the wallets that allow people to pay with phones and watches such as Applepay or Google Pay means leaving the house without them.
Card transactions exceed cash payments in 2018, while Link’s data shows payments through digital wallets for adults between 18 and 44 years of age.
