Eastern Europe Tourist Scams

Going to Budapest in a week, what should I look out for?

Some Russian in another thread once posted a secret curse that make gypsies run away, does anyone remember that?

>Visiting the hype of the gypsy

......Why?

Heres one
>pretty girl or college aged guy with honest face approaches
>in your language or english or whatever explains they want to practice your language and offers to buy you lunch
>very expensive order, they pull out none of the stops while having good conversation
>get up to use the restroom
>dont come back
>you are stuck with the bill

2nd one is a typical car jacking or mugging.

You see a car along side the road with a tire off or the hood up and you pull over to offer assistance.

4 or 5 guys jump out of the bushes and beat your ass before stealing your wallet and maybe your car.

Also, if a pretty gypsy girl is hitting on you and getting all flirtatious and in your space she probably just pick pocketed you.

That one actually happened to me.

That's why I'll never travel to the shit hole of Eastern Europe.

Another fun trick: The Gypsy Baby Toss
Gypsy woman walks up, tosses a baby swaddled in blankets into your arms, snatches your purse/wallet/backpack whilst yelling "MY BABY MY BABY HE HAS MY BABY."

Then they run off and you realize that its just a lifelike doll wrapped in a blanket.

Its can really be the gypsy anything toss, a box full of junk, a rolled up news paper, etc etc.

I've been to Romania once, when we were getting a cab another cab driver punched our cab driver in the face because I guess our cab driver wasn't allowed to take us? This was in Bucharest.

Otherwise, the countryside was beautiful.

The only reason why I am mentioning this is because Romania and Hungry are right beside each other, so I would assume they are culturally similar.

Sorry if im posting up your thread bruh, but I travel a lot and have seen a lot of these, so I'll just dump scams until I run out or you get sick of it.

"Buy me a drink stranger?"

Says the pretty girl after talking and flirting for a while, she suggests that you go with her to a bar she likes nearby for a drink. You think, hell yeah, gettin laid, so you go and buy a drink.

Upon finishing the drink the Bouncers ivan and boris step up real menacingly and bartender hands you a bill for several hundred euros.

There is an ATM nearby and you will pay for the 300 euro beer or this mafia run enterprise will beat your ass 6 shades of blue.

Credit card phishing

Simple, your hotel room phone rings in the middle of the night, its the front desk saying you must verify your credit or bank card data or you will be checked out immediatly.

Not the hotel's front desk, its a thief.

>they are culturally similar
very wrong assumption

btw everyone can think whatever he wants but if you come... welcome & have fun!

and try to avoid the brown ppl in every eu country

dont be a fucking pussy

dont wear sandals and socks, act like a man, be serious dont smile always like a fucking retard and u will be fine

just show them u have balls u thay whont try anything on you

Simple bar scam:

You settle bill with the bar tender, he then turns around from the cash register after depositing your money and hands you a duplicate bill before he pretends that you havent paid him yet.

Gypsy children. A child comes to you, begging for money, as you are telling that kid no, the sister pickpockets you. Must have eyes on back of head at all times.

Go to restaurant, puts bread on table. Don't eat bread, still charged for it. It is not complimentary like in America. So, if they offer bread, tell them you don't want it.

Been to Romania, Hungary, and most Eastern European countries.

why would you go from one bar, that she clearly visits to ANOTHER bar?

Like how is that not obvious, why would she not mingle at her favorite bar first?

It works best on lonely travelers who really aren't thinking in the heat of the moment.

if you're drunk enough to fall for that, you deserve it.

Don't drink yourself to a level where your cognitive functionality is heavily reduced.

>his country is such a poor shithole that people have to resort to bullshit like this

reminder slavs are not white

True story according to my saffa mate

>mates wife driving range rover in south Africa
>dindu has made a road block and trying to make her stop
>she's like yeah right lol and serves off the road to go around them
>wew, bit bumpy going through the long roadside grass
>look in rear view, 4-5 mangled Dindus crawling out of grass writhing and dieing
>cunts were hiding for an ambush.

Familiarize yourself with local prices, that's the most important. Always know the ballpark figure for any service/product you're going to buy and never accept any offer, that has no visible, public price attached to it.

That's pretty much it, if you're not a gullible dumbass, you will be fine.

>his country requires a special set of rules to not get mug

I only need one rule and its called my AR-15. Damn it feels good to be Free.

That's a pretty funny story.

I was in Budapest last week, I didn't encounter any of the shitty scams that everybody hyped.

I walked through Budapest 6, 7 and 8 at all hours and didn't encounter anybody else hardly. These are the supposed scary areas. They were fucking tame even compared to the retirement town where I live in the south of England.

There were no gangs, no scum, no nigs, no pakis, I have never felt so safe and unhassled as when I was in Budapest. It's far far less degenerate than London. Actually Budapest is the only European city I've ever been in that I've not been offered drugs by anybody on the street, and I was walking everywhere, between many ruin bars, never had any hassle. Even when I stayed in Mitte in Berlin, it was more degenerate than Budapest.

I recommend a bar called Durer Kert which is by the City Park. Also a great place to relax is Pontoon, which is by one of the bridges, it's an outside bar and plays techno.

If you want a place to eat that's out of the way and not touristy, try Pótkulcs, look it up on your mapping system and you will see a wall covered in greenery, just look for the doorway amongst the greenery, there are no signs but this is a nice place that I ate at twice.

The only scam is Instant because it's anything but fucking Instant, every time I went there the queue was a fucking mile long, good luck getting in there.

Also one thing I missed which I wish I saw was the Pinball Museum.

I barely saw any gypsies or anything else.

Germany is far far shittier than Hungary, don't worry.

It's called common sense, but you Westerners are so fucking pampered and naive, that we have to remind you not to pay hundreds of dollars for a glass of orange juice or perhaps that attractive girl who approached you might actually not be into loud, obnoxious, out of shape tourists, she might have an ulterior motive.

Well Budapest would be tame when you compare it to a third world Caliphate.

I hope that actually happened, haha.

It would be really cool to kill those niggers.

In the US folks grow up with an extensive saftey net.

You ever wonder why americans just blunder right into stuff without a clue?

Because as bad as some small areas can get, most of america is literally so safe that you CAN just spend your whole life blundering along without incident.

So they do the same thing in another country and get both thier legs broke during a robbery and are suprised that that saftey net of world class police officers, paramedics, and fire fighters arent rushing in to save them.
(Fuck what the media spoon feeds about how dangerous america is, we have an excellent police and ambulance force. There are better but in my expierience 90% of them are far worse)

Budapest is chill. Cheap beer, cheap hoes. I recommend Prague as well.

Don't listen to these Americans who've never visited the real world before.

Why the fuck would you want to go there? I hate gypsies, my friend got robbed by 4 of them with a knife in EU, they even took his shoes lol.. Then a faggot tried to pickpocket me but didnt happen

Always park your car at a spot, where it is automatically watched by many pedestrians. My car was broken into in Budapest.

doing the lawds work

Don't take travellers cheques, it took me half an hour to get them changed. Service is shit tier in banks and bureau de change.

People still use those?

You must be blind. When I was in Budapest I saw lots of gypsys and brown people in the back streets. And I've never seen so many homeless bums in my life. One offered his hobo wife to fuck for cash while she was passed out in the day. At night a junkie hooker offered sex for $5 in the park.

But it did feel very safe and I have to say Hungarians are awesome people (too many Romanians there)