When traveling, it's important to keep your phone, passport, and other valuables safe. Depending on what you are wearing and where you're traveling, I suggest keeping valuables in different places on your body. Around your waist in a money belt, or on your arm in an arm wallet, or up under your pant leg. Never keep it all in a purse or in your pocket. Don't let the very savvy thieves get it all. And they are everywhere, with new scams every day. Also, tether your phone to you. This is the pickpocketers' biggest prize right now. Millions of phones get snatched every year. Literally. Beware of tourist traps in London, Paris, Rome, and Barcelona especially. Many of the pickpockets are teen girls with a purse and sweater over their arm. Also, phone snatchers come along on ebikes or motor bikes and simply grab it from you. Keep your phone tied to your body. Even if you are wearing a lanyard, thieves can unclip the phone in a nanosecond. This happened to me when I was looking at a monkey. The man got my phone in one second and wanted me to pay him for a picture, on my own phone! I did and got my phone back.
This goes for guys too. I've seen big grown men get pickpocketed by small children they never saw coming. Everyone is vulnerable if you aren't aware. Watch out for any distraction like trying to get you to sign a petition, or to pick up dropped change, or a mom and baby, or to buy a bracelet, or crowded subways. Another scam is selling things on the street or demonstrating a silly game. Many work in teams with one snatching and another the pass off. Just assume they are there and be prepared.
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