5 BIGGEST SCAMS & TOURIST TRAPS in ITALY: Be Careful In Italian Capital Rome! 

And please do understand that for the most part...those scammers are neither Romans nor Italians......Period....

Another tip in an Italian bar or restaurant- ALWAYS ask to see the menu. Often the waiter will reel off a list of items available. You have no idea of the cost and could well be presented with a enormous bill. By law they are obliged to show you a menu with prices or have it displayed where it can easily be seen. Venice is particularly bad in this respect.

We were in Las Vegas watching a concert in the Venetian when I noticed a woman inching her way toward me. When she got very close, I told my husband, “lets move over there”. I knew what she was up too. Same in London with gypsies in the underground. He just doesn’t see it. I do. Years in retail!

I was just in Rome and experienced several of these scams. First was the African at the colosseum guy putting the string bracelet on my wrist. He wanted five euro to support his family. I refused. He dropped to 1 euro. I walked away and kept the string bracelet with a plastic engraved elephant for a souvenir. Next was the petition guy asking to sign to keep music in schools. In a square was a bunch of people hawking cheap useless garbage. We were at a restaurant when a loud commotion broke out. It was a man faking a seizure. As the patrons were distracted we immediately heard a woman call out her purse was gone off the back of her chair and so was the seizure guy. She lost passport, credit cards everything. A person we were traveling with found that her shoulder bag was slashed and her empty camera case was missing ONLY after getting ready for dinner. It was done in the ticket purchase line for a museum. This is an excellent information video.

Very practical and useful advices , thanks Anna🎉

Trying to get ready for my Italy trip. This is so useful. Thank you

One thing maybe to remember: Some of the criminals have contacts in other countries too. If you carry your address tag on the outside of your backpack or bag, you might come home and find your house emptied. A good video Anna! However, if you have some common sense it will serve you well. I have visited Rome five times, and never had any problems. However, nowadays we mostly enjoy walking along the back streets and try to avoid the largest crowds.

Thanks for sharing

Thanks Anna and everyone for sharing much appreciated 🦋💫💫💫💫💫💕

Very informative and great video you have made

Thank you for the many good advices👍😀

Before we went our travel agent gave us a do not do list which helped prepare us for Rome which I found particularly bad for Gypsy scams . She also told me to only take a leather crossbody bag with me because it is harder for the thieves to cut the bottom out of it . Florence didn't seem to have the same issues but that was a few years ago .

Great video! I was in Rome and various cities in Italy for 2 weeks. I was thankful not to fall for these scams. I saw the majority of them in this video. With any big city, you just have to be aware and not engage with them.

You’re very intelligent in developing creative and humours you tubes that keeps my attention, especially when I have short attention span.very helpful tips!!

Lovely work Anna. Love from London ❤

Fantastic advice. Thank you very much.

Very informative, thank you🥰

Thank you. Very helpful tips.

thanks for the heads up

Pistacchio color is a sign of natural or artificial gelato. Natural pistacchio is not green, it’s light brown. Green pistacchio is artificial ice cream with dyes

Thank you for your useful information. It will be very helpful for my trip to Rome.

Brava! Molto accurato!

Thank you for these helpful tips 🎉🎉🎉

The food in the restaurants and the gelato looked so delicious.

Grazie Anna! Video molto interessante 🙂

First rule. Do not buy anything illegally sold in the street. Second. Keep purse and mobile in your front jeans pockets. Third. Never stop with illegal expats or sign petitions.

Wake up at 6 am or after 11 m and the crowds in the touristic sites are close to none

1:56 Went to Rome for my first time and I wanted to visit the Trajan’s Market but this place is crowded with those African bracelet scammers and they’re SUPER AGGRESSIVE. One of them tried to walk right into my way and I ignored him but he got aggressive and tried to make me stop by hitting me right on the chess but I managed to push his arm away. As I walked further another of those scammers got into my way and I tried to ignore him as well, but he grabbed my arm pretty tight and yelled at me to calm down. I just told him that I’m busy and somehow I got away. I can recommend anyone who visits Rome to NOT go to the Trajan’s market.

Anna, loved your energy and vibes... also adv about the situation by throwing in some acting is pretty cool... keep up with good work🥰

Thank you so much; I appreciate your advise. ☮️

I will be in Rome next week and will be on the look out for these scams. Grazie, Anna!!!

Tq for information right now im in roma 2moro is last day next i would like to see u learn more about roma

I usually never watch this videos ..cause the people speaking are annoying or havr no flavour. You are actually engaging. Good tips.

Nice video.

I love your videos and information. Thank you sooooo much !

Cмотрю все видео с большим удовольствием :3

I believe you. Even just visiting I’ve not had any issues

Hi Anna! 👍😉

Very interesting!❤😊

Thanks for the tips. I know it probably took a lot of time to produce that video

My 6' 2" 225lbs brother doesn't take any crap-o-la! We jumped out of a tour bus to look at the Coliseum. One of those junk dealer guys tossed something at my brother to scam him. My brother batted the object and it flew across the street and was run over by a car. About 5 of those junk dealer guys turned to him and said, "not cool". Jerks!

I’ve been to Rome twice and everything she says is true. I told a street seller “NO” three times and then he started calling me a racist. “You don’t like black people. You racist”. I was in shock. I refuse to buy anything off the street sellers. I only patronize in shops for souvenirs. I have a neck wallet for valuables. The only thing in my pockets is lip balm and a plastic bag with a small roll of toilet paper. My phone is on a lanyard around my neck. With all this being said I love visiting Rome. So much history and wonderful people.

GREAT tips, love the accent, so real. Keep yourself safe in doing these takes )))

I forget all the scam when I saw you,you are having an air of bliss,by the way you did hard to make awareness,I appreciate,you are amongst the amorous Italian,good by

brava Anna questi video sono interessanti per i turisti (e non solo). Che bel quadro quando sei alla fontana di trevi :)

Great tips! Grazie mille ❤

grazie per questo.

grazie mille❤

I'll be carefull. Thanks for the info. Scams это развод?

In short, when on holiday in Europe, don’t talk to Africans & South Asians and you’ll be fine and you won’t lose money or belongings. Live by that and you’ll be happy.

Anna, I love your accent. I’m going to start saying “guys” like you do! 😂 it’s endearing. Thanks for all your tips. I love love love Rome, but am sad that there are so many scammers there.

Well done.

Last time I was in Roma... 2010, but I don't remember it like this. Was safer for tourists I guess.

I wish I saw your video earlier. I was just in Rome, all of these scammers approached me, but I'm from a big city where they do similar tricks so I just ignored them. But, I think I've eaten fake Gellato 😢 Was delicious though 😁

We were going to Caracalla Terme one early Sunday morning when 4 giggling young girls got on the metro and as we got ready to get off at the next station and the train slowed down the girls fell on my back and at the same time managed to steal my wallet even though I had closed pocket with a button. The girls were nicely dressed, but the Italians said they were gypsies and that you should look at their shoes, which are often muddy and worn as they live in a large gypsy camp on a dirt field outside Rome. Luckily I was well insured but suddenly we would be living the rest of the holiday on just one wallet. The police required the report to be written in Italian on an Italian form which took us a couple of hours to fill out correctly using a phrasebook for the report to be accepted and registered. The most dangerous place according to locals in Rome, is the Bus from Termini (Central Station) to the Vatican. Several leagues of young boys and girls go with the tourists for the purpose of pickpockets them.

Thanks for the vídeo, excellent advice. I’d like to add that 80% of the seríous/viølent crímes in Italy are not from Italians (ppl with Italian lineage), it’s from who was let into Italy and theír chíldren.

The name of the gelato place what was it? I didn't quite catch it after 4 replays 😅

thanks

Arrest these scammers already! !!

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I remember Napoli around railway station 😮

Anna is sweeeet😍😍

❤❤❤❤❤❤ thanks 🙏🙏🙏🙏

11:15 but Giolitti has like a million flavours. It contradicts what you just said.

Hearing all of this- why would I want to go to Rome? I saw enough of this in Paris.

Nice leathers!

Scammers in Italy are a pain never again.

Thank God my sister and I, did not experience any of this while we were in ITaly. We were very vigilant the entire trip and never spoke to any suspicious looking people. Our cross bags was inside our coats and phones are around our necks. 😆

Avoid these issues in Rome by going to Naples.

So it has reached Rome also. Sad

Two years ago when we visited Milan , a lady from our tourist group left her iPhone on the table when a man with newspaper sitting next her. When she found out that her phone had been stolen.

You have never looked sexier, and that's saying a lot... Welcome back to Norway! 😘

Also Rome is a very nice town

I tried going to your site but it's currently down.

I got scammed one time. I was so hungry I went to one of the food kiosks in the park and grabbed a bag of chips when I held it up the guy pit up 2 fingers when he heard my accent he quickly put up 3 fingers. I was definitely overcharged for them

Hello my friend How are you...

Ordered the guide in the link like a few minutes ago and made a payment. But I have not yet received the file. Funny. Thanks for warning me for my trip to Italy.

How does one carry cash with so much pick pocketing 😮

Roma is so crowded ugh

Around ______, never relax.

In Trieste almost none of these scams exist. Sure there are some pick pockets and 2 euro bottled water but for the most part you will be OK. Oh yes, the guys selling flowers to diners are in Trieste as well but I don’t really consider that a scam. More of a pesky nuisance.

I can only say we ate in tourist restaurants and gelato places and the taste was very nice even it might be considered as "Fake" . Two days we ate Spaghetti for 7 € in a place which sells also Döner and hot dogs and the taste was totally ok. And Pizza there was only 2,50 € and we enjoyed it. For me the biggest scam is that some Restaurants ask 15€ for a main dish and you need to order extra the side dishes which sums up to more than 20€ for a meal. And not to forget the hotels which charge more than 200€ for a night, thats obviously a huge scam. Max 100€ for one night is ok.

13:13 Guy selling flowers 😅 Those are existing for long time, I really don't know how can survive by selling flowers, our days almost nobody keep money in the pockets, because most of the places you can pay with your phone or card.

Very useful tips. Many thanks.

Never got scammed. But had my eyes open. I took a cane with me and kept people at bay...i did get a black guy try and give me a bracelet for free...i said No and kept walking.... i had pistachio Gelato ugh

Another common scam is when they selling some printed paintings and they just display it on the pavement. If they see you walking by and not looking at your feet they will come up to you and say you stepped on the painting and you have to pay for it. Watch out bcos if you start to argue with this guy, 2-3 of his companion will immediately aproach you. Best advise is never ever talk to any of these african scammers, dont say anything just walk away but stat aware of what is he doing

Other than your British Russian Accent you have a lot of good points. Work in saying “but” and “first” in English. It sounds nothing like those words. 😅

I wish I could have watched your video earlier this year. Thank you for your sharing. Fake gladiators in Rome asked me for 5 Euros after I took a single photo of them (I did not even ask them to take photos with me and I thought they were cosplayers or some kind of official staff). They were very aggressive and did not let me walk away for about 5 minutes. I finally made my escape after giving them a 2 Euros coin. I did not report to the police on the opposite side of the road because they seemed to allow these people and their attitude towards foreign tourists. Two policemen just watched and did not try to intervene. It is a hard lesson for me.

And I thought Hollyood Blvd. was sketchy. 🙄

For the water you can simply buy at the supermarket!

You see this in NYC also. Nothing new. Pick pocket groups tends to have 5 people. Its always the people who are not acting right in the situation. They look around quickly and are very jumpy. There is always a guy carry some kind of towel whos is the one who will steal you wallet and hide it in the towel.

in brazil even beggars have card machines

Finalmente qualcuno che racconta la realtà che non si può dire apertamente in Italia.

Scary are there police officials within these tourists areas? I’m so nervous for my trip this summer

Hello hehe

9:02 yeah those are typical tourist traps, you recognize them for the big american style menu signs! 😅 P.S. for american style I mean with illustrated menu, in Italy good restaurant does not pubblish food pictures! 👌

Was in Italy just last March. Traveled all over, never had any trouble at all. Of course i follow a few rules: I don't usually go out at night, I don't carry any kind of bag while walking around, I keep my passport inside my clothes, I don't wear jewelry, and I look mean. Also, I'm male. Guess that helps...

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A small clarification, in Italy you must always have your ID with you at all times (an ID picture is not the same thing), in case you don't have it with you law enforcement officers (police, carabinieri, local police) are authorized to take you to their offices to verify your identity (it usually never happens, but it can happen and they are authorized to do so).

Just got back from Italy and saw all them scams I have bout 30 of them bracelets didn’t pay a dime they put it on my wrist and I kept walking they said where you from and I said where do it look like I’m from They said don’t I know and I said Brooklyn and they said oh it’s a gift 😂