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Hav u ever been cheatedCHEATED in any scams b4?

Hav u been a victim of any scams?what types of scams were they?

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    mostly misleading advertising for tourist places. often they like to give beautified pictures of how wonderful a place is and show these photoshopped out pictures that show flowers and trees. then you get there and you notice the sewage treatment plant and night market next to the dying trees and plants. very big letdown. sigh. an example of this is a place called the 'Puli vineyard/winery' i tried to visit once. Its actually a whiskey factory that was ugly as hell. Mistranslation extreme, i guess at least it had an ok tour of the grounds and some explanations of stuff in english... but the photos were very misleading as well and it was not at all what I wanted to see. I have learned to enjoy the travels but 1 out of 4 times the tour destinations here have misrepresented themselves, and are just shitholes shaking you down for cash. its depressing but there are still valid places to go that are worth seeing. a LOT of foreigners come here and badmouth Taiwan because of greedy scum businessmen misrepresenting a place or not controlling the crowdflow and eliminating a place from overcrowding. The main thing when you travel here is to enjoy the journey. check http://www.virtualtourist.com and search for taiwan for some independant reviews in english and check on http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/categories.cfm?catid=19&iCountryId=89 for other reviews. if you can read chinese my wife uses http://www.backpackers.tw for reviews and yahoo answers in chinese has lots of good independant reviews of stuff around the island...

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Are you asking with specific reference to Taiwan? The most popular type of scam I can think of is that sometimes you will receive telephone calls saying things like - "Taipei Court requires that you be present on [date]; for more information, please press [some key]" - "Your credit card has just been charged $50000. For more information, please press [some key]" - "This is Hinet. Your telephone service will be terminated in 24 hours. For more information, please press [some key]" You get the pattern--DON'T press the key they instruct you to, just hang up. These are usually machine-generated voices. However, sometimes you will get scarier calls from real people, who say things like "Your son has been kidnapped in [some place]" "Your mother has had a fatal traffic accident" What makes these calls scary is that the callers actually "research" your family details--they know who are in your family, and they know the names of your family members, etc. Again, most of the time they will ask for money; just hang up at a first sign of such calls. But please hang up politely; if you are rude to them, you might receive some mysterious calls at 3 a.m. in the morning.

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If you mean e-mail scams, no, I delete anything that seems "Fishy"

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