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British Tourist Charged €1,700 for Kebab in Rio De Janeiro Scam
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Last week, Brazilian police caught several scammers in Rio de Janeiro who lured tourists to eat snacks and then had them pay exorbitant amounts of money through a payment terminal. According to local police, Czechs were among those defrauded.
On the Brazilian beach of Copacabana, a man tried to rip off tourists with a counterfeit payment terminal. He was arrested after having charged a British man €1,700 for a meat skewer.
British tourist charged €1,700 for kebab in Rio de Janeiro scam
A British tourist in Brazil has been scammed into buying what might be the world’s most expensive kebab. The incident, which involved a rigged payment device, took place on one of Brazil’s most iconic beaches, Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, and is not a one-off, local police warn. The scammer was arrested on 13 April, Rio’s civil police confirmed to The Independent, after using a payment machine that had been tampered with to charge the visitor 1…
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