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4 Scams you should avoid in Japan!

Abroad in Japan

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Do You Know How to Deal With a Japanese Charity Mugger?

The deaf thing is a pretty good accoutrement to the scam. If they weren't deaf, a humouring aid would not be a bad little prop because you could just sort of plead belligerents. This happens a lot. I don't know who's running the show. But I actually typed into Google and found out that the same scam had popped up in places like New Zealand. So clearly they've gone international with this incredible thing, but this incredible scam. It reminds me of when I was in Berlin,. There's a Holocaust memorial in Berlin, and I was going around it. And I think there's four or five girls approached me with this clipboard which said something about

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