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Got Scammed at Taksim Istanbul. Tourists beware.
Yesterday, while my brother and I was walking down Taksim looking for Nargile, a person bumped into us, like it was an accident. Then became friendly asking where are we going, where we are from, etc.
Then he said he's German Turkish, from Stuttgart but hometown in Antalya. His name was Mustafa.
He then said he wanted to party, go to this Tokyo Club, and he said he was going there, and we went on a cab, which he paid for.
Once we reached there, we went in and sat down, then they sent bottled water, etc. and champagne. We didn't order for it, but they popped it. My brother and I refused to drink it. Then we decided to leave, coz it was shabby, but they told us to pay 14,000 TL with 20% service charge or so. There were like 4 big and muscular bouncers intimidating us. And the funny thing is, the Mustafa guy was no longer in sight.
My brother and I feared for our lives and we signed our card to it and we're going to try to reverse the charges, wish us luck.
As we left the place, we were shivering, scared and almost shat our pants.
Guess what happened today? Down the street of Taksim at around 10-11pm, we encountered the same thing twice with 2 different people bumping into us trying to be friendly and saying they're looking to party. We then only realized Mustafa was a scam job, and we decided to ignore these 2 ppl on different occasions. We learned it the hard way, the scary and expensive way.
Other tourists, please beware. Do not take these ppl's friendliness for granted. Use common sense, and it's never too safe to put your guards up. Don't be a stupid tourist like us.
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Yesterday, while my brother and I was walking down Taksim looking for Nargile, a person bumped into us, like it was an accident. Then became friendly asking where are we going, where we are from, etc.
Then he said he's German Turkish, from Stuttgart but hometown in Antalya. His name was Mustafa.
He then said he wanted to party, go to this Tokyo Club, and he said he was going there, and we went on a cab, which he paid for.
Once we reached there, we went in and sat down, then they sent bottled water, etc. and champagne. We didn't order for it, but they popped it. My brother and I refused to drink it. Then we decided to leave, coz it was shabby, but they told us to pay 14,000 TL with 20% service charge or so. There were like 4 big and muscular bouncers intimidating us. And the funny thing is, the Mustafa guy was no longer in sight.
My brother and I feared for our lives and we signed our card to it and we're going to try to reverse the charges, wish us luck.
As we left the place, we were shivering, scared and almost shat our pants.
Guess what happened today? Down the street of Taksim at around 10-11pm, we encountered the same thing twice with 2 different people bumping into us trying to be friendly and saying they're looking to party. We then only realized Mustafa was a scam job, and we decided to ignore these 2 ppl on different occasions. We learned it the hard way, the scary and expensive way.
Other tourists, please beware. Do not take these ppl's friendliness for granted. Use common sense, and it's never too safe to put your guards up. Don't be a stupid tourist like us.
#travel
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