As the old saying goes: At the beginning of man, nature is good.
But a friend who came back from Egypt told me that at the beginning of man, sex is a deception.
I don't know if you have seen a paragraph on the Internet: In Egypt, I only allowed myself to be deceived 3 times.
I thought it was an exaggeration, but I later learned that it was a subtle expression.
Xiaohongshu user @Ke
In the past two years, many people like to go abroad for vacation, and the Chinese who can go anywhere have also encircled the wilderness to the Sahara.
In order to attract tourists, some countries roll services, some countries roll prices, Egypt is different, people roll fraud methods.
Experience an Egyptian scam and you'll understand.
There is another place on earth that is not Burma, but it is better than Burma.
How likely are you to be scammed while traveling in Egypt?
Let's tell you so.
I haven't been deceived in Egypt, which is equivalent to going to Tianshui and not eating Malatang, going to the Northeast and not entering the big bathhouse, and not seeing what Xinlang looks like when I entered the cave room.
I don't know if you ever had this fantasy when you were a child: if everyone I met could give me a dollar, would I become a billionaire soon?
This idea of pie in the sky has fallen into reality for the Egyptian people.
Search for "Egypt" online and you'll see a lot of scam prevention guides.
First up is the "one dollar" mantra that the Egyptians do best.
Xiaohongshu user @Go to the dock on the hour to order fries 7
It is a stepping stone for Egyptians and tourists to communicate, and some people even suspect that the first words of an Egyptian child born are not mom and dad, but "one dollar".
These two words come out of a child's mouth, which is about the same as begging, and once you give it to someone, countless children will rush out and ask you to get the rain and dew.
If it comes out of the vendor's mouth, it means that the goods in his hand are going to be bought and sold, and they will be stuffed directly into your hand while you are not paying attention, and when you get to it, the "one dollar" in your hand will also swell into "20 one dollars"
Just like the two-dollar store at the door of our house, there is a small word "up" under the signboard.
Actually, it doesn't matter if you don't give it, but they will trot 800 meters after you.
In the end, you will find that you can't hide, but you can afford it.
Douyin user @ Big Brother's cousin
You think that as long as you are thick-skinned enough, you can refuse the tip kidnapping of the Egyptians, and the Egyptian scam is ever-changing.
First of all, the Egyptians did business and never paid attention to the relationship between supply and demand.
Buy a bottle of water for 5 Egyptian pounds, you give him 10 Egyptian pounds, the vendor will not ask you for money, if you have to ask for an explanation, he will smile and give you another bottle.
Some people pay dollars for things and get change back with Egyptian currency, which is long gone.
It has no monetary attributes, but it is highly collectible.
When you are seventy or eighty, you will also sigh: Ah, what kind of coin is this?
There are still ways to avoid asking for tips and forcing you to buy and sell in China, but you can only pay obediently for your personal safety due to language barriers and inconvenient communication abroad.
A few days ago, a blogger shared his trip to Egypt, the fare was 200 pounds, and the driver asked them for 500 pounds, because the locals have mastered some common Chinese, and he and his girlfriend chose to sing a duet to complain about their experience of being deceived.
Xiaohongshu user @Vibes handsome guy Jessica
Some people look at jokes, some people look in the mirror.
If you plan to take pictures in the scenic spot, there will be a group of people who will enthusiastically take the initiative to take a photo with you, and when you finish taking pictures, you will immediately change your face, and ask you for money.
Some people say that he accidentally photographed a camel in the scenic spot in 17 years and was almost slaughtered 100 times.
The bad news is that the scam still exists in 2024.
The worse news is that now Egyptians will trick your camera into taking your hands under the pretense of taking pictures, first people and then camels, and you won't give the camera if you don't pay for it.
Unbeknownst to naïve tourists, Egyptians and camels are already secretly bidding prices.
Netizen spicy comment: The last time I made such an unequal transaction, it was with the monkeys of Mount Emei.
In the end, you are distraught by the scammers, and you happen to meet a normal staff member with a work card on his chest, and he will gently remind you: be careful, there are too many scammers here, you need to be careful.
The Tourist Police is just 100 meters away from you, and you feel like you've finally gained security for a short time.
He told you that you need to buy a ticket from him to enter the pyramid and take you through the artificial passage, but you didn't know that you had already entered the thief's den and counted the money by the way.
After sending you out and asking you for a valuable tip, you realized that the previous kind reminder was nothing more than worrying about your wool, and you could only let him be alone.
In the end, you can only comfort yourself with a wry smile: really high-end scammers often come in the form of teammates.
In Egypt, many scammers cooperate with each other's interests, and they can cheat money at airport security, hotels, taxis, and currency exchange.
From Luxor to Cairo, from the Temple of Karnak to the ancient city of Memphis, Arabic is like the professional spell of the Egyptian god of wealth, and as soon as the hawkers start chanting, someone's wallet will go bankrupt.
But I have to say that compared to a certain country that buys zero yuan at every turn, the Egyptians are still very martial:
Obviously, they can grab hard, but they will always find a way to go and ask for it.
Someone took a carriage, the price changed 3 times along the way, and when he left, he was kidnapped by the horseman morality: the horse is really tired from working all day, you should tip it a few more dollars.
It's not hard to understand why people returning from Egypt are surprisingly vigilant, and after a few real scams, you can't help but be suspicious:
"If this seemingly honest man didn't lie to me, is there a bigger scam brewing?"
Egyptians have many liars, which is the result of geographical, historical, political, and economic macro effects.
Reflected in real life, the lowest factor is: deception, which can make them get something for nothing.
When everyone can't eat enough and can't find a job, they all want to seize the opportunity to cheat a little more.
Tourists look at Egypt's past, but Egypt's poor people don't see the future either.
Some bloggers described Egypt as follows: It is a representative of bullying the weak and fearing the hard, and it is also a model of the law of the jungle.
Although the Egyptian scam focuses on a rainy dew, it is obvious that "Chinese" can always get more favor from foreign friends.
In their eyes, as the fattest and tender leeks, the Chinese deserve the best goods and the most expensive prices.
Douyin user @张猫猫adventure設
First use "I love China" to dispel your psychological defense, and then use a few words of non-fluent Chinese: "Good friend, free" to get closer to you.
When your national pride rises, they will say the most proficient sentence: "I want the yuan." ”
"1 is not too little, 10 is better. "The change in attitude that makes you feel that it is the emotion they deliver that is cheaper than the commodity.
Xiaohongshu user @青椒開開開�
Even Egyptian children know that the best way to deceive Chinese is to familiarize themselves with Chinese culture.
When a tourist went to Egypt during the Chinese New Year, a group of children chased him with red envelopes and shouted "Happy New Year" as he walked, at first he thought it was a welcome gift prepared by the locals to welcome them, but the result was to ask the tourists to stuff money into their wallets.
After all, there is still a cultural barrier between the Egyptian people and us, but if he has lived in a traditional Chinese family for a year and a half, he can understand why my 30-year-old single unmarried friend chose to travel abroad during the Chinese New Year.
Of course, not all Egyptians are liars.
The behavior of stealing customers can be everywhere, whether it is at home or abroad, we have long acquiesced that scenic spots can ask for sky-high prices.
Optimistic Chinese pay attention: come and come, don't be too disappointed.
Especially when you go to a strange country, you are afraid of being greedy for small and cheap and suffering big losses, and it is a good policy to break the wealth and avoid disasters.
What's more, they have empathized with the liars: the reason why they want to cheat is because they are poor, so they should be considered poverty alleviation.
The habit of sympathizing with the weak seems to be a common problem of our nation.
When my friend went to Egypt, he negotiated with a vendor, and the vendor said that he had children to raise at home, and he didn't talk about it again until he was 5% off, and as a result, every vendor he met in those three days had children to raise.
You think you're just a misjudgment that you have overlooked, but you don't know that you've been part of the liars' play.
You think that your kindness will bring them a better life, but in fact, it only encourages their ability to cheat.
No one travels thousands of miles to a strange country to travel to prevent fraud, let alone take money to help the poor.
Because the Chinese cannot bear to refuse the kindness of others.
Because the Chinese will brainwash themselves and suffer losses, which is a blessing.
So we deserve to be wronged?
Indeed, in the past two years, everyone has wanted to open, although travel is expensive, the price of freedom is higher.
But there are too many Chinese, and the Qingming three-day holiday is crowded everywhere, and the popular attractions are all full.
Especially this year, the tourism bureaus in various parts of the country have collectively opened up their minds, publicized their strengths and avoided their weaknesses, and spoiled tourists in terms of service.
Zibo is on fire, and the Eight Bureaus invited provincial-level painters to set up stalls on the street.
Harbin is out of the circle, and even the foxes in the mountains come out to work overtime.
Tianshui ushered in the wealth of the sky, and the spicy hot boss who didn't like to laugh was also interviewed by the official because of his expression management.
Douyin user @天水旅
We are accustomed to being treated sincerely in a place, so we will get bored and helpless with shoddy scams.
Every blogger who has been deceived in Egypt has complained with an attitude of hatred: If there were fewer bad things, I would really fall in love with this country.
If you think about the popular attractions in China, they are all based on a well-intentioned environment.
When we go out to travel, we want to change the environment and change the mood, in our cultural education: those who come from afar are guests, and we can't let others see jokes.
It wasn't until I really met the "tourist assassin" that I realized that a sense of security was more important than I imagined.
It's the annual tourist season again, whether it's a domestic tour or a foreign trip, let's do our homework before setting off, and take the heart of defense on the road.
Even if you can't go both ways, it's a unique experience and a special memory.
After all, we still have such an old saying in China: the world is big, and the happiness is the greatest.