i film em every time i see em on the beach this is the UK m8 ill film what i want ,a carefully shouted its in his hand helps as does the id like to make a counter bet at your odds of 3-1 - i say the ball us under none of em n if you touch em = you lose m8 , either way he dead in the water ,epectially if genuine people are watching
I live in London and rest assured the lot is fake for views. The bridge is heavily CCTV up, as soon as a crowd would form, the police would disperse the group. With added stop and searches under pace for drugs.
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One thing you can notice: when someone is filming, not only the scammer is asking to stop, but also all his accomplices. In the real life, why a passerby would be angry if someone was filming?
Once in India, I tried to stop one person from playing this game in the railway general compartment while returning to my hometown, but men from this group threatened to throw me out from running the train. and out of fear I simply step back and watch a person losing his 7 days salary to this gang.
I don’t blame you. You’re endangering yourself if you act, for what is basically just a financial crime at this point (and might become a violent crime if you persist). People can call me a coward all they want, but when I see this, I call the cops and leave. If they won’t act on it, why should I?
They have a load of look outs placed in any direction that the police can approach from and as such are able to get themselves away before the police are able to reach them. I see these types of scams all the time whenever I visit London (I am from there originally and visit fairly often) and occasionally the police manage to catch a few of them (as well as occasionally preventing them from setting up at all). The only thing that I have been able to do is try to stop people making any bets by verbally warning them. Though the problem with doing that is that I have rarely been watching the game and as such I don't know who is a plant. They also do NOT like you doing it and have been threatened by these types of thugs on numerous occasions and have even had to fight to defend myself from them trying to use force to remove me. However I will continue to try to warn people whenever I see these set up. I will say that along the south bank and on London bridge, IE the one right next to the houses of parliament (the irony being that the amount of police a stones throw away from them as a result) seems to be the most popular areas for them to setup.
@@tiloalomate those types of officers are being used to catch the nearly endless street dealers and shoplifting gangs. You would need an awfully huge series of coincidences for there to be both a plain clothes officer free and in the right area as well. It's occasionally been a focus for them (I have witnessed a few of them getting busted a couple of times in the last decade), but by and large it's bluntly going to have to be uniform or nothing I am afraid.
@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS lol, and that's probably the problem with the police. Why can't a regular agent work without uniform once or twice per week to focus on this kind of delinquent? Catch them several times and they won't be an issue anymore. Let them do and they just multiply. Paris is almost not bearable anymore with the crazy amount of scams/harassment going on.
It's not only the scam you have to be careful of. On a very busy day on Westminster Bridge, a crowd gathers around the game to watch. The scammers then have pickpockets scanning the distracted crowd for easy picks. I'd throw them all in the Thames if it were up to me.
I also was filming this scam in Paris at the Eifeltower bridge in Paris last month, as soon as i got my phone out the "players" got upset and told me to stop. I was waiting for an actual tourist to come by to stop them, but nobody was coming, then all of a sudden they stopped the ball game and the scammers walked out in different directions
This scam has a specific name in French: Bonneteau. Good to know to Google or tell the French police. Thank you for doing that too, you might have saved a person from getting scammed. 👍
tbh I have little compassion for the people who fall for it (as well as the Belarusian ruble scam), if you dumb enough to fall for it then you deserve it 😂
These people are not idiots. They get lured in emotionally it’s not about rational thinking. It’s an incredibly simple game. They make it seem like everyone else (the other scammers) can’t see the obvious that’s how they lure you in
I'm also surprised about it, as I have known these kind of scams since I was a kid, as they were mentioning them in the news. I guess that young people these days are in their bubble and that's how they have enough victims to make it profitable
This has happened to me many times before (the offer to participate, not actually being scammed), I am from NYC, and this was a common scam growing up usually with cards (three-card monte), and works in a similar way. I've called out these guys twice recently, once in Paris and the other in London, where I saw some tourists about to participate. I recorded and in both instances, I was told not to film, I told them I didn't care, and they got aggressive, I responded with an equal amount of aggression and they backed off. Both times the tourists left without participating and in London they left the spot (Tower Bridge). This is very common and it's a shame. It even occurs at swap shops in the US, which is where I was most recently accosted for a game of three-card monte. These guys need to be arrested.
Scam the scammers: Bet on one cup, but open only the other two to show the ball ISN'T there. If the ball isn't in two cups, it has to be in the third cup... 😇😇😇🤑🤑🤑
@@HisMajestyDD - for me its a different story because i am from the same country they are, that is why i don't have that mentality, they have teeth to lose. You have all the right to get you're money back after u got scammed because what they do is illegal. If we meet on the street and i do a wallet trick and take ur' wallet, i do not think you will say "haaa u got me ok, bye bye" I think u will try to get ur wallet back. Problem here is turists think its a fair game. Passive attitude is the main problem.
7:26 I watched that guy's "performance" for several minutes last year in Budapest's Citadella (a remote spot, especially with the Citadella closed at the time, but still touristic enough for him to scam people). Some people were losing stupidly and I was almost tempted to play after he invited me. But then I thought "If this guy is here, it's because somehow he keeps making money from us", so I didn't play. After your first video about this topic, I realised that the "stupid" people "losing" were his scamming friends. Regarding the real scammed people, I can tell you that two US citizens lost literally hundreds of Euros in less than 5 minutes
Hey, thanks for responding to my comment! One of the people who responded to me said, that there was no detailed explanation to the trick in order to not entice people to try outsmarting the scammers. I agree to that and I'm glad you sort of said the same in this video, so good job. Can't wait for more scammer videos!
I was on vacation in Los Angeles, CA like 20 years ago and saw someone doing the cups and balls. I watched for a few minutes and almost jumped in on it, when I saw the same women for the third time play and win saying the same thing the previous 2 times. I realized quickly that there was at least 3 other people in on it. So I just walked away. I assumed the scam was to pickpocket tourists while they watched and as I had a big backpack on, I kept moving around while watching so I couldn't be easily pick pocketed.
Poland here! I saw this scam for the first time in...Zakopane. It was like 10 years ago, a friend of mine got scammed, although I told her not to "play". I was just suspicious, the whole game looked shady. She learned her lesson.
This is why people need to play an online game like Runescape, at least when I got scammed when I was 12 it was for fake currency and I'd never fall for this, nor would anyone else who has fallen for similar scams before. But when you're never scammed and fall for one in real life it hits a lot harder
I lived in London for two years, they used to run this scam near my gym and I’d just sit back and watch after my workouts for up to an hour sometimes. They’re scum, they work together and sometimes the bystanders are pickpockets too.
You are kind Janek and Honza. The truth is, people let their greed and their false sense of intelligence to get themselves scammed. It is Nemozne to win! On another note, I miss Czechia (I still want to say Czech Republic) and will be taking my Czechia babies there next month from USA to visit for the first time - they get to see their family history and cultura.
These scammers operate on a bridge near the London Eye because it's always full of tourists. They first get an insider to play and win the money to make it look like its easy. I feel bad for people who fall for this and end up getting scammed. The police really need to do more about these scams
Thank you so much for calling that scammer out. I was in London a couple of months ago and I noticed the scam on every corner. It was so obvious but I'm seeing people lose their money and I'm not that person to just tell people in person that they're getting scammed. I need to get a little bit of a backbone and tell people directly to their faces that they are scamming people
I saw a guy at the Eiffel Tower being pressured into betting 180 euros. He did it and lost, unbelievable watching the "peers" pressure him. Just amazed people fall for this. Madness
8:50 I saw this group in Paris months ago, I already knew they were scammers. I remember the main guy, the lady with the dark glasses, minutes later the army arrived and everyone stopped and started making poker faces haha
@@a_921 Usually people will know because a scam fails to deliver what it promises in some way. Even in a rigged game like this people will generally know they have been cheated after the fact, like the Tiktok girl.
@@weltvonalex@tyrgoossens the only stupid person/sucker is the person who thinks they could never be scammed, because people who get scammed are stupid. You might not fall for the cups and balls scam, because you already know about it. But I guarantee you there are scams out there that you don't already know about, scams that you would fall for. For most people the thing that stops them falling for scams is the good fortune of not being presented with the scam they aren't prepared for. Unfortunately, most people mistake that for thinking they are too smart to be scammed.
I almost got scammed today in London. Well I did but I got my money back as I threatened to call the police. Then they scammed another guy. I was so furious I stepped in and said I have it recorded and I would call the police if they didn’t give him the money back. It was disgusting to watch people falling for it. Shameless Romanians
I see these types of scams all the time whenever I visit London (I am from there originally and visit fairly often) and occasionally the police manage to catch a few of them (as well as occasionally preventing them from setting up at all). The only thing that I have been able to do is try to stop people making any bets by verbally warning them. Though the problem with doing that is that I have rarely been watching the game and as such I don't know who is a plant. They also do NOT like you doing it and have been threatened by these types of thugs on numerous occasions and have even had to fight to defend myself from them trying to use force to remove me. However I will continue to try to warn people whenever I see these set up. I will say that along the south bank and on London bridge, IE the one right next to the houses of parliament (the irony being that the amount of police a stones throw away from them as a result) seems to be the most popular areas for them to setup.
it's pretty easy to tell who the plants are they all stand neatly round, have the same 'look'/clothes, seem excited to play, are terrible actors, have a bunch of cash and they actually win. They have threatened me a few times when I have filmed them. They like Westminster bridge (next to Parliament) due to the number of tourists there to take photos and because they can have lookouts at each end of the bridge to let them know if anyone is coming so they just can pack up/split up.
Like you, I can't believe the return of this game and how many people are being scammed. I remember seeing this game as a kid in the 90s and ruining their scam guessing where the ball is. I didn't know that it was organized by Gypsies and that it was dangerous. But I was a kid so the moment I said "he has a ball in his hand" and then the older man who was playing the game picked up all 3 cups. He noticed they were cheating and stopped playing. The scammers lost their patience and became aggressive and told me to leave or else I'd get punched. To a 7 year old kid. Janek, thank you for your videos - you're doing a great job. Greetings from Poland. We are planning a trip to Prague for autumn, so maybe see you ;)
Western populations are a lot more naive to it I expect. I’ve seen it done in magic and even given it a go terribly lol but never as a scam on the streets of England in my lifetime so I can see how people would easily fall for it here.
I don't live in BR anymore, but I remember this scam was quite common in downtown São Paulo - Brazil, but I wouldn't ever dare to call out them (or other scammers in Brazil), it's very risky, you can get stabbed or shot easily. Remember folks, do not challenge/call out scammers in Latin America, it's not like Europe.
Absolutely agree, and it doesn't matter which country, this region it's too violent. Calling out scammers the way he does in these videos would get yourself killed the same day, or the next if you're lucky.
This cup and ball scam would never happen in Liverpool the UK as the scammers would get beat up be the people of Liverpool. It only happens in London as its the tourists that they pray on and not the natives.
There was a similar game in New York City in the 1980s (often in Times Square, which at the time was a very scary and dangerous place for a tourist to venture into.) It was called Three-Card Monte (or "Find the Lady," because the challenge was to find the Queen among the three face-down playing cards.) At one point, the police department posted signs reading "You can't win. You won't win. You will never win."
It is interesting : because here in paris those scammers are usually always in the same areas...but there is no sign to prevent anyone, it is very frustrating
When I was in London in February of this year, I saw the exact same scam on the exact same bridge. I snuck a video, they did not like that. Was able to play it off as if I was filming something else. It makes sense why people who film don't step in (10:04): those people are aware that there are ~10 people involved in the scam, and they also know that it is hard to keep track of the scammers that surround them. Furthermore, you're dealing with criminals who have no moral issue with stealing multiple 100s of dollars from innocent, hardworking people, dressed in tracksuits. You better have excellent self-defence skills for when that real threat materialises. I really wonder though: why isn't there police on this bridge? It's a highly frequented area for tourists, and these scammers are always there. It's the easiest arrest ever. Fish in a barrel!
Cups and balls is literally one of the oldest tricks in the book - around 2000 years old actually. The trick by itself is not necessarily a scam, but only is once money is involved. When done properly the cups and balls/three card monte/three shell game can be genuinely amazing to watch but it's a shame these guys only care about robbing people of their money. But then again it has been around for so long that it's hard to feel compassion for those who give in to this game
Thank you. The video host is just amazed that this scam is "making a comeback." It's not making a comeback. It never left. As you noted, greed and foolishness are as old as time. And if these small scale scammers weren't keeping busy like this, they would be running for office and end up doing real harm.
NOOOOOO! I hate these guys. It's so annoying that the police haven't arrested them all already! They set up on Westminster bridge right in the middle of London, next to the Houses of Parliament. I'm so disappointed in my country.
I'm from the UK. There's no expectation of privacy in public spaces, especially on the streets, no matter if they say it's a private event. They're not above the law. We are allowed to film anywhere in the UK, including inside of government buildings. The only exception is private property, such as shops, stores or restaurants but generally they don't mind. So technically those guys can not tell you "you're not allowed to film".
I mean I caught the switch when you did it the first time but I had 2 advantages A) I already knew how it was done B) You haven't spent years perfecting your craft of running the cup and balls game. When a pro does it they won't make a mistake on the switch it will be smooth enough that in the moment no chance you're going to see it but you can still play the mind game with them because they want to make sure that you "know" which one it's under so if they make it obvious that that one is right then you know for sure it isn't right but all that does is still puts you at a 50/50 guess or even worse if they are doing 4 or 5 cups/cards. The common sense information to remember is that they wouldn't do it if they thought they were going to lose, do you see casinos offering games where the odds you double your money purely based on a 1/3 guess? No because that would be absolutely insane amounts of risk for the casino to take.
It's not legal here either, but these guys get arrested, then let back out, and then they're at it all over again and that just repeats itself. There's a whole crowd of them who will pretend to play and win just to get tourists engaged. What else is also irritating is that they take up literally an entire pavement, forcing people to walk on the cycle lanes and sometimes the road which is incredibly busy and that then slows down traffic. But the police in the UK these days are so frightened to do anything against anybody who is not white out of fear they're going to be called racists.
Can you actually force people to walk on the road like this? Can't I just move that? Do I call the police for them obstructing the walk?@@EpicTutorialTips
Went to London back in 2011 game was still going on then. The sleight of hand of these guys is quite impressive. My dad who I was traveling with got offered to play and he started exposing the scam and ridiculing the scammers and people who were playing. He said things like: - The ball is in his hand! There is never a ball under the cups and so on. And tried telling the other tourists that the other gamblers who were winning were in on it. They didn’t like that very much and quickly got quite threatening. I calmed the situation down and said it pretty much wasn’t worth it and we went on our way. As you said they have a crowd of people with them who keep a lookout for law enforcement and act as people who win. The game is very portable and easy to pick up and leg it when the cops approach them.
Recently, I saw people do this scam, and one person decided to play the game. He played dumb and said: "So the rules are that I have to guess where the ball is right?" and the scammer said yes. He knew about this and litterally grabbed his hand and took the ball. There were a ton of people around the game so the scammer got pushed into eventually giving him his money before he ran away.
From the images, there is another scam that you should be aware of while on these bridges, there are spotters at each end, while another pickpocketers team are stealing your mobile phones or wallets. The worst part is that this is happening next to Big Ben and New Scotland Yard.
I never actually seen this cup&balls thing in Kiev, or in Ukraine in geleral. Our guys prefer more legal "scam", where they'd set some challenge, that seems really easy, but you actually can't do it if you don't know the trick and didn't trained it. Like climb up a special rope ladder or something like that. But technically it's not a scam, because you can do it, it's just hard, so I guess it's more or less legal. And I guess it's even more proffitable than this cups and balls game, cause you don't need to pay other people, and even though one try of the challenge is much cheaper, usually around few bucks per try, but you'll have a lot of participants.
They do not like not only filming, but even close look at their group sends them somewhere else. Just look longer and stare at the "player" and his entourage a little with a nasty little smile on your face. If this is done by man, age around 40 and good physical condition, the whole group gets away. And when you find them in the next place, they get away even quicker. I "played" this "stare closely" game with them around Montmartre in Paris.
Well they know the British and French populations are more naive to the trick but they also know the good morals of our law and populations could have very bad consequences for them
@@honeybadger9425 Well, you could argue that most of the victims in these videos are tourists from other countries. Best way of getting rid of this is organising in groups and patrolling the streets. See any sort of scam, basically threaten them to stop doing it or else, then proceed in following them around the city. They will quickly stop doing it. Or better yet, hire more police and ask them to actually do their bloody jobs.
Also in Berlin this weekend they were playing. Right on Checkpoint Charley. I was trying to warn people but they still played. For like 30 minutes at least and no cops around at all.
Love the idea but as you see on clips many times they use feet to show the cups.. so only works if you have same objects as they do AND if you can use hands
I honestly just stood there and watched them scam. There is way to many of them and they are aggressive and all working together. Sometimes you just got to let nature take its course.
The cups and balls/ shell game is one of the oldest scams on earth, going back literally thousands of years. There are references to it in Ancient Greek and Roman literature, and possible depictions from Ancient Egypt. Versions are found in cultures around the world. It's genuinely kinda impressive that it's still got the power to fleece people.
People should train to discreetly swap in items as theyre picking up the cup to scam the scammers. Carry a soft ball of each color with you and when you see which ball the scammer is using, discreetly palm your replacement ball and swap it in when you lift the cup
@@hippopotamus86 you come up in a group that's also in it with you and have a brawl if they refuse to pay. Either way everyone gets arrested so win win!
@@Josh-wu7kz he can just as sneakily get rid of it while you ask him that. But this way, he won't know what hit him! An archer never expects the target to shoot back
When he asks which cup has the ball, or where the ball is you say its in his hand. And as long as he has his hands free at the time and not in his pockets or anywhere, its going to be obvious if he doesn't immediately open his hands up. If he bends down to lift the cups up you can call him out for trying to put the ball back. So if you timed it for when his hands were free from his body by pretending to look at the cups and look like your thinking about, you could catch him out.
2010, one my friends got scammed on a corner in Spain (Benidorm). We laughed at him and told him they were scammers 😅 He ran down the street and kicked theire table 50ft in the air 😂Scammers ran away in all directions in panic 😂
Hey there, I just wanted to thank you for uncovering the popular scams in Prague. Now it also happened to me. A shady person on my train boarded my train to Hamburg and pretended to live also go there. He said he doesn't have money and his wife will give it back in Germany also showing me a German number. I gave him 12€ stupid as I was but I would love you to catch someone and make fun of them.
I mean, if you engage with some shady looking gypsy guy on the street for a gamble of money, you're pretty much asking for it at this point. How can you trust these people?
When you are looking from the outside and there is no real victim in front of the scammer, but one of his co-workers, you will always see where the ball is. When you are in front of the scammer with the three cups and the ball, only then, the ball is hidden.
I’m not a good sport about loosing money, when it happened to me in Paris I threatened to call the police if they didn’t give me the money back and they immediately gave me the money back and started cursing in their own language and run off
Don't spoil your holiday getting involved trying to stop them. You don't know how many or how aggressive they may be with you. Don't forget many of these people are in crime gangs/mafias
@@rsmith02 Doesn't mean you have to become a vigilante yourself. You are making yourself and people you know aware of the scams, but not a call to arms to tackling organized crime gangs
Be careful filming in Germany: It is illegal to film or photograph people without their consent in Germany, so potentially you could be in trouble if the cops come.
It's slightly different than that. It is illegal to, create or transmit a photograph or video of another person without consent when that person is in a private premises or room that is protected from public view, because that translates to a violation of that person’s intimate privacy. Nor is it allowed to film or photograph people if it shows their helplessness (accident victims, drunk people, nude people, homeless people). Photographing or filming scammers on the street in itself therefore is not illegal in Germany, as the scammers are not in a place where one can reasonably expect privacy, nor are these scammers generally helpless people. Publishing these photos or videos on the other hand is a different ballgame, as also scammers still have portrait rights in the end. But then again, I don't think the police would mind it too much if you would expose scammers with these photos and videos, as that makes the lives of the police a bit easier again. :)
@@fidgetspinner343 Checked the video. Seemed like just a very unfortunate experience due to some crazy paranoid cow making false accusations rather than to mind her own business. Maybe she falls into the helplessness category. 😜 That still doesn't change the fact it's not necessarily in all cases illegal to film or photograph people in Germany without their consent, but rather the publishing of these photos and/or videos where things become more legally challenging.
Westminster bridge every single day. Cheap cigarettes, trash brands, bad shaves and shifty looks - always at least three others in on it. Soon as the cops come the board is folded and they scatter.
When I was in London I ALMOST felt on this trick. And I like to think that I am pretty intelligent person. They move cups only several times and you obviously "know" where the ball is. I almost bet 20 pounds, but then I realized it cannot be so easy. My thoughts were that they take your money BEFORE the game (they do so in London) and if you win, they give you back false bills.
6:46 Getting the money from another scammer, would also be a good way for the scammer to dump the ball in his pockets if he decides to pocket the money too
6:33 "She's pretending to be that stupid person playing so when you're watching this you're like 'Oh, she's so stupid, it's obvious on the side' " So the "fake customer" tactic uses a phenomenon called social proof, which states that people are more likely to do something if they see others doing it. It's kinda weird the woman "lost", though. I'd expect them to do a bait-and-switch, which is letting the fake customer win to make you more confident, but then cheat against you to make sure you can't win.
you see the fake customer win some, then you se another fake customer lose and think to yourself "NOOO, he took the wrong cup! obviously it's under the other cup" - it makes you feel like you could have done better. And some ppl fall for that and actually try it themselves.
Biggest scam in Poland well known is prices. Lot of people (even Poles) have no clue about the prices. Lot of places, where tourists are welcomed are scams themselves. Average pricing on food got increased by 100% (comparing to last year) and lot of restaurants increased it by 150%. Most of people don't realize, there is a trick called "SCAM", when you pay 50% more than you should. Many people will no agree with me, but that's a fact. Tourists don't know the economics and that's normal for them to compare currencies. For example this 200zł is not 50 EUR, is less, it's around 40-45 EUR (depends on month). If you wanna get scammed almost everywhere thinking, you buy cheap meal, then welcome to Poland. Beautiful country, where tourists are scammed with hug overpriced meals.
I've come across scammers playing this con in Paris usual plot with lookouts etc. I'm surprised they get away with it in London with the amount of Police in the area.
I saw a woman get scammed in central Barcelona. The scammer said "How much money have you got. Show me" and she opened her purse. He put his hand in and took all her money, and she let him. The police were maybe 20 metres away.
If I was the governer or the president I don't care how corrupt I'd have to be but I would get rid of every single scammer by force. I was taught hospitality and respect as extremely important. Seeing tourists spending thousands to see my country and then get scammed would make me explode.
If, like Janek @10:03. you don't understand why people don't step in and warn other tourists, look no further than a powerful three-card monte story that Dave Chappelle tells in his stand up routine, "Unforgiven". Long story short, Dave was lucky that he walked away with a life-changing lesson instead of a trip to the hospital or worse. Don't get me wrong--taking an ethical stand is admirable and often needed--but it's understandably balanced with a dose of reality and self-preservation...not many people are willing to jeopardize their safety (and, if married and/or with young children, the lives of those who depend on them) just to prevent a fool from being parted from their money.
I tried to stand up against those scammers during my last visit to Paris in 2019. They attacked me, the police were patrolling nearby, when I reached them to report. Police said those are scammers, stay away from them. 😅😅😅
I’m so glad my upbringing form my dad was the way it was. I’m always so sceptical of people like this and rightly so. Complete scumbags, I’d hate to get into trouble for losing my temper if they tried scamming me. I find it insulting.
if u get scammed by such people.. you clearly lack the intelligence to be eligible for raising children sadly... anyone can have kids nowadays... thats why she exists.
Kees van der Spek (Dutch documentary maker) made a long series about this in different countries. In some episodes he exposes them all and gets into physical fights with the scammers. Also he shows HOW they cheat tourists. And he filmed it all via hidden camera's.
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i film em every time i see em on the beach
this is the UK m8 ill film what i want ,a carefully shouted its in his hand helps
as does the id like to make a counter bet at your odds of 3-1 - i say the ball us under none of em n if you touch em = you lose m8 , either way he dead in the water ,epectially if genuine people are watching
I live in London and rest assured the lot is fake for views. The bridge is heavily CCTV up, as soon as a crowd would form, the police would disperse the group. With added stop and searches under pace for drugs.
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Random idea: play the game, but bet with expired Belarusian rubles
To feed them more resources for scamming? Sounds like a bad idea to me. 😂
@@ruipeixoto5737 It's the circle of scams
Or monopoly money.
Better idea: bet with a strong punch into their face.
It ain’t a game
One thing you can notice: when someone is filming, not only the scammer is asking to stop, but also all his accomplices.
In the real life, why a passerby would be angry if someone was filming?
Once in India, I tried to stop one person from playing this game in the railway general compartment while returning to my hometown, but men from this group threatened to throw me out from running the train. and out of fear I simply step back and watch a person losing his 7 days salary to this gang.
Ouch! Some people really like on needle. And sometimes the salvation of a drowning man is the work of the drowning man himself.
I don’t blame you. You’re endangering yourself if you act, for what is basically just a financial crime at this point (and might become a violent crime if you persist). People can call me a coward all they want, but when I see this, I call the cops and leave. If they won’t act on it, why should I?
@@banjarasoul4808 yes
It's like an idiot filter. If you fall for obvious scams, you deserve the outcome.
@@Tajarim88 what is the percentage of idiots globally?
Honestly, the authorities are also not doing anything... wouldn't be hard to send a couple of policemen to arrest those scammers (in plain clothes)
Gotta go arrest some non inclusive pronoun merderer..
They have a load of look outs placed in any direction that the police can approach from and as such are able to get themselves away before the police are able to reach them.
I see these types of scams all the time whenever I visit London (I am from there originally and visit fairly often) and occasionally the police manage to catch a few of them (as well as occasionally preventing them from setting up at all).
The only thing that I have been able to do is try to stop people making any bets by verbally warning them.
Though the problem with doing that is that I have rarely been watching the game and as such I don't know who is a plant. They also do NOT like you doing it and have been threatened by these types of thugs on numerous occasions and have even had to fight to defend myself from them trying to use force to remove me.
However I will continue to try to warn people whenever I see these set up. I will say that along the south bank and on London bridge, IE the one right next to the houses of parliament (the irony being that the amount of police a stones throw away from them as a result) seems to be the most popular areas for them to setup.
@@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS of course if they come with uniform it's pointless... but they can also work in plain clothes
@@tiloalomate those types of officers are being used to catch the nearly endless street dealers and shoplifting gangs. You would need an awfully huge series of coincidences for there to be both a plain clothes officer free and in the right area as well.
It's occasionally been a focus for them (I have witnessed a few of them getting busted a couple of times in the last decade), but by and large it's bluntly going to have to be uniform or nothing I am afraid.
@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS lol, and that's probably the problem with the police. Why can't a regular agent work without uniform once or twice per week to focus on this kind of delinquent?
Catch them several times and they won't be an issue anymore. Let them do and they just multiply. Paris is almost not bearable anymore with the crazy amount of scams/harassment going on.
It's not only the scam you have to be careful of. On a very busy day on Westminster Bridge, a crowd gathers around the game to watch. The scammers then have pickpockets scanning the distracted crowd for easy picks.
I'd throw them all in the Thames if it were up to me.
I also was filming this scam in Paris at the Eifeltower bridge in Paris last month, as soon as i got my phone out the "players" got upset and told me to stop. I was waiting for an actual tourist to come by to stop them, but nobody was coming, then all of a sudden they stopped the ball game and the scammers walked out in different directions
This scam has a specific name in French: Bonneteau. Good to know to Google or tell the French police. Thank you for doing that too, you might have saved a person from getting scammed. 👍
@@swedishveganshow were they romanians?
@HerbertPetra no, they were from Dubai
I encourage more people in London to film these people, it is your legal right to film anyone in public in the UK so don't let them tell you otherwise
never stop filming these scams everyone. It's resurgence in popularity is most likely related to the number of idiots that we are surrounded by.
tbh I have little compassion for the people who fall for it (as well as the Belarusian ruble scam), if you dumb enough to fall for it then you deserve it 😂
These people are not idiots. They get lured in emotionally it’s not about rational thinking. It’s an incredibly simple game. They make it seem like everyone else (the other scammers) can’t see the obvious that’s how they lure you in
@@AMultipolarWorldIsEmerging No, sorry. They are idiots
I'm also surprised about it, as I have known these kind of scams since I was a kid, as they were mentioning them in the news. I guess that young people these days are in their bubble and that's how they have enough victims to make it profitable
Once you get their faces on camera they're in big trouble.
This has happened to me many times before (the offer to participate, not actually being scammed), I am from NYC, and this was a common scam growing up usually with cards (three-card monte), and works in a similar way. I've called out these guys twice recently, once in Paris and the other in London, where I saw some tourists about to participate. I recorded and in both instances, I was told not to film, I told them I didn't care, and they got aggressive, I responded with an equal amount of aggression and they backed off. Both times the tourists left without participating and in London they left the spot (Tower Bridge). This is very common and it's a shame. It even occurs at swap shops in the US, which is where I was most recently accosted for a game of three-card monte. These guys need to be arrested.
That’s exactly what it is, I actually have a bit of respect for them because it takes skill to do the moves.
same in italy nobody does it anymore but it is called gioco delle tre carte which translates to the three cards game@@timehunter9467
@@timehunter9467it takes skills yes. But the honest are able to use that skill for good, like Penn and Teller.
Dont EVER play with these criminals
11:12 the "crowd" scammers are even wearing the scammer uniform 😂
Exactly, if you can't spot the alias immediately by how they dress you aren't very perceptive
Scam the scammers: Bet on one cup, but open only the other two to show the ball ISN'T there. If the ball isn't in two cups, it has to be in the third cup... 😇😇😇🤑🤑🤑
I guess they will give your money back (or not even that) and roughly tell you to go away
ANYBODY who tells you that you can't film in a public place deserves to be filmed intensely.
Ridiculous nonsense.
I guess people rarely intervene because these scammers are often violent. As for Hanka: she probably made her money back through monetization
that's probably pocket money for her what she lost 😂
"monetization" you mean flashing a tit on OF ? 😂
they are not vilent, they bluff a violent attitude
if you punch one, they will all run like cockroaches in different directions
@@damiresq I don't think you should risk though. These scumbags will most likely outnumber you and probably have nothing to lose.
@@HisMajestyDD - for me its a different story because i am from the same country they are, that is why i don't have that mentality, they have teeth to lose.
You have all the right to get you're money back after u got scammed because what they do is illegal.
If we meet on the street and i do a wallet trick and take ur' wallet, i do not think you will say "haaa u got me ok, bye bye"
I think u will try to get ur wallet back.
Problem here is turists think its a fair game.
Passive attitude is the main problem.
7:26 I watched that guy's "performance" for several minutes last year in Budapest's Citadella (a remote spot, especially with the Citadella closed at the time, but still touristic enough for him to scam people). Some people were losing stupidly and I was almost tempted to play after he invited me. But then I thought "If this guy is here, it's because somehow he keeps making money from us", so I didn't play. After your first video about this topic, I realised that the "stupid" people "losing" were his scamming friends. Regarding the real scammed people, I can tell you that two US citizens lost literally hundreds of Euros in less than 5 minutes
Hey, thanks for responding to my comment! One of the people who responded to me said, that there was no detailed explanation to the trick in order to not entice people to try outsmarting the scammers. I agree to that and I'm glad you sort of said the same in this video, so good job. Can't wait for more scammer videos!
I do wonder now how they would react if someone pointed at their hand.
Would be interesting for someone to place another ball of their own when lifting the cup lol, just need to see where they buy them from
Just topple all the cups to prove them scammers.
Exactly. Just expose them. But I guess if you don't know the scam then you think you really lost a fair game.
And then have the whole mob of 10 angry scammers come right at you. Great idea.
@@gargaduk Some of them are women so don't count, but why not bring friends, why not call the police?
I was on vacation in Los Angeles, CA like 20 years ago and saw someone doing the cups and balls. I watched for a few minutes and almost jumped in on it, when I saw the same women for the third time play and win saying the same thing the previous 2 times. I realized quickly that there was at least 3 other people in on it. So I just walked away. I assumed the scam was to pickpocket tourists while they watched and as I had a big backpack on, I kept moving around while watching so I couldn't be easily pick pocketed.
Very true, there is the main scam and then the parasite scammers using the distracted tourist to pickpocket
Poland here! I saw this scam for the first time in...Zakopane. It was like 10 years ago, a friend of mine got scammed, although I told her not to "play". I was just suspicious, the whole game looked shady. She learned her lesson.
This is why people need to play an online game like Runescape, at least when I got scammed when I was 12 it was for fake currency and I'd never fall for this, nor would anyone else who has fallen for similar scams before. But when you're never scammed and fall for one in real life it hits a lot harder
Lol!
I lived in London for two years, they used to run this scam near my gym and I’d just sit back and watch after my workouts for up to an hour sometimes. They’re scum, they work together and sometimes the bystanders are pickpockets too.
You are kind Janek and Honza. The truth is, people let their greed and their false sense of intelligence to get themselves scammed. It is Nemozne to win! On another note, I miss Czechia (I still want to say Czech Republic) and will be taking my Czechia babies there next month from USA to visit for the first time - they get to see their family history and cultura.
I think u still can call i Czech Republic, i mean, on map its called Czechia, but for most of us Czechs it is still Czech Republic :D
@@milanbartl5694never Czechia, always Czech Republic.
@@milanbartl5694 also Czech Republic is just the full name.
These scammers operate on a bridge near the London Eye because it's always full of tourists. They first get an insider to play and win the money to make it look like its easy. I feel bad for people who fall for this and end up getting scammed. The police really need to do more about these scams
Its crazy how there are scammers everywhere
I've not seen this scam in Belgium for at least 20 years. I just assumed they didn't make any more money because everyone knows the scam.
@@tyrgoossens are you living in tourist area ?
And its crazy how its always the same ethnicity
Thank you so much for calling that scammer out. I was in London a couple of months ago and I noticed the scam on every corner. It was so obvious but I'm seeing people lose their money and I'm not that person to just tell people in person that they're getting scammed. I need to get a little bit of a backbone and tell people directly to their faces that they are scamming people
I saw a guy at the Eiffel Tower being pressured into betting 180 euros. He did it and lost, unbelievable watching the "peers" pressure him. Just amazed people fall for this. Madness
8:50 I saw this group in Paris months ago, I already knew they were scammers. I remember the main guy, the lady with the dark glasses, minutes later the army arrived and everyone stopped and started making poker faces haha
There's a sucker born every minute. I don't know how people can keep falling for these very old scams.
For all you know you may have been scammed (by some other scam), a good scam is where the person doesn't realize, even after it happened.
@@a_921 Usually people will know because a scam fails to deliver what it promises in some way. Even in a rigged game like this people will generally know they have been cheated after the fact, like the Tiktok girl.
I cannot understand it, sometimes i think they are a little stupid and or think to high of their own capabilities,
@@weltvonalex@tyrgoossens the only stupid person/sucker is the person who thinks they could never be scammed, because people who get scammed are stupid.
You might not fall for the cups and balls scam, because you already know about it. But I guarantee you there are scams out there that you don't already know about, scams that you would fall for. For most people the thing that stops them falling for scams is the good fortune of not being presented with the scam they aren't prepared for. Unfortunately, most people mistake that for thinking they are too smart to be scammed.
not just old scams but literally ancient scams.. this trick has been done for 1000s of years.
I almost got scammed today in London. Well I did but I got my money back as I threatened to call the police. Then they scammed another guy. I was so furious I stepped in and said I have it recorded and I would call the police if they didn’t give him the money back. It was disgusting to watch people falling for it. Shameless Romanians
I see these types of scams all the time whenever I visit London (I am from there originally and visit fairly often) and occasionally the police manage to catch a few of them (as well as occasionally preventing them from setting up at all).
The only thing that I have been able to do is try to stop people making any bets by verbally warning them.
Though the problem with doing that is that I have rarely been watching the game and as such I don't know who is a plant. They also do NOT like you doing it and have been threatened by these types of thugs on numerous occasions and have even had to fight to defend myself from them trying to use force to remove me.
However I will continue to try to warn people whenever I see these set up. I will say that along the south bank and on London bridge, IE the one right next to the houses of parliament (the irony being that the amount of police a stones throw away from them as a result) seems to be the most popular areas for them to setup.
it's pretty easy to tell who the plants are they all stand neatly round, have the same 'look'/clothes, seem excited to play, are terrible actors, have a bunch of cash and they actually win. They have threatened me a few times when I have filmed them. They like Westminster bridge (next to Parliament) due to the number of tourists there to take photos and because they can have lookouts at each end of the bridge to let them know if anyone is coming so they just can pack up/split up.
Like you, I can't believe the return of this game and how many people are being scammed. I remember seeing this game as a kid in the 90s and ruining their scam guessing where the ball is. I didn't know that it was organized by Gypsies and that it was dangerous. But I was a kid so the moment I said "he has a ball in his hand" and then the older man who was playing the game picked up all 3 cups. He noticed they were cheating and stopped playing. The scammers lost their patience and became aggressive and told me to leave or else I'd get punched. To a 7 year old kid. Janek, thank you for your videos - you're doing a great job. Greetings from Poland. We are planning a trip to Prague for autumn, so maybe see you ;)
i'm not even surprised anymore.... tiktok really did destroy a whole generation
yeah sure because no ones was scam by this before tiktok.
This scam is ancient, one of the oldest magic tricks in the world. Did TikTok cause ancient or medieval people to fall for it too?
The Shell Game is the oldest con in human history. Thousands of years old...if you get scammed in the shell game, you deserve to lose your money.
I've done this as street entertainment as a magician, but I thought the actual scam had more or less died out. Apparently I was wrong 😮
Western populations are a lot more naive to it I expect. I’ve seen it done in magic and even given it a go terribly lol but never as a scam on the streets of England in my lifetime so I can see how people would easily fall for it here.
I don't live in BR anymore, but I remember this scam was quite common in downtown São Paulo - Brazil, but I wouldn't ever dare to call out them (or other scammers in Brazil), it's very risky, you can get stabbed or shot easily. Remember folks, do not challenge/call out scammers in Latin America, it's not like Europe.
It’s so sad.. why people are like that in South America? Because of poverty?
I mean why are they so fckng aggressive contrary to Europeans?
Call them out just come prepared
Absolutely agree, and it doesn't matter which country, this region it's too violent. Calling out scammers the way he does in these videos would get yourself killed the same day, or the next if you're lucky.
"A fool and his money are easily parted." - a saying from Ireland.
Did you mean the bible ? Proverbs 21:20 😉
Yes, a phrase exclusively from Ireland. 🙄
I did not think there was a person on earth who thought this stuff was legit. You learn something new every day.
Theres one born every minute. As the proverb goes....
She did it for content
This cup and ball scam would never happen in Liverpool the UK as the scammers would get beat up be the people of Liverpool. It only happens in London as its the tourists that they pray on and not the natives.
Kent and Essex they would get walloped. Or South London
There was a similar game in New York City in the 1980s (often in Times Square, which at the time was a very scary and dangerous place for a tourist to venture into.) It was called Three-Card Monte (or "Find the Lady," because the challenge was to find the Queen among the three face-down playing cards.) At one point, the police department posted signs reading "You can't win. You won't win. You will never win."
It is interesting : because here in paris those scammers are usually always in the same areas...but there is no sign to prevent anyone, it is very frustrating
it's the same game
When I was in London in February of this year, I saw the exact same scam on the exact same bridge. I snuck a video, they did not like that. Was able to play it off as if I was filming something else.
It makes sense why people who film don't step in (10:04): those people are aware that there are ~10 people involved in the scam, and they also know that it is hard to keep track of the scammers that surround them. Furthermore, you're dealing with criminals who have no moral issue with stealing multiple 100s of dollars from innocent, hardworking people, dressed in tracksuits. You better have excellent self-defence skills for when that real threat materialises.
I really wonder though: why isn't there police on this bridge? It's a highly frequented area for tourists, and these scammers are always there. It's the easiest arrest ever. Fish in a barrel!
Cups and balls is literally one of the oldest tricks in the book - around 2000 years old actually. The trick by itself is not necessarily a scam, but only is once money is involved. When done properly the cups and balls/three card monte/three shell game can be genuinely amazing to watch but it's a shame these guys only care about robbing people of their money. But then again it has been around for so long that it's hard to feel compassion for those who give in to this game
Thank you.
The video host is just amazed that this scam is "making a comeback." It's not making a comeback. It never left. As you noted, greed and foolishness are as old as time. And if these small scale scammers weren't keeping busy like this, they would be running for office and end up doing real harm.
Well, I guess that this has to be trained for a long time. Meanwhile, these artists need to eat.
Because of them some people tend to confuse the majority with the minority
NOOOOOO! I hate these guys. It's so annoying that the police haven't arrested them all already! They set up on Westminster bridge right in the middle of London, next to the Houses of Parliament. I'm so disappointed in my country.
HONEST GUIDE is working with those scammers.
I'm from the UK. There's no expectation of privacy in public spaces, especially on the streets, no matter if they say it's a private event. They're not above the law. We are allowed to film anywhere in the UK, including inside of government buildings. The only exception is private property, such as shops, stores or restaurants but generally they don't mind. So technically those guys can not tell you "you're not allowed to film".
Usually the people filming the scam are not the ones you need to convince that they also are allowed to film in public.
@@shadowman1988also the people doing the scam in the UK, unless they are teenagers, usually are not British.
I mean I caught the switch when you did it the first time but I had 2 advantages A) I already knew how it was done B) You haven't spent years perfecting your craft of running the cup and balls game. When a pro does it they won't make a mistake on the switch it will be smooth enough that in the moment no chance you're going to see it but you can still play the mind game with them because they want to make sure that you "know" which one it's under so if they make it obvious that that one is right then you know for sure it isn't right but all that does is still puts you at a 50/50 guess or even worse if they are doing 4 or 5 cups/cards. The common sense information to remember is that they wouldn't do it if they thought they were going to lose, do you see casinos offering games where the odds you double your money purely based on a 1/3 guess? No because that would be absolutely insane amounts of risk for the casino to take.
Definitely not legal in Germany.
Just call the Police.
It's not legal here either, but these guys get arrested, then let back out, and then they're at it all over again and that just repeats itself. There's a whole crowd of them who will pretend to play and win just to get tourists engaged.
What else is also irritating is that they take up literally an entire pavement, forcing people to walk on the cycle lanes and sometimes the road which is incredibly busy and that then slows down traffic. But the police in the UK these days are so frightened to do anything against anybody who is not white out of fear they're going to be called racists.
Can you actually force people to walk on the road like this? Can't I just move that? Do I call the police for them obstructing the walk?@@EpicTutorialTips
Went to London back in 2011 game was still going on then. The sleight of hand of these guys is quite impressive.
My dad who I was traveling with got offered to play and he started exposing the scam and ridiculing the scammers and people who were playing.
He said things like:
- The ball is in his hand! There is never a ball under the cups and so on. And tried telling the other tourists that the other gamblers who were winning were in on it. They didn’t like that very much and quickly got quite threatening. I calmed the situation down and said it pretty much wasn’t worth it and we went on our way. As you said they have a crowd of people with them who keep a lookout for law enforcement and act as people who win.
The game is very portable and easy to pick up and leg it when the cops approach them.
Recently, I saw people do this scam, and one person decided to play the game. He played dumb and said: "So the rules are that I have to guess where the ball is right?" and the scammer said yes. He knew about this and litterally grabbed his hand and took the ball. There were a ton of people around the game so the scammer got pushed into eventually giving him his money before he ran away.
Good. Love it. That’s how it should be
He was lucky. Usually the people around the game are friends with the scammer. This scam needs multiple people to make it believable.
From the images, there is another scam that you should be aware of while on these bridges, there are spotters at each end, while another pickpocketers team are stealing your mobile phones or wallets. The worst part is that this is happening next to Big Ben and New Scotland Yard.
I never actually seen this cup&balls thing in Kiev, or in Ukraine in geleral. Our guys prefer more legal "scam", where they'd set some challenge, that seems really easy, but you actually can't do it if you don't know the trick and didn't trained it. Like climb up a special rope ladder or something like that.
But technically it's not a scam, because you can do it, it's just hard, so I guess it's more or less legal. And I guess it's even more proffitable than this cups and balls game, cause you don't need to pay other people, and even though one try of the challenge is much cheaper, usually around few bucks per try, but you'll have a lot of participants.
They do not like not only filming, but even close look at their group sends them somewhere else. Just look longer and stare at the "player" and his entourage a little with a nasty little smile on your face. If this is done by man, age around 40 and good physical condition, the whole group gets away. And when you find them in the next place, they get away even quicker. I "played" this "stare closely" game with them around Montmartre in Paris.
Well they know the British and French populations are more naive to the trick but they also know the good morals of our law and populations could have very bad consequences for them
@@honeybadger9425 Well, you could argue that most of the victims in these videos are tourists from other countries. Best way of getting rid of this is organising in groups and patrolling the streets. See any sort of scam, basically threaten them to stop doing it or else, then proceed in following them around the city. They will quickly stop doing it. Or better yet, hire more police and ask them to actually do their bloody jobs.
Seriously, why there still have ppl fall for that at least 50-yr old dirty trick? 🤦🏻♂️
You're doing great job exposing these scummers .
All world the same story
Also in Berlin this weekend they were playing. Right on Checkpoint Charley. I was trying to warn people but they still played. For like 30 minutes at least and no cops around at all.
it feels awful to watch this video already after being scammed...
I tell scammers "I am not in the mood to lose money, I worked hard for it, unlike you"
Someone should slight of hand place a ball and "win" and record the reaction from the scammer.
Love the idea but as you see on clips many times they use feet to show the cups.. so only works if you have same objects as they do AND if you can use hands
Never seen this in Amsterdam. The dutch deal with these kind of things swiftly. So thats proof that it can be done in other cities as well
I honestly just stood there and watched them scam. There is way to many of them and they are aggressive and all working together. Sometimes you just got to let nature take its course.
The cups and balls/ shell game is one of the oldest scams on earth, going back literally thousands of years. There are references to it in Ancient Greek and Roman literature, and possible depictions from Ancient Egypt. Versions are found in cultures around the world. It's genuinely kinda impressive that it's still got the power to fleece people.
People should train to discreetly swap in items as theyre picking up the cup to scam the scammers. Carry a soft ball of each color with you and when you see which ball the scammer is using, discreetly palm your replacement ball and swap it in when you lift the cup
Then what? they'd shout at you that you cheated and that would be it. They're never going to give you any money.
@@hippopotamus86 you come up in a group that's also in it with you and have a brawl if they refuse to pay. Either way everyone gets arrested so win win!
Why not just point to his hand when he asks where the ball is? Then surely you would win.
@@Josh-wu7kz he can just as sneakily get rid of it while you ask him that. But this way, he won't know what hit him! An archer never expects the target to shoot back
When he asks which cup has the ball, or where the ball is you say its in his hand. And as long as he has his hands free at the time and not in his pockets or anywhere, its going to be obvious if he doesn't immediately open his hands up. If he bends down to lift the cups up you can call him out for trying to put the ball back. So if you timed it for when his hands were free from his body by pretending to look at the cups and look like your thinking about, you could catch him out.
2010, one my friends got scammed on a corner in Spain (Benidorm). We laughed at him and told him they were scammers 😅 He ran down the street and kicked theire table 50ft in the air 😂Scammers ran away in all directions in panic 😂
Hey there, I just wanted to thank you for uncovering the popular scams in Prague. Now it also happened to me. A shady person on my train boarded my train to Hamburg and pretended to live also go there. He said he doesn't have money and his wife will give it back in Germany also showing me a German number. I gave him 12€ stupid as I was but I would love you to catch someone and make fun of them.
I mean, if you engage with some shady looking gypsy guy on the street for a gamble of money, you're pretty much asking for it at this point. How can you trust these people?
I actually guessed where it was when you asked if I would bet my money. I wonder what happens if you actually pick the right one for the scammers
the ball is palmed and not under and cup he an produce it at the same time as lifting the cup
@@hammalamiri12 yeah I watched the full vid after commenting. If I came across one of those I'd be tempted to knock all the cups down
This exact thinking is why the scam works.
When you are looking from the outside and there is no real victim in front of the scammer, but one of his co-workers, you will always see where the ball is. When you are in front of the scammer with the three cups and the ball, only then, the ball is hidden.
I’m not a good sport about loosing money, when it happened to me in Paris I threatened to call the police if they didn’t give me the money back and they immediately gave me the money back and started cursing in their own language and run off
Don't spoil your holiday getting involved trying to stop them. You don't know how many or how aggressive they may be with you. Don't forget many of these people are in crime gangs/mafias
This whole channel is about confronting scammers on the street
@@rsmith02 Doesn't mean you have to become a vigilante yourself. You are making yourself and people you know aware of the scams, but not a call to arms to tackling organized crime gangs
Scratching up your macbook like that is a scam in itself
Be careful filming in Germany: It is illegal to film or photograph people without their consent in Germany, so potentially you could be in trouble if the cops come.
It's slightly different than that.
It is illegal to, create or transmit a photograph or video of another person without consent when that person is in a private premises or room that is protected from public view, because that translates to a violation of that person’s intimate privacy. Nor is it allowed to film or photograph people if it shows their helplessness (accident victims, drunk people, nude people, homeless people).
Photographing or filming scammers on the street in itself therefore is not illegal in Germany, as the scammers are not in a place where one can reasonably expect privacy, nor are these scammers generally helpless people. Publishing these photos or videos on the other hand is a different ballgame, as also scammers still have portrait rights in the end. But then again, I don't think the police would mind it too much if you would expose scammers with these photos and videos, as that makes the lives of the police a bit easier again. :)
Hören sie auf mich ins Gesicht zu filmen
@@jdjphotographynlGreat answer, look what happened to the UA-camr "Planes, Trains Everything" in Germany. Madness
@@fidgetspinner343 Checked the video. Seemed like just a very unfortunate experience due to some crazy paranoid cow making false accusations rather than to mind her own business. Maybe she falls into the helplessness category. 😜
That still doesn't change the fact it's not necessarily in all cases illegal to film or photograph people in Germany without their consent, but rather the publishing of these photos and/or videos where things become more legally challenging.
At 7:23 he said Alo Alo Ochelari (means glasses) harry potter, not reporter.Sauce ? I'm romanian.
this just shows how inteligent tiktokers are
As someone who lives in England, when she bet 100 quid that hurt SOOO badly
Yh she lost £180 that's crazy
I was SCAMMED in Paris in 1995.
And on that day, Hanka started to train and became a fighter (clash of the stars). She's preparing her revenge😅.
Westminster bridge every single day.
Cheap cigarettes, trash brands, bad shaves and shifty looks - always at least three others in on it.
Soon as the cops come the board is folded and they scatter.
When I was in London I ALMOST felt on this trick. And I like to think that I am pretty intelligent person. They move cups only several times and you obviously "know" where the ball is. I almost bet 20 pounds, but then I realized it cannot be so easy.
My thoughts were that they take your money BEFORE the game (they do so in London) and if you win, they give you back false bills.
I think you overestimate your intelligence...
6:46 Getting the money from another scammer, would also be a good way for the scammer to dump the ball in his pockets if he decides to pocket the money too
6:33 "She's pretending to be that stupid person playing so when you're watching this you're like 'Oh, she's so stupid, it's obvious on the side' " So the "fake customer" tactic uses a phenomenon called social proof, which states that people are more likely to do something if they see others doing it. It's kinda weird the woman "lost", though. I'd expect them to do a bait-and-switch, which is letting the fake customer win to make you more confident, but then cheat against you to make sure you can't win.
you see the fake customer win some, then you se another fake customer lose and think to yourself "NOOO, he took the wrong cup! obviously it's under the other cup" - it makes you feel like you could have done better. And some ppl fall for that and actually try it themselves.
Next time I cross Westminster Bridge here in London I'll make sure to make life difficult for some scammers.
I remember watching exactly the same scam in Broadway, New York an 3rd July 1989. It was brilliant to watch. And the day after was a carnival.
Biggest scam in Poland well known is prices. Lot of people (even Poles) have no clue about the prices. Lot of places, where tourists are welcomed are scams themselves. Average pricing on food got increased by 100% (comparing to last year) and lot of restaurants increased it by 150%. Most of people don't realize, there is a trick called "SCAM", when you pay 50% more than you should. Many people will no agree with me, but that's a fact. Tourists don't know the economics and that's normal for them to compare currencies. For example this 200zł is not 50 EUR, is less, it's around 40-45 EUR (depends on month). If you wanna get scammed almost everywhere thinking, you buy cheap meal, then welcome to Poland. Beautiful country, where tourists are scammed with hug overpriced meals.
I've come across scammers playing this con in Paris usual plot with lookouts etc. I'm surprised they get away with it in London with the amount of Police in the area.
I saw a woman get scammed in central Barcelona. The scammer said "How much money have you got. Show me" and she opened her purse. He put his hand in and took all her money, and she let him. The police were maybe 20 metres away.
I have visited Český Krumlov recently. First thing before trip I have checked your channel for some advices and stuff, but I didn't find anything.
If I was the governer or the president I don't care how corrupt I'd have to be but I would get rid of every single scammer by force. I was taught hospitality and respect as extremely important. Seeing tourists spending thousands to see my country and then get scammed would make me explode.
If, like Janek @10:03. you don't understand why people don't step in and warn other tourists, look no further than a powerful three-card monte story that Dave Chappelle tells in his stand up routine, "Unforgiven". Long story short, Dave was lucky that he walked away with a life-changing lesson instead of a trip to the hospital or worse. Don't get me wrong--taking an ethical stand is admirable and often needed--but it's understandably balanced with a dose of reality and self-preservation...not many people are willing to jeopardize their safety (and, if married and/or with young children, the lives of those who depend on them) just to prevent a fool from being parted from their money.
This game literally used o be a major part of the scamming street kid who trope but as the trope has died, awareness of the scam has died
I wish I had this knowledge when I got scammed in Spain 2011 🤦🏽. Keep up the good work exposing these scammers 👍🏼
Take your own ball along and win every time.
I tried to stand up against those scammers during my last visit to Paris in 2019. They attacked me, the police were patrolling nearby, when I reached them to report. Police said those are scammers, stay away from them. 😅😅😅
i'm surprised by how many people don't know about the scam.
I’m so glad my upbringing form my dad was the way it was. I’m always so sceptical of people like this and rightly so. Complete scumbags, I’d hate to get into trouble for losing my temper if they tried scamming me. I find it insulting.
if u get scammed by such people.. you clearly lack the intelligence to be eligible for raising children
sadly... anyone can have kids nowadays... thats why she exists.
Just go with three friends and bet one on each three cups lol
Thanks for warning and exposing scammers, which aren't given much of the limelight before. Police must arrest them along their accomplices.
Kees van der Spek (Dutch documentary maker) made a long series about this in different countries. In some episodes he exposes them all and gets into physical fights with the scammers. Also he shows HOW they cheat tourists. And he filmed it all via hidden camera's.
Ik herrinder me nog toen ik de eerste episode aan het kijken was, wat een legend.
How ANYone in this world doesn't know about this scam is beyond me. It's ancient.