Most Common Cambodia Scams - Watch This Before You Visit!

[Music] right so we thought today we would talk about something that we said we were going to talk about in a video at some point and we saw some comments saying yeah please let us know about these in case you guys are thinking of visiting Cambodia yourself so we are going to go through now some of the most common scams that are in this country now yeah does everybody know that I can't and yes - children say it's known here that some children are sent out by their parents to sell like tourist things they're like bags and like maps books of the area bracelets all little mushy mushy things and as the kids are so cute you're more tempted and wanting to buy from them thinking that you're like doing a favor but really you need to not be playful in this case I need to say no thank you and just walking away because although that may sound horrible thing to say if you do buy from them you're then like making this circle continual feeding the system yeah because these kids should be in school and a lot of the time if a kid comes home having sold a lot of things in one day the parent goes oh that's actually bad and sending them to school sentimental mention I and the Cambodian government actually advised this as well they advise you not to buy things off kids on the streets another very common one we've heard about is pickpockets and especially snatches from mopeds so you'll be walking on the street your phone out or something side of the road someone comes along on a moped someone on the back of the moped snatches your phone a camera straight out your hand or whatever we always carry our camera around our necks and we try not to get our phones out in the busy streets if you're holding your phone you're not like squeezing it hard like so that no one can grab it like you just have had you just hold it so it doesn't fall to the floor but if someone went to grab it would easily be taken in your hand so to think about that don't lie beyond chorus or waving your phone around on your GPS just kind of keep it close to yourself and try not to go on it too much of the street having said everyone we've come across been so friendly Iran says hello and we haven't seen it about ourselves but we know that does go on the next one is all about baby milk what can happen is a young woman will come up with a little baby and say I need I don't want money I just want you to come to this shop and buy some formula my baby she'll take you into this shop the shop owner will charge you like twenty thirty dollars for like some baby formula and because you're in that situation they make it very hard for you to say no you end up forking out that much money and then the woman then gives the milk back to the shop and they split the cost so it's a scam there's no baby well it might be baby there's no baby maybe that goes back into the shop don't fall for it so the next one is one we actually saw ourselves yesterday if you saw our Thailand vlogs we were hiring mopeds all the time they're so easy you've booked them at your hotel and every tourist hires my peasant Thailand like it's a thing they're not here though very very few tourists on mopeds all the locals ride mopeds yeah it was illegal a few years ago to actually hi mo better choice it's not illegal now but the police still don't like it we saw a couple just like us getting pulled over yesterday the police literally whistled waved them in took the bike from them and they follow us we don't know what happened after that somewhere with their bike and they look terrified in there yeah they basically would have been fined it's the police so you can't exactly argue it who you're gonna argue it with they pull you over they find you for pretty much nothing and that's that another one is about people begging for food this is fairly similar to the baby scam because what happens is a woman will come up to you and say I don't want money I'm not asking for money but all I want you to do is buy me a meal which sounds kind like you'd kind of want to do that as a nice gesture and I would if I didn't know about it before you get taken to this restaurant and that they charge you again a ridiculous amount of money for this meal that should have cost a couple of dollars and again you'll put into a situation if well you've chosen to buy her this food you have to pay for it and it's and you're then stuck with this big bill at the end of the meal this next one isn't particularly scammer such but it's just something to look out for something to bear in mind when you're in Cambodia the taxis and took Turks aren't metered and most of the taxis here are took attacks we haven't seen many actual cars so make sure before you get a tuk-tuk can you tell him exactly where you want to go and you should barter for the price a five minute journey roughly should be about one dollar and agree on the price of where you get in as well because if you get somewhere and then they could just say oh you're $10 and we've already done the journey it's really high for our do it if you say I want to go to this restaurant please and they say six dollars but it should be one dollar and you just say yeah okay and just get in you've paid another five dollars more than you should have done so make sure you can a barter but for us when it's like arcing over like one or two dollars and knowing that it's helping them by spending more money there's kind of that aspect as well because like sometimes should be a dollar but they're like are dollar per person and we like to us are still two dollars or so like one pound seventy or something so you can you can use your own judgment another one is to do with monks all not actual months people dressed scam artists dressed as monks they'll be setting you like bracelets and things and charging quite a lot of money do you think you're doing a good thing by buying this bracelet from a monk is like a donation but there's actually no charity here the monk is just a normal person they're not a monk they've just bought amongst like uniformed look at the orange robes and put it on and the best way to tell if it's a if it's actually a monk or not is that they wouldn't actually be telling like a tourist products they wouldn't be selling that they don't go out looking for donations they they would just accept them if you why not yeah so we don't want to put you off visiting Cambodia act and we have absolutely loved our time here so far the people are so so friendly the food's great the country's amazing it's really really great place to visit but if you are visiting just look out for these scams yeah and I'm glad like having thinner fuse or all happening around us I'm glad Ernie before because I might I just be like oh that's fine if I hadn't read about it we probably would hide a moped and then we could have got to find your pooled everybody's please exactly yes Bob yeah we need some food let's go [Music] [Applause] [Music]