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Tourist Trap: never lose your visacard out of sight!
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  • Back home from South Africa I was surprised to find hundreds of euros on the outprint of my visa expenses, that I had actually not spent. I was suprised because I never lost my card out of sight, I always had it on me, even at night...
    The only moment I did not see what happened to it was in a busstation where they took it behind the counter for some minutes... It is hard to believe but it must have happened then... The socalled "proof" of y expenses (that you can demand from visa in case of doubt) showed an imprint of my card (which was not signed or anything!!) and lose (!) from that a receipt with an amount of money spent in a garage, and a signature that was not mine. Visa told me that I was responsible for this because "I should never let the card get out of my sight (!!) but finally agreed to refund after I kept on arguing that the socalled "proof" was no proof at all of ME having spent something and... that I would write about it...

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