Watch this glamorous group of pickpockets caught on camera

[kingannoy]

@Skeptic

I saw crews of teenagers working in Berlin, doing the fake survey gambit, where they push a fake survey form up against you to obscure what they are doing.

Saw them a few years ago, they did not pickpocket then (or not me at least) but scammed in another way, I wrote this up earlier:

40 common tourist scams to look out for

I encountered the charity petition, with the kids pretending to be deaf and everything, in Berlin. The scam was slightly different, after you signed the petition (under duress, they were very pushy) they’d move their hand to show the right-most column on the petition: “donation”. All the people above you (with a remarkably similar handwriting) donated between 5 and 20€. I refused to sign the first time I saw them, the story on the paper seemed fake, they knew no sign language (I do) and were ju…