This never ends well. I don’t watch much TV, but when I find a show I like, I have a hard time doing anything else. On my recent Singapore Airlines flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong I watched “Scam City: Buenos Aires.” I had never heard of the show before, though once I saw it I was hooked. It’s more or less a documentary about a guy who travels to cities around the world and falls for the most common scams. But the thing that’s awesome about the show is that he doesn’t just fall for the scams, but he tries to get to the bottom of them to figure out the strategy and business behind it. In other words if he’s given counterfeit money he wants to find out how much of a spread the person distributing it gets, and who they get it from. And then he tries to find the distributor. It’s a really, really fascinating show for anyone that likes travel.

For example, here’s the one about Bangkok, which covers two scams I’ve (intentionally) fallen for (written about here and here):

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

And then here’s the one I saw on my flight about Buenos Aires:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

There are lots more on YouTube, so if you have some free time this is entertainment that’s tough to beat…

Anyone else hooked on these as much as I am?

Posted on January 26th, 2013 by lucky
Filed under: Travel, Videos | 30 Comments »

It’s pretty common for my trip reports to just be plagiarized on other websites, though it’s not something I give much thought to. After all, this is the interwebs, and I have better stuff to do, like watch funny cat videos on YouTube.

A reader, however, passes along a link to a Singapore Airlines trip report I wrote last year, which has been posted to this site. Only that version is much, much awesomer. And they credit it to “One Mile during a Time.”

Definitely worth a read, in my opinion. Not sure if it went through a double translator or what, but I’ve certainly picked up some new phrases from it. From now I’ll be ordering potions of Krug instead of glasses.

Posted on January 26th, 2013 by lucky
Filed under: Media | 27 Comments »

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