All about pickpockets, con artists, gangsters, thieves, and travel

Learn how pickpockets steal. See what they look like. Never become a victim. Start by reading PICKPOCKETS!. Read up before you travel, not after you become a pickpocket’s victim or a con artist’s fool. Turn your travel concerns into travel confidence, then hit the road and have the last laugh on the thieves!

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A really old trullo in the Puglia countryside

Through the South of Italy

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Puglia, Calabria, and a little of Basilicata regions in the very south of Italy, explored on a leisurely car trip. Wonderful, unique, and mostly crowd-free, I say visit NOW before big-travel discovers (and ruins) the region.

About Thiefhunters in Paradise

Thiefhunters in Paradise, the research and education repository of Bob Arno and Bambi Vincent, is about pickpockets, thieves, scammers, gangsters, con artists, and travel. Learn how to avoid becoming a victim of thieves. Pickpockets and property theft are the travel industry’s dirty little secret. Understandably, no one wants to talk about them. Not the travel magazines with advertisers to placate, not the boards of tourism with countries to promote, not travel agencies or packagers with clients to enthuse, or cruise lines with a carefree ambiance to emphasize. And why should they? It’s just a petty crime. Who is to reveal the status quo but a stage-stealing Swede and his fancy accessory? Because it represents our passion, as well as an integral part of our career, we’ll continue to skulk underground and pound the pavement. Sometimes though, on sweltering trains so crowded I’m pressed like a daisy in a dictionary, I’ll question our endeavors and the gritty reality of mingling with outlaws. Then we’ll catch a thief. We’ll capture a slick steal on video, which will later be used to illustrate our presentations to the public and help train police departments. We’ll discover some new artifice, an old trick twisted to exploit the moment. And that is our reward.