Tourist Scams in Milan, Italy

Yes, in Lille, France I set my purse on ground to take a picture with my friends and two local boys on the street offered to take a picture, and we used my friends camera for the picture and mine was in my purse. Well, after the boys walked away i realizes my camera was gone, and they were long gone. This is for ANY big city. Seems like common sense I know! 😂

That’s why, as a Milanese, I stay well clear of tourists’ attraction places.

General advice in Italy (I would say: in Europe) keep away from "small talk"...

I encountered scams during my visit to Milan, but thankfully I was able to spot them and did not become a victim.
1. Bracelet scam
2. Metro ticket scam
3. Bird guy
4. Someone trying to help with my luggage

I didn’t have a good impression of Milan. I won’t be back. Once I arrived in Switzerland I didn’t encounter and beggars, scams, or street hawkers.

Those scams happened ALL OVER EUROPE even in Warsaw, Prague, Budapest.

Thanks we are going to Milan on tuesday

Ok. This guy is telling you common sense tips. Not very helpful.

Milano Card. Don’t buy it. It’s way to difficult to obtain and more expensive than the tickets you buy at kiosks.

it's not a scam but PLEASE, for the love of your own decency, DON'T do a spin on the balls of the bull in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele... you are supposed to do that on New Year's Eve, not all year round...

don't leave your cellphone on the table if you are eating or drinking something, especially at outside tables. some thieves could come and ask you for directions, place a map on your phone and steal it

I visit Milan july 2 2023 I get robbed cast €700 like I can’t believe how does it happen because I really look after my bag 😢 and I remember a man selling a ticket from the metro 💔🥲

Also want to share an unfortunate experience we had while waiting for our room at a small hotel lobby. We were a group of about 18 persons, and when we came inside the hotel, there was a bearded man sitting on the sofa when we entered, so I guess he felt crowded, and gradually he inched himself slowly towards the hotel door and was able to get one of our carry-on luggage with back-pack on top. The back-pack did have his Euro wallet but fortunately not his dollars, passport or his license. Unfortunately, the manager of the hotel was not available to review the lobby camera footage until the following morning. Otherwise, our Milan trip was a success other than this unfortunate experience. - Mike

I live and work in Milan. It's everything he said is true and tourists should be aware and keep attention to thier belongings!

That's ALL true. Be careful to foreigners because these skams doesn't comes from italians

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During my last visit to Duomo, I saw three major issues -
1. People constantly bugging you for selfie at Duomo with selfie sticks. I must have declined 100 times and had to simply runaway from place.
2. Too many illegal migrants, beggars, destitutes, hippies, addicts and likes occupying almost every street, footpaths and tourist places
3. Astronomical prices for everything from hotel to food to travel.

I really felt nervous in the evenings and late night venturing out.

Finally, Malpensa might be one of the most confusing airports I have been to and it takes an hour to find directions and reach gates

Thank you so much! Are luggage storage sites ok to use? We have booked Bounce luggage storage so we can go to Duomo and it has high reviews but wanted to see your thoughts. Thank you!

Going to Milian is it frowned upon to show aggression back towards the lowlife scammers if they harass you

I might as well be the scary angry guy nobody messes with.

We were followed by a gang of some sort for an afternoon. It was very scary

Milan is a great city. The people are down to earth and the city is really gorgeous.

Target my kid and I’ll be there for a little bit longer than planned

I went there a couple of years ago. I would never think of going there again. I don´t enjoy my self on holiday if I have to be fighting people off me on every street corner. Its not what I would call relaxing. Its a sad state of affairs, and I can´t see why nothing can be done about it.

I’m a solo but very experienced traveller. When I was in Milan I saw all the scams. They are so aggressive! At the duomo I had to be very rude as those guys with the bracelets would not leave me alone. I was surrounded. Also at the central station these guys would not leave me alone trying to carry my luggage. I had a very heavy bag but I always manage it myself. They kept trying to grab it off me. Had to use the universal words “f off”. Thankfully I have never been scammed but so many attempts have been made on me.

stayed in bergamo and caught the train to milan,just out of the station and they tried to give me a plastic turtle thankfully a sercurity guard moved them ,plus at the station i lost my change while getting a ticket from the machine

I had got by the bracelet one. Was not the worse in the world, but made me alert for the rest of my Europa trip.

How is it possible for someone you don't know to INSIST on giving you something "for free" without setting off your alarm system? Not even at Disneyland...

Scams in Milan=scams that may happen literally EVERYWHERE else in the world.

I got into a train from Milano Centrale, my wife and myself were pushed by a group with one of them supposedly pregnant and carrying a baby. She groped our bags from under her baggy clothes. We shouted for help but we were surrounded by this group of abt 6. Fortunately, nothing was lost on our end and we pushed ourselves away from this group eventually. This was in Dec 2019. We visited again in Dec 2022 without any incident.

When we were in Milan a couple years ago there were young men that looked like they were from somewhere in Africa working the crowds around the Duomo. They would hand people bird seed to feed the pigeons and after they fed them they would demand high amounts of money ...actually following the people around and aggressively yelling at them to pay up!

Hmmm I didn't know Alex Jones was soo traveled & cultured...

Got to say that Milan is one of the worst Cities I have ever visited. Public transport is terrible and that's why the taxis can take advantage. There are much better places to visit in Italy, like Venice and Florence. Don't waste your time or money in Milan...

I almost got hit up with the bracelet scam in Las Vegas, I was taking a drink from my bottled water when out of the corner of my eye I saw her approach me, within a split second I turned toward my husband and said no thank you and put my hands back in my vest. These people are slick. I'm just a country girl and if it weren't for videos like this I'd be clueless! Thanks for all you do keeping us aware.

When Wolter said "100 euros by taxi to the center," I then realized I would likely not be going to Milan. Other things are going to be expensive too. $$$$.

I think the bracelet scam would stop if all of them got a big punch in the face as a standard response for a week or month. But then some of them would pull out knives, and there are of course a group of them vs one or two of you. Don't risk a knife cut.

I was visiting a friend in Milan when I was 15 and we were in a park. They (black lul) just approached me with one of those rainbow bracelets and insisted to put it on my wrist. I was like “thanks dude” and they they wanted cash. I was like “card only, you said it was free anyway” and I just ran off to my friend. And he told me that happens all the time xD

As a solo female traveler I’m always vigilant. Thankfully I’ve never encountered any of this. ♥️

We were in Milan for Christmas and found Uber Black really easy to use and you know what the cost of the trip is prior to the trip.

Youd think local police would clear this stuff up so it doesnt hurt the tourist industry.

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The whole country is the scam.

If anybody gives you grief in Italy, just shout "Vaffanculo!" at them. They'll get the message!

So, in other words, DON'T GO TO MILAN!

Actually i was in france 2 weeks ago and then one day when I was walking around the tower in paris I saw some scamers around so people be very careful with that thank u so much for everything u doing here greetings and have a wonderful time with ur family and friends take care

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