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  1. David Tallan

    PSA: Please pay attention to your online safety as well!

    ...victims of such fraud. Rather that the personal information we post may be used to target relatives we leave at home with fraud, based on the theft of our identity. I know my parents have been sensitized to the potential theft of my identity since 1988, when it was attempted. (Someone stole a...
  2. trecile

    Fake Pilgrim fraudster in Gironde, France

    ...who presents himself as a pilgrim, has been actively sought by the Saint-Savin gendarmerie. He is suspected of being the perpetrator of several thefts of credit cards and cars from hosts on the way. To carry out his misdeeds, the individual pretends to need to rest on the long road that...
  3. AlanSykes

    LIVE from the Camino On the caminos of Caravaca and San Juan de la Cruz

    ...it was stolen in 1934, which so enraged the townspeople that they shot the parish priest in the street, suspecting him of complicity in the theft. Fortunately, the Vatican kindly replaced the stolen piece with another one from their own collection. Most impressive, for me, was a series of...
  4. Mikey - camino

    Scammed in Lisbon

    Sorry to hear you got scammed. I've gotten scammed a few times, theft is a better word. I have never understood why folks do not obtain a receipt for a credit or debit charge. how do you verify the charge when the bill comes due??
  5. HBS60

    LIVE from the Camino Héctor Walks His Way- Week 5

    ...and moreover, I couldn’t find my luggage transport envelope which I had filled the evening before with the money. I’ve heard of albergue thefts but I was trying not to reach unwarranted conclusions, so I filled a new envelope with the money in it, and I started to walk, in a bad mood, and...
  6. peregrina2000

    An article with lots of camino expertise

    ...Camino books, agrees. “It’s the Camino’s turn to be given the ‘silly season’ treatment by the press,” he says. “There’s always been the risk of theft, vandalism and drunkenness on the Camino. This has been blown out of all proportion. Some pilgrims do stupid things just as some holidaymakers...
  7. E

    Lost & Found Lost Shoes

    How I wish your comment consisted solely of the part beginning "The whole thing...". If this happened to your 25 year old son or best friend on his first Camino (and on a limited budget), I don't think your reaction would be to go away for a few days and think up a puerile rhyme for the...
  8. Jeff Crawley

    Stolen poles

    Now that's rather lovely.
  9. Bradypus

    Stolen poles

    I agree. Plus the disappointment of the theft and the practical inconvenience if you really are dependent on the poles. On the Shikoku pilgrimage pilgrims traditionally carry a wooden staff which represents Kukai walking alongside the pilgrim. So it is treated with respect. I couldn't bring...
  10. K

    Lost & Found Lost Shoes

    ...never crossed my mind that someone might steal shoes during a Camino. I could easily see mistakes being made because so many look the same, but theft-- presumably by someone else staying at the same albergue-- wow. Disappointing and sad. (As a former mischievous, unthinking boy, I understand...
  11. RJM

    Lost & Found Lost Shoes

    ...in an outer pocket of my backpack and there are times when I've had a bottom bunk I simply put the shoes under it in order to reduce chance of theft. I wash my shoes when I can on the Camino. Warm sunny days when I know they'll dry out. It reduces the shoe odors and more sanitary for my feet...
  12. longlost18

    Lost & Found Lost Shoes

    I took my insoles (custom orthotics) out every afternoon to let them air/dry out. That this might deter theft is an added bonus. I once grabbed a pair like mine, and as soon as I put them on, realized "oops."
  13. Antonius Vaessen

    Lost & Found Lost Shoes

    I tried to delete my message but apparently it did not disappear from the thread. So my last sentence was incomplete. I wanten to say that to me the chance that big shoes like this were taken by mistake is small. The shoes of the pilgrim who took them should be left behind than
  14. E

    Lost & Found Lost Shoes

    I don't understand what you mean in your last sentence. Are you implying it's theft? Could be...
  15. Frankybaby66

    What would you tell a new pilgrim NOT to do ?

    Sorry, but your wrong about Compeed. It is absolutely meant to be used on blisters, just make sure they are 'open'. (At least, that's what Copeed's website says . . ) I've used and seen them used successfully in this way on many Caminos) It is not designed to be used as a preventative (we've...
  16. WGroleau

    What would you tell a new pilgrim NOT to do ?

    ...Best way to get cash is an ATM, especially if your card provider is one that refunds ATM fees. - Don’t carry so much cash that a loss or theft would ruin a whole day, but don’t carry so little that an ATM malfunction would ruin a whole day. - Enjoy the conversations and scenery but don’t...
  17. JabbaPapa

    LIVE from the Camino Camino home to home, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

    ...are still sparse. The Pyrenean mountain sides are starting to look a little more Eastern though, and there's a deep warmth to the air that's starting to feel a little like home. I will seek no indoors solution ; last time here, I guess in 2021, involved some dodgy characters and some theft.
  18. T

    Most common way to pay the albergue

    First time in Spain for a few months. Card acceptance even greater then I remember and minimum card thresholds seem to be declining though I went to a place this morning that had a €20 minimum. Certainly nearly all the private albergues accept card. Of course you need cash as many of the...
  19. Getwood

    Most common way to pay the albergue

    ...turned into a pouch. I've used this cheap method with much success. That being said, remote RFID attacks are few and far between — most theft via wireless chip hijacking happens at skimmers. But the most common form of theft is simple human engineering; the perp takes your card, disappears...
  20. Karinhi

    Amount of euros

    Hi Peter-Just so you know, Canadians do spell "cheque" like most of the world. We remain a member of the Commonwealth. It's the Americans who have many of their own spelling versions of English words.

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