You know it happens - someone standing in a crowd, a line, waiting.....and when they reach for their wallet, it is gone. Or coming around a corner in a market, headed back to the hotel, or just off the main square in the town you are visiting....and someone demands your wallet and runs. What do you do to protect yourself?
There are two main courses of action to protect your wallet:
1. Keep your valuables - cash, credit cards, air fare tickets, passports - in a secret location, such as a security wallet inside your shirt, tucked inside your pants - there are even socks and belts with secret compartments. Just be sure that when you go into these secret places to get money to pay for something, don't do it out in the open in front of everyone - or the secret does no good.
2. Use a "fake" wallet to give to the thief who demands it. This can be an old wallet, or a cheap wallet, fill it with the credit card blanks from credit card mail solicitations, old gift cards with no balances, a dollar or two in the back - nothing that can identify you, but just enough to feel and look like a real wallet. Either drop it or throw it down to distract the thief while you run away.
Keep your valuables safe, and enjoy your travel!
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