Most common scam types
Taxi rigging 5Pickpocketing 1Currency swap 1
City guides
7 scams documented
Taxi rigging
Hurghada
🔴 2 high7 scams documented
Currency swap
Cairo
🔴 3 high6 scams documented
Taxi rigging
Sharm El Sheikh
🔴 2 high6 scams documented
6 scams documented
Taxi rigging
Alexandria
🔴 2 high5 scams documented
Taxi rigging · Overcharging
Dahab
🔴 2 high6 scams documented
Diving safety · Taxi rigging
📖 Egypt: Tourist Scams
The full Egypt guide — 43 scams across 7 destinations.
Giza pyramid camel-tout “free photo, just one minute” hostage shakedowns. Khan el-Khalili papyrus “school” markups (plant fiber sold as art). Luxor Valley of the Kings fake-guide tomb lock-ins. CAI airport “official taxi” USD overcharges. Aswan felucca captain price-doubling. Every documented Egypt scam — with the exact scripts, red flags, and Arabic phrases that shut each one down. Drawn from Reddit (r/Egypt, r/EgyptTravel), U.S./UK/Canadian Embassy advisories, and Egyptian Tourism & Antiquities Police reports.
- 43 documented scams across Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, Hurghada & 3 more destinations
- An Arabic exit-phrase card you can screenshot to your phone
- Updated annually — buy once, re-download future editions free
- Readable in one flight — $4.99 on Amazon Kindle