Most common scam types
City guides
Naples
🔴 3 highScippatori · Tre campanelle · Capodichino taxi
Palermo
🔴 2 highScippo scooter · Specchietto · Mondello lido
Rome
🔴 2 highTre campanelle · Pickpocketing · FCO taxi scam
Venice
🔴 1 highWater taxi · Gondola overcharge · San Marco pickpockets
Sardinia
🔴 4 highRental phantom damage · Sand souvenir fine · La Pelosa resale
Florence
🔴 1 highFake leather · Duomo pickpockets · SMN taxi
Milan
🔴 3 highDuomo bracelet · Metro pickpockets · Malpensa taxi
Sorrento
🔴 4 highCapodichino taxi · Circumvesuviana · Private transfer gouge
Pisa
🔴 4 highTower bracelet · LAM Rossa fare shakedown · Station pickpockets
Amalfi Coast
🔴 5 highSS163 transfer gouge · Boat charter · Sea-view coperto
Lake Como
🔴 5 highWater taxi · Villa ticket bundles · Bellagio parking
Positano
🔴 4 highSpiaggia Grande lidos · Parking gouge · Fake hotel clone
Verona
🔴 5 highCasa di Giulietta · Finte sordomute · Arena ticket fraud
Taormina
🔴 4 highCatania taxi · Teatro Antico markup · Etna unlicensed guides
Bologna
🔴 5 highPickpocketing · Bag-snatch · Taxi overcharge
Cinque Terre
🔴 4 highCinque Terre card · Trenitalia check-in fine · Ferry
Pompeii
🔴 5 highUnlicensed guides · Fake Info Point · Skip-line scalpers
Capri
🔴 4 highBlue Grotto fee stack · Boat charter · Fontelina minimum
Lake Garda
🔴 4 highSirmione salassi · Finti sordomuti · Holiday rental deposit
Siena
🔴 5 highSpecchietto mirror scam · ZTL fines · Palio ticket fraud
Matera
🔴 2 highBari airport taxi · ZTL camera fines · Sassi unauthorized guides
Lecce
🔴 2 highBrindisi taxi · Parcheggiatori abusivi · Salento lido prices
The full Italy guide — 149 scams across 20 destinations.
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