Beware of the Lost Money Scam
Beware of scams near the Radisson SAS hotel and other tourist spots in Kiev. While on assignment in Kiev, I was taking a picture of an interesting building (see photo) when a man brushed past me, pointed down at the ground at a large wad of $100 bills in a plastic bag, and began asking me if the money was mine. I immediately left - neither talking to the stranger, nor coming anywhere close to the money.I later found out this was part of a rip-off scam, where a stranger "finds" a wad of cash on the sidewalk, offers to split it with an innocent tourist, when realizing that there is an odd number of $100 bills (thus not being able to split the cash evenly), the stranger asks the tourist to give him the local currency equivalent of $50 (so they can evenly split the found cash). Once this is done, the tourist will be quite upset to find that the $100 bills are all fake and he/she has been...
