Ex-Pat Scams
EX-PAT SCAMMERS
Look out for more details of how ex-pats scam their colleagues. We have already written about counterfeit money, land scams and computer scams soon we will tell you all about fake psychics and charlatans who have no gift other than deception.
There are also ex-pat moles who appear to be working for one company but are actually passing all business information on to another company who is paying them a commission larger than the share they would have got legally.
There are even nastier scams where ex-pats try to make life in Luxor unbearable for their business parters in the hope that they will be so miserable living in Egypt that they will leave. They can then take over the company with very little outlay. Often these people are the moles described above and may well act as a close friend but are really your worst enemy.
Much is written about Egyptians ripping off Europeans but the worst scams are perpetrated by ex-pats on other ex-pats and their dishonesty is made easy because people have a tendency to trust their own people. Both men and women are involved in these scams so it is hard to know who to trust.
