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Travel Journal: I lost €200 in Paris and fought with scammers to claw some of it back
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Paris regularly makes top 10 lists of the most-visited destination in the world, but tourist hot spots such as the streets around Sacre-Coeur Basilica church also draw scammers.
ST PHOTOS: CLARA LOCK
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PARIS – Various people have warned me about the dangers in the City of Love.
“The streets around (main transport hub) Gare du Nord are full of people trying to steal your phone,” said E, a Lebanon-born Londoner I met on the Eurostar train who commutes regularly to the French capital to meet his partner.
