Post: #1

In case the cash is gone and also the credit cards, what are the options? There are a lot of travelers on this forum, so you all probably know better than me how to deal with that.

Post: #2

Call your Bank/Credit Card and get them to fly you in a new card wherever you are in the world.


http://www.visa-platinum.com/gp/benefici...advance_48

Post: #3

Make copies of the front and back of the cards you are carrying along with a copy of your passport and your visa (if you needed one). Keep those separate.

Never pack those items (including the originals in anything but your jacket you are wearing (with zipper), your money belt or carry on that you place under the seat in front of you on the plane.

You can't do much if you lose the cash, you can split up where you hide it throughout the apt or hotel (if it has no safe).

I would search the forum, there was something about how to hide cash, etc. It definitely is the preferred way on RVF, to search and add to an existing thread.

Post: #4

I once lost my CC and had no form of currency on me..

I was able to uber myself to hotel (CC on file)
I then just western union myself some cash and received it it about five minutes later.

Post: #5

I lost my wallet recently in a cab while traveling. Had a debit card, a credit card and a bit of cash there. Also, picture ID which was about to expire anyway. I got an uber back to the place where I stayed.

I had backup credit and debit cards and some cash hidden in a safe in my airbnb apartment (about $200 + another $100 in local currency). Of course, my passport was in the safe as well. In addition, another backup credit card was hidden in the luggage in case somebody opens the safe.

I remembered which credit and debit cards I carried on me, found the phone numbers of the banks and called them immediately to cancel the cards. By the time I got back from my trip, replacement cards were mailed to me.

Not much I could have done differently to prevent the loss, other than perhaps drinking less.

Keep at least one backup card and a bit of cash at your place. If you travel to a dangerous country, then you need extra measures to hide you money. While traveling in Brazil, I used to carry cash in an empty plastic container for a chewing gum, for example.

Post: #6

(03-03-2016 01:44 PM)Mentavious Wrote:  I once lost my CC and had no form of currency on me..

I was able to uber myself to hotel (CC on file)
I then just western union myself some cash and received it it about five minutes later.

How did you transfer with the western union to yourself? or someone else did it?

Post: #7

(03-03-2016 01:57 PM)Brodiaga Wrote:  I lost my wallet recently in a cab while traveling. Had a debit card, a credit card and a bit of cash there. Also, picture ID which was about to expire anyway. I got an uber back to the place where I stayed.

I had backup credit and debit cards and some cash hidden in a safe in my airbnb apartment (about $200 + another $100 in local currency). Of course, my passport was in the safe as well. In addition, another backup credit card was hidden in the luggage in case somebody opens the safe.

I remembered which credit and debit cards I carried on me, found the phone numbers of the banks and called them immediately to cancel the cards. By the time I got back from my trip, replacement cards were mailed to me.

Not much I could have done differently to prevent the loss, other than perhaps drinking less.

Keep at least one backup card and a bit of cash at your place. If you travel to a dangerous country, then you need extra measures to hide you money. While traveling in Brazil, I used to carry cash in an empty plastic container for a chewing gum, for example.

Yeltsin, are those safes any good in Thailand?

Post: #8

^I had a pacsafe travel safe, bought on amazon. It's a bag reinforced with mesh, can be locked to a pipe, table, radiator, etc, by a padlock. You can open it with a bolt cutter or a metal saw, but it's good enough to protect against thieving maids, etc.

I trust my pacsafe more than a regular in room safe in a cheap hotel in Thailand or another SEA country.

Post: #9

(03-03-2016 02:31 PM)Brodiaga Wrote:  ^I had a pacsafe travel safe, bought on amazon. It's a bag reinforced with mesh, can be locked to a pipe, table, radiator, etc, by a padlock. You can open it with a bolt cutter or a metal saw, but it's good enough to protect against thieving maids, etc.

I trust my pacsafe more than a regular in room safe in a cheap hotel in Thailand or another SEA country.

Which one did you get thanks? Here is a link to amazon's pacsafe page. http://www.amazon.com/Pacsafe/b?ie=UTF8&node=2530085011

Post: #10

(03-03-2016 04:16 PM)samsamsam Wrote:  

(03-03-2016 02:31 PM)Brodiaga Wrote:  ^I had a pacsafe travel safe, bought on amazon. It's a bag reinforced with mesh, can be locked to a pipe, table, radiator, etc, by a padlock. You can open it with a bolt cutter or a metal saw, but it's good enough to protect against thieving maids, etc.

I trust my pacsafe more than a regular in room safe in a cheap hotel in Thailand or another SEA country.

Which one did you get thanks? Here is a link to amazon's pacsafe page. http://www.amazon.com/Pacsafe/b?ie=UTF8&node=2530085011

I got something similar to this
http://www.pacsafe.com/travelsafe-5l-portable-safe.html

I think it was smaller and cheaper (around $30), probably a previous model. I can't find it on Amazon now for some reason.

Post: #11

(03-03-2016 02:24 PM)nomadd Wrote:  

(03-03-2016 01:44 PM)Mentavious Wrote:  I once lost my CC and had no form of currency on me..

I was able to uber myself to hotel (CC on file)
I then just western union myself some cash and received it it about five minutes later.

How did you transfer with the western union to yourself? or someone else did it?

I know my CC numbers for a few cards so I just went online and did it.

Or you can go beforehand and send it to your location (couple hundred) as a backup plan just in case.

Post: #12

If it happens, hopefully you can have money wired via Western Union or something like that to hold you over until you get some funds. Losing your money or cards is a very rare situation, I only know one guy who did that and he was dumb enough to leave his wallet and passport on a public beach in a third world shit hole while he went swimming (you know who you are, haha). The key here is prevention, I've been using the same Samsonite money belt while traveling since 1999 and knock on wood, I haven't ever lost cards or cash, except that time in Medellin when those two whores drugged me and stole 300,000 pesos but that's a story for another time. This is advice for third world shit holes, here are some tips that I can share:

-Take a few different cards with you, I have two credit cards and two debit cards. Only take one of these cards out of your hotel/apartment at anytime, at night its better to leave them at home. Down here if you get robbed in a taxi, they'll take you to multiple ATMs to drain your account, oh you have a thousand dollar daily limit? They'll tie you up in a shitty room and drain your account over several days, its called a "paseo millionairio", here's a video of an attempted one in Bogota where a fucking DEA agent got killed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90vvdBKEyA4

-Go to cash machines in the day, preferably not ones directly on the street, better off going to a mall, then go directly back to your hotel and put the cash away (safe if there is one).

-Only carry enough cash that you're willing to lose, normally for me this about $150 USD, in places like Colombia that's enough for an entire day and a night of fun.

-Of course, don't flash your cash around, don't bring negative attention to yourself and don't bring back low class skanks to your hotel (I know, that can be difficult but love motels are cheap, so go there).

-Don't get totally wasted and sloppy, if you do, make sure that you're with friends.

-Put your wallet in your front pocket while in congested, shitty areas or on public transit.

-Don't trust bullshit scammers, there's a scam in Colombia where a well dressed guy will approach obvious foreigners with some fake police card saying they're doing ID checks, then they scam you by either taking your wallet, or trying to do onsite fines for not having your passport. If something like this seems fishy, tell them to fuck off or threaten to call the real police or even better, your embassy.