Con men and thieves are going to elaborate lengths to steal from Britons on holidays abroad.
Those taking breaks overseas have fallen foul of the "bus breakdown", where a driver pretends the vehicle has failed in the middle of nowhere and demands money from passengers to be collected.
In another scam, a taxi driver forces passengers to pay a fine for not wearing seat belts, then passes the money to an accomplice posing as a policeman, revealed Sainsbury's Travel Money.
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