TRAVELING SAFE
Foreign Embassies & Consulates
Emergency number: 112
Local Police: 092
Even though it´s generally safe traveling around Spain, be always aware. Unfortunately pickpocketers and muggers
tend to pick on tourists or anyone who looks absent minded at the time.
When traveling on the Metro System never leave your baggage unattended, keep an eye on your wallet and your valuables.
Airport Parkings, Beaches and crowded streets are hot spots for pickpocketers and muggers too.
If something happens to you go to the nearest police station and report it. It will help.
It´s recommended that you have a copy of your passport/documentation scanned and loaded on to your email should you need one.
As a tourist, it is best to look at it as part of the adventure of visiting a not so different different place.
Common Swindles in Spain
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Trileros: Common in busy streets, they put a cardboard table and they start playing about where is the little ball under the cup, should you put any money on
it you´ll end up loosing it.
ATM: More sophisticated crime, your cards can be duplicated and being used to draw money somewhere else. Should you see something just not right about
the cash machine,like a wire coming out of it, or that it has been forced in some way, just go to another one.
Premium numbers: Fake jobs, erotic lines, there´s a lot of premium numbers you get from your local newspaper.