>>>>>>I just read this email from my daughter Emily. Can anyone help?
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>>>>>>Dad my wallet was just stolen. It has my debit and credit card and the sapphire card. I need them cancelled asap. Idk how I'm going to get money now. Ally is helping me now but idk what to do simce the mail system sucks
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>>>>>I would second Mike Gagnon's suggestion: Western Union. I have sent tons of money to the east euro countries via Western Union and it works and secure. As long as your daughter has a driver's license or a passport to verify her name.
>>>>>Sorry for your and your daughter's troubles.
>>>>>Also, maybe someone from Prague who is on UT can offer her help.
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>>>>She is OK. I have never felt so relieved in my life.
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>>>This is very good. I agree; money and credit card can be and will be replaced. I am sure she learned the lesson of being more accurate with valuables in Europe. Where I grew up pick pocketing was a very common thing. And still is in most European countries.
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>>I've lived and worked in London for over 25 years and spent a lot of time in Paris and I've never had my pocket picked. Neither have either of my children or my wife.
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>And we can safely extrapolate your experience to the millions who visit Europe every year :)


And we can extrapolate your hearsay to a value judgement on European crime. :-)