>>>>>>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 :)

I think Nick's point was that you may have over-generalized. Probably a better statement would be that there are places in Europe where pickpocketing is common. I'd probably add that it's particularly a problem in areas frequented by tourists.

Quick story (knowing that "data" is not the plural of "anecdote"): A few years ago, we went on a group trip to Central/East Europe. In Budapest, right by Saint Steven's church, one of our group noticed that her passport was missing. (We'd just arrived in Budapest that day, and hadn't yet been to the hotel, where we could lock things up.) A few minutes, she was approached by a woman who said she'd found the passport and clearly wanted to paid for giving it back. We were pretty sure that the woman (or a confederate) had stolen it in the first place as part of an ongoing scam.

Tamar