I was in Turkey when I was taking pictures around midnight time. Along come two individuals who ask me to take a picture of them... After making some small talk, they ask if I want to accompany them to a "restaurant" (they said their hotel was near mine and we'd be back in an hour) upon which I agree (stupid move). When we get to the restaurant and we sit down, three girls immediately join us. One worker comes and asks if I'm willing to pay for one of the girl's drinks. I wasn't interested at all and so I flat out said I don't want to order any alcoholic drinks... at this point, one of the lads I came with said it's just juice and the worker started pouring a drink (Later come to found out that this was their most expensive alcoholic beverage at this bar). At this point, I'm really uncomfortable and I repeatedly tell one of the guys I came with that I had to leave and he tells me the metro is shut down and we'll have to take the taxi and that we'll leave very shortly.
Shortly thereafter, the bill comes and it is an enormous amount ($1500). One of the guys says we'll split the bill between us three but I argue that I hadn't agreed to any of this and I don't have the money to pay for my share of the bill. At this point, the owner and his cronies surrounded me and start shouting. Worst case scenario, I was going to pull out my credit card so I could dispute the charge when I got home. They forced me to take out my debit card and took me to the ATM down the road where I was forced to put in my pin and the man withdrew the money. At the moment, I was so shocked that I didn't understand I had just been scammed. I had my flight home the very next morning.
I talk to my bank and they said I should get a police report. Unfortunately, the police only accepts in person reports so I'm pretty much screwed there. I wrote up a report as to what exactly transpired and I had the document also translated into Turkish. I submitted these two documents to my bank and they told me it'll take an X number of days for them to come up with a resolution.
Do you think I'll get that money back? Is there any other course of action I can take?
Submitted April 07, 2018 at 06:24PM by dunhurtmepls https://ift.tt/2Jsamol
