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Good liars make safe travelers.
With all due respect for what your mother told you, if you are at all concerned about your security when you travel, you have to become a proficient liar. I'm not suggesting that you offer false documents to immigration officials or give bogus credit card numbers when reserving a hotel room or cheat on your expense account. Instead I'm suggesting that you consider being less than honest during seemingly incidental conversations with people you meet along the way during your travels. Many travelers become victims because they offer way too much information about themselves to people they don't know. Successful criminals know that the best information they can collect about their potential victims comes from the poor schlemiels themselves.