There will always be scams all around you and for a city as old as Rome, as visited, loved, and expensive, here are the scams in Rome to watch out for … My peronal experiences are no. 1, 8, 11, 17 & 19 Humans are ingenious!!! The amount of tricks we have developed over the millennia is incalculable. I imagine the first scam happened when some pitiful and weak human somewhere convinced a wild and dangerous wolf that it was better to eat that delicious-smelling piece of cooked meat in his hand than to look for other game elsewhere. Then man upgraded his game and moved on to tricking cows…