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I think you watched too many movies. In real life this even happens to people from the west working there. They need your passport to take a copy, and then it's

I think you watched too many movies. In real life this even happens to people from the west working there. They need your passport to take a copy, and then it's gone. You're going to fight them then and there? Good luck with that, security and the cops won't be nice to you. I once worked at a company where some had to go to Dubai to install one of our systems. Some of my more knowledgeable colleagues refused to go, and after hearing their stories, I would also never go.

tejohnso 4y ago
It sounds like you're describing a movie plot set up to me. Any time I've given my passport to an official I received it back immediately. And you're saying the police are in on the scam? That's fiction as far as I'm concerned. I guess that's my answer though. Things are just drastically different in some places and the authorities are on side to support the perpetrators rather than the victims.
- koonsolo 4y ago
  Haha, you're funny. You have absolutely no idea. You think you're in the US or EU? I'll leave this as a small taste of what can happen: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31692914 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31692914. Who says you're the victim? In their eyes you're the perpetrator.
- ithkuil 4y ago
  18y ago I had to attend a meeting in an Italian city. The building had security and they asked us to give them our passports and that we'll get them back on our way out. I was a bit confused, but as a junior developer I wasn't going to make a scene for that,.when apparently nobody from the group was blinking at the request (perhaps everybody was thinking the same?). Luckily a senior manager from $bigcorp barged in and when asked to hand his password just confidently yelled "there is no fucking way I'm going to give you my passport" and walked through. We followed.

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I think you watched too many movies. In real life this even happens to people from the west working there. They need your passport to take a copy, and then it's

by koonsolo 4y ago

tejohnso 4y ago
It sounds like you're describing a movie plot set up to me. Any time I've given my passport to an official I received it back immediately. And you're saying the police are in on the scam? That's fiction as far as I'm concerned. I guess that's my answer though. Things are just drastically different in some places and the authorities are on side to support the perpetrators rather than the victims.
- koonsolo 4y ago
  Haha, you're funny. You have absolutely no idea. You think you're in the US or EU? I'll leave this as a small taste of what can happen: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31692914 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31692914. Who says you're the victim? In their eyes you're the perpetrator.
- ithkuil 4y ago
  18y ago I had to attend a meeting in an Italian city. The building had security and they asked us to give them our passports and that we'll get them back on our way out. I was a bit confused, but as a junior developer I wasn't going to make a scene for that,.when apparently nobody from the group was blinking at the request (perhaps everybody was thinking the same?). Luckily a senior manager from $bigcorp barged in and when asked to hand his password just confidently yelled "there is no fucking way I'm going to give you my passport" and walked through. We followed.