The traveler safety platform — scam database + country field guides.
We publish travel safety books on Amazon — pocket-sized atlases of tourist scams, sourced from police records, local press, and verified traveler reports.
- The Big Book of Travel Scams (2026 ed.) — the master atlas, 1,959 documented scams across 24 countries
- Country volumes for 20+ countries, from Italy and France to Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Egypt, and more
- Themed field guides — Medical Tourism, Dental Tourism, Cosmetic Surgery
A free traveler safety database. Every entry is sourced — Reddit threads, police bulletins, embassy advisories, local press. Today: 1,168 scams documented across 123 countries.
Most travel writing tells you where to go. Almost nothing is written about what goes wrong when you get there.
The locals know — which taxis rig their meters, which "tourist information" booths sell fake tickets, which restaurant scams hit at the end of the meal. Visitors don't. And nobody had bothered to write it all down.
So we did. City by city. Scam by scam. With sources.
If you've ever been pickpocketed in Barcelona, overcharged in Bangkok, or stopped by "police" in Cairo — you'll recognize what's in here. The point is to get it into the next traveler's hands before they go.
- /scams/ — scams by country and city, with avoidance tactics, source citations, and original comic illustrations in each country's native art style (Hergé ligne-claire for France, Ottoman miniatures for Turkey, Đông Hồ folk woodblock for Vietnam, Amar Chitra Katha for India, and so on)
- /health/ — medication legality, emergency numbers, hospital quality ratings
- /countries/ — country safety hubs
- /compare/ — side-by-side comparisons
- /alerts/ — current advisories
The site is built to be machine-readable. See llms.txt, .well-known/agents.json, and the JSON API at tabiji.ai/api/.
Editor: Bernard Huang (about)
He edits the safety series, runs the research pipeline, and signs every byline you see on a scam page.
For developers, see ARCHITECTURE.md and DESIGN.md.