The third day I was here I planned to go to Cascais. I was carrying my small wallet with the three credit cards, my drivers license and care card and a small amount of cash in a secure bag. I pulled the wallet out in order to take out a prepaid card which is used to go on the Metro and proceeded until I got down to the Metro, then I suddenly realize that my wallet had gone. The centre of Lisbon is very well known for pickpockets. Of course it completely disrupted the day. I got help from a policeman to take a Uber to the tourist police station. I spent an hour giving a report to extremely dimwitted police officer. Within half an hour, funds had been withdrawn from two credit cards and my Wise account. At the police station there was no Wi-Fi so I couldn’t do anything about it but as soon as I got Wi-Fi, I froze all the accounts and then I proceeded to contact the Royal Bank and cancel my credit cards and report some unauthorized spending on them and new credit cards will be delivered home and will be there before I arrive home. I also froze the Wise account. But then I had a problem because I had a very small amount of cash to last for the next three days and also I needed cash to pay for the tube from Heathrow to St Pancras. Anyhow, the following day, I unfroze the Wise card for a short time was able to withdraw extra cash and so my anxiety was solved. I’m so lucky that this happened on a spare day when I had time to deal with it. If it had happened, for example of that was on the way to the airport it would’ve been extra difficult to deal with it. The biggest hastle now will be getting a new drivers license and care card when I get home. I’m sure this has happened to other people so I thought I’d report it here. The police report may help with any insurance claim. I think that the banks may cover the claims on the credit cards as I was able to give them details of the police report. You can’t be too careful in storing your valuables. Luckily my passport was still in my pack in my room so that was not an issue.
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