£600 for cheese? The Brazilian beach scams that cost visitors dear

Travellers warned to beware of debit card cons after one was charged 1,500 for a kebab and another 3,000 for corn on the cob

When Lisa Selby* used her debit card to pay for two slices of barbecued cheese from a beach vendor in Rio de Janeiro, she expected to pay 40 reais (5.90) for the snack.

But shortly after the payment had gone through, she realised that she had been charged 4,000 reais (590) after the vendor added two extra zeros to the card reader.