{"id":45006,"date":"2025-10-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=45006"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:38:54","slug":"digital-entry-europe-text-scammers-mumbais-2nd-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/digital-entry-europe-text-scammers-mumbais-2nd-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Entry Europe\/Text Scammers\/Mumbai&#8217;s 2nd Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2><strong>EES Border Checks Starting Now in Europe<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve mentioned Europe\u2019s new entry and border system a few times now but this week marked the start of the official roll-out, with all countries on board by April. On the plus side, immigration lines should move faster and be more like Global Entry ones once they work the kinks out and passport stamping will disappear. On the downside, they\u2019ll know exactly how long you\u2019ve been on the continent, plus your movements will be tracked unless you go all Jason Bourne with multiple passports.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/travel-europe.europa.eu\/ees\/ltr\">See the details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Text Scams and \u201cPig Butchering\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I linked to a bizarre story a few months ago about a whole city in Burma built by Chinese internet scammers, using forced labor, and Planet Money highlighted another one in Cambodia in this story:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/05\/23\/1253043749\/pig-butchering-scam-crypto-tether\">The Secret World Behind Those Scammy Text Messages<\/a>. \u201cDoes anyone really fall for those?\u201d you may be wondering, and the answer is a big yes, for big losses. This week the US Department of Justice&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/10\/14\/bitcoin-doj-chen-zhi-pig-butchering-scam.html\">seized $15 billion in Bitcoin<\/a>&nbsp;from just one of the perpetrators running a big \u201cpig butchering\u201d scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Mumbai Has a New Airport<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After 20 years of setbacks and diversions, Mumbai\u2019s overtaxed airport in India is getting a sibling. This will hopefully take some pressure off by moving some of the 54 million annual arrivals to the city. The opening is just phase one, with two airlines committed to flying there, but more should follow as it expands to multiple terminals and runways. See more info here on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/10\/08\/travel\/navi-mumbai-international-airport-opens-intl-hnk\">Navi Airport (NMI)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>World\u2019s Coolest Neighborhoods?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year&nbsp;<em>Time Out<\/em>&nbsp;publishes its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/travel\/coolest-neighbourhoods-in-the-world-2025\">list of the world\u2019s coolest neighborhoods<\/a>. No matter how well-traveled you are, you\u2019ll find plenty you\u2019ve never heard of, much less experienced. (I\u2019ve only been in three on this year\u2019s list.) It\u2019s clearly written by people with feet on the ground though, unlike many similar round-ups from big publications, and isn\u2019t influenced by who bought advertising that month. It\u2019s a good list for nomads looking to find the local vibe since the purpose is to highlight \u201cplaces that represent the soul of our cities, while maintaining their own unique local character that draws people in to live, work and play.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/cbjyU?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Better Life for Half the Price<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The World\u2019s Cheapest Destinations<\/em>. See\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nomadico.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">past editions here,<\/a>\u00a0where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomadico issue #176<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2385],"tags":[2386],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45007,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45006\/revisions\/45007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}