Other Tourist Scams in Baku, Azerbaijan
Timeshares, fake police, charity fraud, and miscellaneous scams targeting visitors. Below are the other scams scams reported in Baku — how they work and how to avoid them.
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Last updated: April 2, 2026
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Other Scams Scams
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How it works
Carpet merchants in the Old City (Icheri Sheher) and along Neftchilar Avenue sell machine-made or modern carpets as genuine hand-woven Azerbaijani antiques, accompanied by forged certificates of authenticity stamped with official-looking export permits. Tourists pay AZN 500–2000 (€275–1100) believing they are acquiring a collectible item, only to discover on return home that the carpet is a low-cost reproduction worth a fraction of the purchase price. In some cases, the export certificate itself is fraudulent, causing the carpet to be confiscated at customs.
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11 total warnings across all categories