Scams change as dodgy characters try to stay ahead of the game, so chat with other travellers and tourism officials to stay abreast of the latest hazards.

The Sunday morning Wazemmes market is a riotous blend of the French and North African, peopled with dodgy characters.

The Wall Street Journal said, "Burleigh uses the story of the James Ossuary to trace the eccentric and sometimes dodgy characters who buy, trade and deal in antiquities.

Look: he's a dodgy character, he's got a huge holdall with him and we think it's full of drugs.

The French Riviera has long been a favorite playland for dodgy characters of all stripes.

I don't know whether any were drug dealers, but there was always a few dodgy characters about.

The pub was reintroduced in 2009; however, it is now filled with dodgy characters.

Well, there were a couple of dodgy characters drank in The Meikle that were always trying to offload the odd video or hi-fi, but certainly no-one who could deal with fine art and jewellry.

Some dodgy character has procured these smoke alarm rods, packed a whole lot of them into a suitcase and pretended he had something to sell.

The raid, he said, was carried out by the state police, and "it involved some dodgy character who was alleging that we had stolen five hundred thousand dollars from Citibank."