PARIS, May 4 -- Italy may not be the most visited country in Europe, but it comes first in another infamous ranking - for its incidences of pickpocketing. Tourists are most likely to fall victim to pickpockets near Rome's Trevi Fountain, the Colosseum or the Pantheon.

While the Paris transport system has put into place announcements warning of pickpockets in a variety of languages, there seem to be many areas popular with tourists throughout Europe that are rife with these criminals.

And it seems that many tourists have fallen victim to this practice in Italy, with several mentions of pickpocketing in the vicinity of one of Rome's main monuments, Trevi Fountain.

A UK-based insurance company, Quote Zone, has analysed the proportion of m...