Exactly as described by the others. Airbnb support indifferent, promised call from the "security team" never came. Their system lulls users into a sense of security but underneath and in the T&Cs it is essentially "any problems, you're on your own". This is such an easy scam ...
Wish I had checked in this website before I parted with 2.5k£ in exactly same way as the others below. Email came from Airbnb.com asked me to trf funds to AirBnb UK, Lloyds TSB. Contacted the police and Airbnb who I have to say have been useless - three calls in and nothing back. I now realise that ...
We were also victim of the already many times mentioned type of AirBNB frauds and scams. A beautiful apartment in New York for 10 days was on the website. We started to exchange the usual information, ON the AirBNB website. Then the "apartment owner" gave his Email address, and told us ...
I booked a chalet rental in France via www.Airbnb.com and was sent an email from [email protected] with the wire transfer details to a Barclays bank account named "Airbnb INC" with IBAN # GB BARC 2092 6303 4836 57. My booking was never confirmed by Airbnb and they told me that it was a ...
There was a listing that was screwy by a "Joanne Baylis" host - when we tried to book using credit card info, it sent us to another property and couldn't book. Of course there is no way of automatically contacting AirBnB "unless there are safety concerns" so we just hit ...
I have booked an accommodation via Airbnb with the thought of using their payment booking procedure. An email, which looked like it was generated by Airbnb was send to my personal email (linked to airbnb) within 15 minutes of when I requested the booking. The email from '[email protected]' was ...