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 this is a huge numbers game they do not vet the owners which I was unaware of. Like the others my emails came from @Airbnb.com. Feel sick - will chase for reimbursement as husband is a lawyer. What kind of a business is Airbnb - someone is running around using their emails - putting fake properties on their website and they DO NOT CARE. I have written twice to the CEO and nothing back at all. The Company from what I can see is private, owned by three individuals who I presume want to IPO at some stage - no one will go near them with this kind of bad publicity. I am telling as many people as possible. I believe these criminals are London based and that Airbnb should be contacting the FBI / Scotland Yard.
If I was the CEO of AirBnb. Brian. [email protected] I'd be trying to protect my business and not ignoring innocent victims and hoping they'll just disappear. Unless of course AirBnB work on numbers and we are a small minority of users who have been scammed which are written into their business model! Also why not notify users of this scam on their website unless they are thinking of IPO-ing and don't want bad publicity. Well now you've got it boys.
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