Comments on: Fake Airbnb website, don’t be fooled! https://www.airbnbhell.com/fake-airbnb-website/ Uncensored Airbnb Stories from Hosts & Guests Thu, 12 May 2016 22:28:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: pat hokianga https://www.airbnbhell.com/fake-airbnb-website/comment-page-1/#comment-9639 Thu, 12 May 2016 22:28:39 +0000 http://www.airbnbhell.com/fake-airbnb-website/#comment-9639 A number of them show awesome apartments on various web sites at ridiculous rates and they do look to good to be true. I replied to a few of them and a passport photo appeared of James from the UK who owns the apartment in Bowshar but left due to his contract ending. Blah blah. Funny how expats cannot own property in Bowshar. Anyway, whomever, sent me the Airbnb site 2 days later, forgot to adjust the comments as 1 comment read, Shelia was as a great host.!!!. Do be careful out there.

]]> By: Rob https://www.airbnbhell.com/fake-airbnb-website/comment-page-1/#comment-7550 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 18:47:27 +0000 http://www.airbnbhell.com/fake-airbnb-website/#comment-7550 Exacty same story with me except that the apartment is in Toronto.

The guy supposedly had to leave for the UK. Got a job there. Need someone to move into his furnished apartment.

To show how trustworthy he was, he emailed me a copy of his passport and wanted my details (which I believe will be used to blackmail me later).

He said I wire transferred the money to him and then he will walk to Airbnb office in London to give them his keys, bla bla bla.

What he didn’t is that I stayed close to the apartment complex and my friend live on the same floor as the apartment number the scammer mentioned. It turned out everything was copy and paste from Airbnb website.

More research using google. It turned out the scammer is from Nigeria using UK number as a ruse.

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