With the All Saints’ Day long weekend just around the corner, many Spaniards are preparing and have already booked to take a getaway taking advantage of this holiday. Many movements are expected throughout the country, which consequently means that occupancy of hotels and tourist apartments will also multiply during these dates.
So much movement is not good news for the hospitality industry, but as has been happening in recent years, Cybercriminals are taking advantage of these dates marked with many trips to distribute all types of scams and deceptions related to hotel reservations, apartments, rental cars or other services that tourists and travelers demand.
Now, several users are reporting a new scam that has proliferated in the booking app Booking.com, but it is not that the website itself has been hacked, but that There are some of the hotels that are promoted on said platform that have been compromised with this deception.
As indicated, everything begins with a message from supposedly the hotel where you made the reservation informing you that you must reconfirm your reservation. Everything seems very real, since they clone the Booking website almost perfectly, and include real photos of the hotel, and that is why when they ask you to Due to a reconfiguration of the regulations, you have to fill out a form with your personal information and all your bank card information.
One of the most striking things is that in the section that asks you to fill out your bank details, there is one in which you have to enter the amount you have paid for the reservationand if you don’t remember they tell you “the average is 300 euros.” Furthermore, in the message, which generally arrives by email, They eliminate the display of the link and make it as if it were an email (booking@…) to avoid raising suspicions of phishing.
Tips to avoid the scam
- Suspicion of unexpected emails: If something sounds strange to us or they ask us for something unusual, it is always best to be suspicious.
- Contact the official source in another way, for example, call the hotel you are going to to ask them.
- Never share personal or banking information via email.
- Examine the email carefully, check the sender, spelling mistakes or aspects that do not fit.
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