A new series of fraud on Booking.com is spreading, stole the money of the guests by breaking the accommodation account

During the fraud series on Booking.com, $ 177 million of the guests were stolen in three months, and criminals for the first time the owners of the angel and then the guest money were stolen. About the new fraud series 24.hu mentionedThe journalist also tried to cheat by the fraudsters.

The journalist was booked in reservation, but in November and January received a strange message: The hotel wrote that the reservation “requires immediate treatment”, called them on the specific email address to solve the problem, otherwise they will be deleted. The message does not seem suspicious because it came directly through its reservation system, from the hotel's account, and not from an unknown address. The journalist inquired about the specific email address, but from now on, everything has become more suspicious.

In the answer, the fraudsters wrote that the reservation will be deleted. “The reason for this is that you did not fill the reservation model properly. In order to avoid this, you need to do the control of short information.” The attached link, however and reservations. Special attention was paid to not leaving the page for five minutes because the system was loaded, and warned again that if the steps were not taken, they will be canceled and apologize for the inconvenience that caused it.

Booking.com answered the twenty -fourth question that their system was not broken, but some of their residence partners were victims of the e -mail messages of the environment, which in some cases caused unauthorized arrival to the Booking.com account.

The National Police headquarters are known 112 cases of the past three months (until the end of January), many of the guests have been stolen. According to police statistics, the damage to November was 32.3 million HUF, in December 136.7 million and 8 million Huf in January. Thus, in three months, 177 million HUFs of the Hungarian guests were stolen by reserving accommodations on the reservation, but the summary was already delivered to criminals. On average, passengers were damaged by 580,000 fornas.