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Scammed After Paying Outside of AirBnB

Akim Farag · 2018-03-16 15:32:45

Hi there, I have been the victim of a very intricate scam. I wanted to book a holiday to Greece and chose a Villa from the legitimate Airbnb website which was adveritised as being available. I was tricked into paying for the Villa outside of the Airbnb platform by receiving emails from the host that were exact replicas of…

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#32 16-03-2018 10:55pm
L1011

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Akim Farag wrote: »

Oh yeah I knew that aswell man, again thank you for stating the obvious haha

Do you know what? Thread locked. You don't appear to want advice.

Post like this again on this forum and its a ban.

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#33 17-03-2018 9:30am
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@the_syco carded for language

OP - you say you sent the money by Bank transfer to Spain. Go talk to your bank to see if that can be reversed. Report it to Airbnb and report to the Gardaí

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