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Travel scams target the moment you are committed to a trip and least able to verify. Fake booking sites, hotel payment-verification phishing, fake visa services and rental scams all use realistic details and time pressure. Scammers may even reference genuine reservation data to make messages look convincing.
Bogus flight, hotel and package sites that take payment for reservations that don't exist.
Messages posing as your hotel asking to 're-verify' card details, sometimes using real booking data.
Sites and agents charging inflated or bogus fees for visas, ETAs and travel authorisations.
Fake apartment, villa and car rentals that take a deposit for a property that isn't available.
Imposter 'airline help' numbers and social accounts that steal payments and booking details.
Bogus policies that take premiums for cover that doesn't exist or won't pay valid claims.
Unlicensed guides and bogus tour operators who take payment for tours that don't happen as promised.
Unofficial 'taxi' and transfer touts who overcharge, reroute, or take prepayment and vanish.
Bogus event, attraction and transport tickets sold online that don't work at the gate.
Messages demanding card 're-verification' to 'secure' a booking, capturing full card details.
Bogus 'your trip is cancelled, claim a refund' messages that steal card and banking details.