New Airbnb scam dupes several Telegraph readers
A few weeks ago I booked an apartment for a long weekend on Ibiza for myself and some friends through Airbnb’s website. I had heard about people being scammed by paying direct so I only communicated with the host through Airbnb’s email service. I also paid by credit card through the website payment portal. The rental of £900 was charged to my Visa card at the end of April.
Shortly afterwards I received an email from Airbnb saying that the card payment had been declined and I needed to arrange an international bank transfer within the next 24 hours to secure the apartment. Stupidly, I did as asked. I transferred the money straight away to someone I assumed was the host as they had all the details of my reservation.