fraud cyber criminals it’s getting harder and harder detect and avoid. Faced with increasing improvement in online security systems, fraudsters are now more complex methods To steal your information and money.
About fraud strategies so dangerous that they force us to take it every day greater measures when we surf the internet. We cannot and must accept nothing as it is. always be suspicious Even within any suspicious movement Our reliable pages: new scam ‘phishing’ becomes what hundreds of users condemn on their social networks these days from the app itself Reservation, especially chat.
A very dangerous scam
Tik Tok account ‘Tax for everyone’ (@tu_blog_fiscal) reported on his profile this cybercrime that took place on the application of one of the world’s largest travel platforms. “I understand very dangerous Because Not your typical email Tiktoker comments: “Emails sent to you with spelling errors or from suspicious email addresses.” fraud within the application”To add.
Scammer, according to the account manager’s statement on TikTok “He hacks the reservation system and impersonates the hotel itself.” They send you a message when there is very little time left until you arrive at the hotel. connection from the app that tells you this There was an error in payment and you have to pay to stay. “They send you a link so you can pay, and if you go there, They already ruined you“, To explain.
About A scam that is very difficult to detect: “This is very possible because in Reservation Reservations are usually paid for 2 or 3 days stay. so you can go to the hotel,” he warns, “Taxation for everyone.”
This is cybercrime It’s not always the same. Sometimes they may ask you Verify your card or confirm its details. What always works the same way is the method of capturing information: message in platform chat.
“This happened to me. They sent me a payment link to pay for the reservation. That’s what they said was for it. checkcard And they will do this to me come back now“Taxation for all,” another TikTok user comments on the video.
A London user on X (formerly Twitter) (@WISE16) condemned this You received two messages from the Booking app Regarding the reservation he made for the end of the year: “I received it today […] two messages asking me urgently this confirms my credit card information or the reservation will be cancelled.
From the chat, Booking allegedly informs you that: card verification errorYour reservation may be cancelled. Invite the user to solve the “problem” “revalidate your card” through a “private” link.
The link starts like this “https://booking.net725.com/secure-checkout” and ends with the customer’s personal data. In the body of the message, “Booking will charge your card for the booking amount and It will get back to you in a minute. This is verification of your card; so make sure your card is verified. you have sufficient funds to pay for your reservationOtherwise, verification cannot be completed.”
Additionally, the following text appears at the end of the message: “Only ignore this message if you do not know this reservation” or there is 24 hours from the moment you receive the message to verify the card or Your reservation will be canceled without coming back Deposit“.
Internet user X explains in his thread: This message was suspicious for two reasons.. The first of these, URL If “booking.net725.com” is opened separately in the browser, It did not redirect to any web page.but a “Error 404“. The second reason is payment pagewhere you need to put your personal information and banking information, phone prefix flags did not match the correct ones. In the attached screenshot you can see that the Andorran flag is located under the +93 (Spain) prefix.
Who should be responsible?
When the British user saw these signs, I wanted to contact the company’s customer service He organized trips to explain what was happening. “After speaking and explaining warning signs What I was sure of was this:‘hack’person on the phone He didn’t seem to understand the importance “For what I condemned,” he laments in the title. “While I was trying to resolve the issue, the staff decided to hang me“, To add.
He’s not the only internet user report this situation on social networks. “This happened to me and Booking washed their hands of it… shouldn’t they take responsibility?”a user asks this question in the comments of the ‘Taxation for all’ video.
But others demanded protection at the banking institution or the hotel itself your reserve. “It happened to me and My bank was not interestedbecause they claimed that I gave my card information as a volunteer“Replying to another user on TikTok. In the same comments list, another netizen describes her positive experience: “The hotel cut me off from what they defrauded me.”
Response to reservation
The booking company points out that these fraudulent practices are a result of hotels and apartments being hacked, as fraudsters impersonate their identities. “Neither Booking.com’s systems nor its infrastructure were breached in any way.”they declare.
The company notices an increase in cybercrime: “Recently, We have detected an increase in the number of cybercriminals attacks that attack the electronic systems of our ‘partners’.” Therefore, they advise customers to “check accommodation payment policy or if they see anything suspicious, we ask them to contact Booking directly.
company for now is not responsible for these frauds In the ‘Reservation’ application “Security checks” And “training and orientation“To their ‘partners’ to fight these crimes.”