Scams like these

[AuSammy]

I won't touch booking.com. There are too many stories exactly like yours that suggest to me that their systems are, or have been, compromised in some way, and have become a scammers paradise. Book direct with the provider is my advice.

Stopped using them around end of the '90s 2010s when I read too many alarming stories on social media . I use hotels . com now and get the one free night in ten plus price match guarantee.

 

[Warks]

Stopped using them around end of the '90s when I read too many alarming stories on social media . I use hotels . com now and get the one free night in ten plus price match guarantee.

I didn't even know they were around back then. The first ones I remember were lastminute and Wotif and that might have been early 2000s? It's all such a blur now. Having been on the web almost since the beginning I have to wonder at the changes.

 

[TheCollecter]

I very nearly fell for this. Very realistic. I have my reasons to suspect this is inside job.

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Unless I typed wrong, why would they send you a link I can’t, nor should I be able to, get to?

 

[AuSammy]

I didn't even know they were around back then. The first ones I remember were lastminute and Wotif and that might have been early 2000s? It's all such a blur now. Having been on the web almost since the beginning I have to wonder at the changes.

You are right. I should have typed late 2010s. Just before covid when I stopped using. Corrected

The kernel of the company is 30yo but worldwide prominence was a few years later when they adopted .com suffix.