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.

View attachment 516871

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.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

On the weekend I received a WhatsApp message telling me that I needed to reconfirm a booking we have up at Maggie later in the year. This was booked through booking.com. The message had every detail and without thinking I hit the confirm booking link. The next page got the alarm bells ringing. Select this link to pay $€317 and I thought stop and escape.

I contacted the accom on Maggie and they confirmed my suspicions that it was a scam. They said let booking.com know what I did but of course I've had nothing back from them.

A couple of days later I reduced an email saying that I hadn't responded to the WhatsApp message and that our booking would be cancelled. I just flagged it as spam. I just checked the spam folder in Gmail and there's another email
there.

View attachment 516867View attachment 516868

Was booking.com hacked?

Then while I'm typing this a spam sms!

View attachment 516869

Amazing, a miraculous son. Hahahaha

Yes, booking.com did get hacked.
Was talked about on here for a while, people who had confirmed bookings, and had paid, were sent messages, some from odd places, as yours, asking for more $.
Sad really, I was with booking.com for a while, got to silver status.
Will not be using them anymore.
---
Its gotten so bad, that the scammers know, when and where a person has booked, and you cant tell me its just by chance the scammers know it.
In your case, if they have gotten the date of your stay right, and then name of the hotel/resort right on spec, then its a very deep result that the scammers have gotten.
Bad, mate, very bad.
As you have replied to them, probably your details will now be onsold.

 

[prozac]

Yes, booking.com did get hacked.
Was talked about on here for a while, people who had confirmed bookings, and had paid, were sent messages, some from odd places, as yours, asking for more $.
Sad really, I was with booking.com for a while, got to silver status.
Will not be using them anymore.
---
Its gotten so bad, that the scammers know, when and where a person has booked, and you cant tell me its just by chance the scammers know it.
In your case, if they have gotten the date of your stay right, and then name of the hotel/resort right on spec, then its a very deep result that the scammers have gotten.
Bad, mate, very bad.
As you have replied to them, probably your details will now be onsold.

You'll know you are in trouble when the hackers send you reminders your passport will expire soon.

 

[Brissy1]

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

View attachment 516891

It has fileshare. as part of the address?

Or, part of the seemingly innocuous westpac address is in cyrillic, eg a cyrillic letter that looks just like C is S. I read that this cons people who think that hovering mouse reveals the true address link.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Re: scams in phone calls, and that businesses in Aus, have to register their phone number, and their names.
But these:
(03)7052 **16, I dont know who it is, and its just a missed call, am not game to call them back.
Lucky my phone has the circle and cross on it, and didnt sound.
Its probably (For English press 1, for Chinese press 2)... thingo.