If you are booking a holiday it pays to be cautious.
With so many ways now to book a holiday the leisure industry is a magnet for fraudsters. What you think may be a legitimate site, very often is not.
The statistics coming out of America give pause for thought.
Almost one in four American travelers reported booking on what they thought was a hotel website, only to find later it was another site, according to AHLA research released in April. That’s up dramatically from the just 6% of travelers who reported being duped by a lookalike in 2015
This article below which contains decent common sense measures you can take to protect yourself.
There are about eight hotel reservations made in the U.S. every second. But a growing number of people are being scammed when they go to book a room. In fact, almost one in four American travelers reported booking on what they thought was a hotel website, only to find later it was another site, according to AHLA research released in April. That’s up dramatically from the just 6% of travelers who reported being duped by a lookalike in 2015.
http://time.com/money/5050538/hotel-booking-scam-protect-yourself/
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