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A legitimate Booking.com webpage; the one that fooled the author looked almost identical.

I travel for a living, yet I nearly fell for this common booking scam

In my defence, this particular scam – involving Booking.com – was probably the most sophisticated I have ever seen.

  • Robert Jackman
Scammers are creating websites that look like the official sites of airlines, then paying to come at the top of search results.

A new scam is catching out airline passengers at their most distracted

When an actual human being answered an airline customer-service hotline after a single ring, I probably should have known I was being had.

  • Rachel Dodes
A real hotel or a scene from The Sims game? One of the images of the Outlook Hotel on Expedia.

Beware booking that overseas hotel – it might not exist

The quality control at major booking sites, including Expedia and Booking.com, leaves a lot to be desired – as one traveller recently discovered.

  • Michael Gebicki
Beware these travel scams.

Twenty scams every traveller needs to know about (plus five new ones)

As the number of tourists travelling the world has boomed, so has the number of scammers and the schemes they’ve devised to part you from your cash.

  • Michael Gebicki
Rome’s Trevi Fountain is a key location for pickpockets.

After 300 years of travel scams, here’s what you need to watch out for

Tourists have always presented easy targets, but the methods of the con artists have changed over the past 300 years or so.

  • Amanda Hyde