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Airbnb Super Scammer Allegedly Made $7M Listing Fake Properties, Running Bait-and-Switch Schemes: Indictment (people.com)

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According to an indictment attached to the arrest warrant obtained by PEOPLE, Shray Goel accepted 10,000 reservations for 100 properties — some of which never existed

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[–] breadsmasher 6 points 9 months ago

It won’t happen, but AirBNB should be held partially accountable for having a platform which allows this to happen in the first place. They did nothing to prevent the scheme, and barely helped the victims at all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The guest who booked at the highest price was able to actually stay at the property, and Goel would cancel all other reservations using a “false excuse” as to why the property suddenly became unavailable, according to the indictment.

Goel was FAR from the only host using this approach to scam AirBnB customers out of $$ and ruin vacation plans. I hope the discovery includes the attempts people made to get the platforms to actually do something about the increasingly common behavior from hosts.

[–] Rambomst 1 points 9 months ago

I used Airbnb in Malaysia once... That was a cockroach infested hell-hole, Airbnb refused to give me my money back. Great company :(