<story><title>Booking.com hackers increase attacks on customers</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67583486</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isotopp</author><text>If you booked with Booking, and the hotel called you back, and told you they don&amp;#x27;t use Booking any more, how do you imagine did they get the information needed to call you back and knew of the booking?&lt;p&gt;What you have here is commission fraud on behalf of the hotel against Booking.com, and if you call back Booking.com and tell them about it, they will set the hotel straight.&lt;p&gt;Or you get back to the hotel, tell them you understand how commission fraud works and if they are willing to split that commission (18%) half and half with you.</text></item><item><author>kubectl_h</author><text>Within the last few days I booked a hotel on Booking.com and then got a call the next day from the hotel saying they actually don&amp;#x27;t use the Booking.com anymore (and that their account is inactive so they can&amp;#x27;t log in) and that I needed to cancel the stay through booking.com (the booking was pay on arrival but I still entered a CC).&lt;p&gt;I re-booked with the hotel directly through their site (small independently owned hotel in a ski town). The whole process felt _shady_ but also it seems like the owner couldn&amp;#x27;t find a way to get their Booking.com listing removed. I am regretting not using a virtual card number for the initial booking through Booking.com.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>petre</author><text>Booking.com hasn&amp;#x27;t paid some hotelliers for months, so there you have it. It&amp;#x27;s not comission fraud, it&amp;#x27;s either loss mitigation or the very same scam that the article describes.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;oct&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;booking-com-hotel-fees-unpaid-millions-technical-issue&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;oct&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;booking-com...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having been scammed by booking.com car rentals myself, I see no surprises there.</text></comment>
<story><title>Booking.com hackers increase attacks on customers</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67583486</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isotopp</author><text>If you booked with Booking, and the hotel called you back, and told you they don&amp;#x27;t use Booking any more, how do you imagine did they get the information needed to call you back and knew of the booking?&lt;p&gt;What you have here is commission fraud on behalf of the hotel against Booking.com, and if you call back Booking.com and tell them about it, they will set the hotel straight.&lt;p&gt;Or you get back to the hotel, tell them you understand how commission fraud works and if they are willing to split that commission (18%) half and half with you.</text></item><item><author>kubectl_h</author><text>Within the last few days I booked a hotel on Booking.com and then got a call the next day from the hotel saying they actually don&amp;#x27;t use the Booking.com anymore (and that their account is inactive so they can&amp;#x27;t log in) and that I needed to cancel the stay through booking.com (the booking was pay on arrival but I still entered a CC).&lt;p&gt;I re-booked with the hotel directly through their site (small independently owned hotel in a ski town). The whole process felt _shady_ but also it seems like the owner couldn&amp;#x27;t find a way to get their Booking.com listing removed. I am regretting not using a virtual card number for the initial booking through Booking.com.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kadoban</author><text>&amp;gt; Or you get back to the hotel, tell them you understand how commission fraud works and if they are willing to split that commission (18%) half and half with you.&lt;p&gt;That sure sounds like a crime in itself, no?</text></comment>