Imagine arriving at an Airbnb on the eve of the Comrades Marathon only to find the listing has been hijacked by a scammer and there is no room.
As to how the fraudsters managed to work the scam, Airbnb said: “We have teams dedicated to proactively identifying fraud on the platform and on the back end. Our systems help prevent bad actors from using Airbnb and automatically blocks fake listings.”It’s the scam that won’t go away
If you have a listing as a small business in a Telkom directory you’re a target, and that’s how the scammers get your number. In Leanie’s case, the large print indicated the listing was for the “Johannesburg Telephone Directory” and a “free Telkom 1023 entry”.
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