Here are 3 relatively recent topics detailing this scam and variants that I found by doing a search for “scam” on this forum within the last 5 months.
Just got this message. Pretty sure it’s a scam. Sends a link that looks like an Airbnb login page. I’m pretty switched on and I almost put my login details in [Screenshot_2019-05-27-16-06-24-81]
This week was the victim of a Russian hacker who got my email and password thru a phishing scam.
She got access to my account (login history says from St Petersburg Russian) and:
turned off all notification alerts so I would not be informed of what she was doing,
posted 2 fake apartments in my area (photos, description, everything!) on instant booking on my profile,
switched my listings all to instant booking
and was in the process of changing my email and password when luckily I was just in …
HOSTS BEWARE I have just received a scam message via the Airbnb messaging system - the link leads to a phishing site.
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