{"id":686,"date":"2013-04-27T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/booking-a-cottage-this-summer-beware-the-holiday-let-that-becomes-a-let-down\/"},"modified":"2016-01-04T14:22:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T07:22:47","slug":"booking-a-cottage-this-summer-beware-the-holiday-let-that-becomes-a-let-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/booking-a-cottage-this-summer-beware-the-holiday-let-that-becomes-a-let-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Booking a cottage this summer? Beware the holiday let that becomes a let down"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFake holiday villas and cottages can easily turn a dream into a nightmare, as two groups booking through HomeAway found outAre you planning to book a villa or cottage this summer? Two groups that booked a property through HomeAway, sister company to Owners Direct, have lost thousands of pounds to fraudsters in a case that exposes the grave risks holidaymakers are exposed to when using these popular websites.The victims, who contacted Money independently this week, had both used HomeAway.co.uk, which claims to be “the UK’s number one holiday rentals site” and also operates OwnersDirect.co.uk. But both were defrauded out of more than \u00a32,000, one as the victim of an entirely fictitious property listing, the other because a legitimate property listing was hijacked and emails intercepted. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Fake holiday villas and cottages can easily turn a dream into a nightmare, as two...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-b4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21452,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/holiday-misery-for-the-scam-victims-who-believed-theyd-booked-a-villa-through-owners-direct\/","url_meta":{"origin":686,"position":0},"title":"Holiday misery for the scam victims who believed they\u2019d booked a villa through Owners Direct","date":"August 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Families pay for accommodation only to discover, at the last minute, it\u2019s non-existent. 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