The New Scam that Supplants Hotels on WhatsApp: Already Totals 98 Complaints in Euskadi
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The Basque Government's Department of Security reported that between April and September 2026, most of the fraud was committed on a booking platform...
In the last six months, the Ertzaintza has recorded almost a hundred complaints related to scams about hotel reservations in the three territories of Euskadi, many of them in Bizkaia. Most have been made on a reservation platform, although in the Basque Police there are also several made with the websites of hotels and agrotourisms.
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noticiasdealava.eusErtzaintza's Cybersecurity Coordination Headquarters has warned about the increase in cases of a scam that involves requesting money transfers via WhatsApp to people who have previously made a real reservation in hotel establishments.
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