many complaints filed against a fake vacation rental site

2024-08-24 15:07:17

By Emma Confrere

Posted 5 hours ago,
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On this site, advertisements are collected from the Airbnb and Abritel platforms. Travel professionals fear for the reputation of their establishments.

For the last weekend of August, the online booking site offers a night for 40 euros in Ajaccio or 50 euros for Baden, in Brittany. The prices of these tourist destinations defy all competition but they raise questions. Posted on the rivierabudget.com site, hundreds of ads appear to have been copied and pasted from popular sites, such as Airbnb or Abritel. From the photos to the ad descriptions, everything is identical.

“Book your apartment or Villa now at reduced prices for an unforgettable vacation”also show the site. If Olivier thought he was getting a good deal for rent in Agde, in the south of France, he was disappointed: “The post went well, everything was reliable. Our registration, we receive an email that sends you to a payment platform. The move was made, it was in Spain, there, it started to shake me. Your transaction was eventually blocked by the receiver’s bank.

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“Bad Picture”

In Tarn, in Bressac, the manager of a holiday village has been warned by his neighbor and the tourist office of the misuse of his two advertisements. He now fears for the reputation of his establishment. “It certainly gives us a bad image”he confides enough France Interbefore adding that he filed a lawsuit. According to radio information, other complaints were also filed for identity theft or fraud in Nice, Caen and Louviers.

Cyber ​​investigators ​​​​​​from the national gendarmerie are studying the site rivierabudget.com and many anomalies have already appeared, such as its creation date, July 3. Legal notices were also stolen from a hotel of he was in Nice, which decided to file a lawsuit. This reason is far from isolated as well “Reports every week,” Captain Sébastien Possemé, head of the digital army of the national gendarmerie, told France Inter. Reports either by victims or by suspicious Internet users”. For the moment, the site rivierabudget.com is still online and does not respond to our request.

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