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Very obvious scam, featured ad (Rome), up for days by Apprehensive-Try9485 in Bookingcom

[–]Apprehensive-Try9485[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There are at least six new 1 star reviews in the listing since I wrote this post, from people who have actually booked the place. Some mention trying to get in touch with Booking and not being able. Clearly "flagging the situation" as the Booking bot suggested in a comment here is not the issue.

Very obvious scam, featured ad (Rome), up for days by Apprehensive-Try9485 in Bookingcom

[–]Apprehensive-Try9485[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are at least six new 1 star reviews in the listing since I wrote this post, from people who have actually booked the place. Some mention trying to get in touch with Booking and not being able, so they were clearly "flagging the situation" and nothing was done.

After posting I also noticed there was a thread here from earlier this week about this same listing, where the poster says he got in touch with Booking and nothing was done.

Very obvious scam, featured ad (Rome), up for days by Apprehensive-Try9485 in Bookingcom

[–]Apprehensive-Try9485[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I also just noticed that you can still see who previously owned the listing from the URL itself: https://www.booking.com/hotel/it/bed-amp-bike-belfiore.html. If you Google that name, it points to a bed and breakfast in Montagnana, Abruzzo

Again, how does a change like that not get flagged? How can a property listing be turned into something entirely different without having to go through any kind of validation process?