{"id":3209,"date":"2021-10-11T06:45:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T04:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/airbnb-fraudster-checked-out-with-my-keys-and-600-speakers\/"},"modified":"2021-10-11T06:45:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T04:45:05","slug":"airbnb-fraudster-checked-out-with-my-keys-and-600-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/airbnb-fraudster-checked-out-with-my-keys-and-600-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbnb fraudster checked out with my keys and \u00a3600 speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The site rejected my request to pay for new locks and refused to discuss it further<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you please ask Airbnb how it allowed a fraudster to stay in my house and steal my speakers and <\/strong><strong>keys? I rent out my home in east London whenever I go back to Ireland<\/strong><strong> to visit family<\/strong><strong>. In July I accepted a request from a woman called Clare who had a verified profile and past reviews<\/strong><strong>, and all seemed well<\/strong><strong>. The keys were left in the lockbox as usual, the guests checked themselves in<\/strong><strong> \u2013 and then threw a house party. When I returned I found my \u00a3600 speakers were gone along with the house keys. I had to spend \u00a3400 replacing the locks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Airbnb rejected my request for reimbursement and refused to discuss it further. However, after I tracked down Clare, it emerged <\/strong><strong>that <\/strong><strong>her <\/strong><strong>account had been taken over fraudulently, and that Airbnb had been made aware <\/strong><strong>of this fact on the day of the booking by <\/strong><strong>her credit card company, Barclaycard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2021\/oct\/11\/airbnb-guest-checked-out-with-keys-and-my-600-speakers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0bb15a098f49a3ed4d2ce6fee61f00d3c6d72eb5\/0_81_5000_3002\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=62a745f0c4e79252d97bf4b4e8b1ac2f\" title=\"Airbnb fraudster checked out with my keys and \u00a3600 speakers\" \/>The site rejected my request to pay for new locks and refused to discuss it further<br \/>\nCan you please ask Airbnb how it allowed a fraudster to stay in my house and steal my speakers and keys? I rent out my home in east London whenever I go back to Ireland to visit family. In July I accepted a request from a woman called Clare who had a verified profile and past reviews, and all seemed well. The keys were left in the lockbox as usual, the guests checked themselves in \u2013 and then threw a house party. When I returned I found my \u00a3600 speakers were gone along with the house keys. I had to spend \u00a3400 replacing the locks.<br \/>\nAirbnb rejected my request for reimbursement and refused to discuss it further. However, after I tracked down Clare, it emerged that her account had been taken over fraudulently, and that Airbnb had been made aware of this fact on the day of the booking by her credit card company, Barclaycard. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The site rejected my request to pay for new locks and refused to discuss it further Can you please ask Airbnb how it allowed a fraudster to stay in my house and steal my speakers and keys? I rent out my home in east London whenever I go back to Ireland to visit family. In &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/airbnb-fraudster-checked-out-with-my-keys-and-600-speakers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Airbnb fraudster checked out with my keys and \u00a3600 speakers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}