{"id":2092,"date":"2015-07-16T14:35:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T14:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2015-07-16T14:35:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T14:35:59","slug":"air-bnb-email-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/air-bnb-email-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Air BnB Email Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>The Advice Centre at Sheffield Hallam has been made aware of email fraud linked to the Air BnB accommodation booking website.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Please be aware when using this website that payments are made\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">through the site and not via a bank transfer.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Students are receiving emails from fake Air BnB accounts asking for payments to be made outside of the website to a personal bank account.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Air BnB&#8217;s terms and conditions state that this is not how they take payment.<\/span> You can find extra guidance on this on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airbnb.co.uk\/help\/article\/199\" target=\"_blank\">Air BnB website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Always read the terms and conditions before making a payment online. \u00a0If you have any doubt when booking accommodation please come to the Advice Centre and an Advisor can talk you through how to spot fraud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If you are worried you may have made a payment to a fraudulent account please come and see us at the Centre or visit the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<strong>Action Fraud webpage<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>for further details.<\/p>\n<p>Follow<a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/support-and-prevention\/protect-yourself-from-fraud\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<strong>this link<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to find out how to protect yourself from fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Advice Centre at Sheffield Hallam has been made aware of email fraud linked to the Air BnB accommodation booking website.\u00a0 Please be aware when using this website that payments are made\u00a0through the site and not via a bank transfer.\u00a0 Students are receiving emails from fake Air BnB accounts asking for payments to be made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/air-bnb-email-fraud\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air BnB Email Fraud<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[59,13],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scam-alert","category-support","tag-monday-20-july-2015"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RiUv-xK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}