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Fake Hotel Booking Sites Stirring Up Turmoil for Travelers
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“We’ve had complaints from people who booked with these sites and had trouble canceling or modifying these reservations or they were charged booking fees that they didn’t expect,” said FTC attorney Serena Viswanathan. “And some of these are scams where they don’t even have rooms.”
This is not a new problem. But it’s getting renewed attention after Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
wrote a letter to the FTC in May asking it to investigate. This was followed by a similar request last month from
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