Travellers need to pay more attention when booking hotels online, police have warned.
Three Thai nationals have been arrested for allegedly defrauding international tourists out of thousands of dollars using a fake hotel booking scheme.
Three suspects scammed more than $21,000 from customers by creating fake Facebook and web addresses and fleecing unwary tourists.
The alleged fraudsters set up fake Facebook pages for well-known Pattaya area hotels, taking bookings and payments.
Officers from Thailand’s Tourist Police Bureau made arrests at three locations across Thailand.
The three suspects had no ties at all to the hotels they sold rooms at, news portal Travel Mole reported.
Travellers tried to check in at the hotels for which they had booked and found the properties had no record of the,
Thai Police issued a warning to travellers to fully verify hotel pages on social media before parting with their details.
“These suspects lured tourists using Facebook pages that mimicked popular Pattaya hotels," Thai Police said.
"They offered fake promotions to convince victims to transfer money for non-existent bookings.”
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