"Essentially, scammers use details about a booking you've placed (perhaps with a hotel or airline) to trick you into sending money somewhere you shouldn't."
"The scammers will try to pull together as much information as they can on you and your booking. Sometimes they'll target employees of the place you've got the reservation with in order to get access to their systems, and other times they may take advantage of a wider data breach (as with the recent Booking.com hack"
Reservation hijacking is a scam where scammers use information from a booking to convince a victim to send money to an incorrect destination. Scammers contact victims claiming to be from a hotel, airline, or car rental company tied to the reservation. They gather details about the trip and the victim, including dates, phone number, and email address, to make the impersonation seem credible. A Booking.com data breach increased the risk because names, email addresses, phone numbers, and booking details were leaked, even though no financial information was exposed. Affected customers were emailed about heightened scam risk. Reducing risk relies on the same security habits used for other scams and on recognizing reservation hijacking as a potential threat.
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