HomeAway SMS Text message

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Essar
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HomeAway SMS Text message

Post by Essar »

Please be aware that there is an SMS text being sent to hosts advising that your HA account has been deactivated. To reactivate it you have to follow a link on bit.ly - this leads to a dummy HA login page (paulblog.eu/home). Delete the message and do not follow the link.
HA have been advised and they have put a notice on their help pages.
"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note"
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Chippy
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Post by Chippy »

Just a reminder that this is still doing the rounds

We received a version today from sender "Abriitel"
advising that all HA accounts have been deactivated.

A bit.ly link was provided to reactivate, the text message contained several minor typos, easy to overlook if you are in a hurry.
We don't subscribe directly to Abritel

Could not find mention of this scam on the Homeaway site and the phishing link on HA returned a 404 error
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Post by Casscat »

I've just received this now purporting to be from HomeAway. The text was in perfect Spanish. I am going to attempt to report it in spite of the fact that HA probably could not be less interested :roll: I think quite a lot of advertisers will fall for this.
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Post by Casscat »

I've reported it to OD but just got a 20 minute stream of drivel.
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Post by Sanchisimo »

I've just tried to log on to Holiday Lettings and it came up with: Your account has been suspended both when I tried to log on on our laptop and then again with my kindle fire. No links fortunately but on calling them (after eventually tracking down a number) they said there was nothing wrong.

All fine now, but worrying if it is related in some way.
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Post by Casscat »

The SMS scam seems to be directed at the HomeAway family of sites. If you have not clicked a suspect link there is probably a reasonable explanation for the lockout.
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