Airbnb - 'Olena' trying to set up account using our email
Airbnb - 'Olena' trying to set up account using our email
We have received an email from a genuine Airbnb email address (ie not a fake site) asking to confirm a new account - using our business email address. We are now checking that our email address hasn't been hacked as why would someone try to do this. We have reported to airbnb.
Anyone else has this experience?
Anyone else has this experience?
Re: Airbnb - 'Olena' trying to set up account using our emai
Yes fairly frequently but not with airbnb (yet)Sunbeam wrote:We have received an email from a genuine Airbnb email address (ie not a fake site) asking to confirm a new account - using our business email address. We are now checking that our email address hasn't been hacked as why would someone try to do this. We have reported to airbnb.
Anyone else has this experience?
I have a couple of .com domains and I often get signed up for things by employees of a company which has the same domain name but a .ca extension. I've even had directors sending me their board meeting minutes as one of the has used the .com address.
Last one was an attempt to set up a Linked In profile - you'd think they'd know their own email address. Most annoying was the accidental registration by them of my domain to the google docs service.
There was also the case where the idiot web designer set up a web page with a dummy admin email - unfortunately he picked my domain so I got the lot! I could have wreaked havoc with his clients e-commerce but luckily for him I'm not that sort of person
We do have an Airbnb listing - but use a different email address. We set the listing up before we got our own domain. So this request to confirm a new listing is from our business domain email - which we don't advertise on our website (we have an enquiry form). I wonder if email addresses have been found in some kind of hack from a listing site (which we link to our business email).
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I am one of those who received the request to confirm my email address and posted on Airbnb's FB page. I couldn't use phone number they gave me since I am not listed with Airbnb so I had to open a Twitter account in order to them send them a direct message. Their response via Twitter DM was first to ask for my email address, which I gave them, and second to say that " we've removed the account at this time. If you wish to open an account with us in the future, you will still be ......"mmg wrote:Just looked at the airbnb facebook page and three people have reported the same issue, emails sent asking people to confirm email address in order to make their listing live. None of them have set up listings.
The sentence was unfinished and so is my concern. I still don't know if someone tried to open an ABB account using my email address or if this was a marketing ploy. I plan to send them another Twitter DM but what are the odds of getting a straight answer?
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We forwarded the email to report.phishing@airbnb.com - an email address we found on the airbnb website. We didn't want to send via Twitter to Facebook - preferring to deal directly with their website.
Thanks for this Sunbeam. I was really struggling to work out how to send Airbnb the e-mail via Twitter.Sunbeam wrote:We forwarded the email to report.phishing@airbnb.com - an email address we found on the airbnb website. We didn't want to send via Twitter to Facebook - preferring to deal directly with their website.
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Our ABB account was hacked twice this year in quick succession, the second time even after we changed the password. We only managed to stop them the second time by changing our registered email address as well.
From what we have read on other forums, there seem to be other owners who have had their ABB accounts compromised. Don't believe that ABB system is as secure as they make it out to be. They seem to put the blame on owners clicking links in phishing emails or having keyboard loggers on their PCs....
From what we have read on other forums, there seem to be other owners who have had their ABB accounts compromised. Don't believe that ABB system is as secure as they make it out to be. They seem to put the blame on owners clicking links in phishing emails or having keyboard loggers on their PCs....