Nothing to do with me thank God. 
Maybe @billybutcher could disable all the links?
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Iâm off at conference again with just my phone.
If people wish to edit their own posts to stop the auto linkification put a backlash before the dot - so type booking\.com
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Thank you Billy. That worked a treat.
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Given this and something Toryroo mentioned yesterday about people booking a phantom property, itâs worth checking your address/es from time to time to see whatâs online. I have a particular reason for saying this that I hope will be a rare occurence.
We couldnât understand why holidaymakers kept turning up at our house, usually on a Saturday afternoon, saying they had rented our apartment. As we donât have a rental apartment this was obviously a misunderstanding, they rang the owner and I watched her take them to an apartment block behind us.
I confronted this woman when some men tried to deliver a fridge and some flatpack furniture to us and she said that as her apartment was hard to find in a large lotissement, she had used our address as the rdv point. I told her there are other landmarks and to stop using us.
It was only on about the sixth occasion, a year later, when some very confused Germans turned up that I saw the Booking.\com paperwork, so I could ring this person and let her know her tenants had come to us. I took photos of the two pages and realised that it had our address as the property! Then I went online and it was all over the place on other websites, our address but her photos.
I spent the rest of the weekend trying to get past the bots on the system and fuming because it got nowhere. In the end I wrote to the CEO in Amsterdam using Misrepresentation in the email title. Reading between the lines, they told her to change her entry or got the right address and changed it for her the day they got my email.
Being paranoid myself, i also went to see the mairie and happened across their holiday rentals man. I explained that I was worried they would think we hadnât registered a rental or that they would expect us to collect taxe de sĂ©jour. I also didnât want the tax people on our case for rent that we never received.
It went away fairly quickly once the sites linked to Booking found the updated information, but I still google our address from time to time to make sure we arenât listed anywhere.
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Thanks billybutcher. Edited my post using your suggestion re booking/.com.
I always check Trivago and Hotelscombined first. Iâve lately usually ended up using Hotels/.com. They usually offer more per cent on the cashback sites too.
I use Tourist offices who verify the place is legit, and go direct.
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I think your device may be compromised.
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And follow the instructions
They also do an android/apple version.
Every conversation is monetized AI bots read entire scripts from your private conversation they pull out any buying events political hot potatoes or leanings etc etc The matrix is running.. Only now is it dawning on us?? Digital I.D anyhone? Its like Turkeys voting for Xmas.. Tony Blairs is the driving force .. Good old Tony
The Bookingdot com website was hacked a few days ago and tens of thousands have received the same message that you were sent. Not a coincidence, not you being spied on. I donât use Bookingdot com because it advertises illegally stolen homes in the Occupied West Bank as holiday lets. Just find the hotel you like the look of on the site then book directly with that hotel, itâs often cheaper that way and with more room choices.
Thanks. I suspected it had been hacked.
^ This.