Brits have been warned to look out for travel scams as fraudsters exploit passport delays. According to the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI), scammers are using sophisticated methods to trick travellers into paying for holidays and services which don’t exist.
Some of the bogus travel deals include ““entirely fabricated” social media ads featuring attractive pictures of holiday cottages and hotels accompanied by “too good to be true” prices. The CTSI warned that by the time holidaymakers realised that the adverts were fake, the scammers had already taken their money.
Often scammers told their victims to pay by cash, via bank transfer or through services such as Western Union. This would mean the payments would be difficult to trace and non-refundable.
