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Online Holiday Scam Cons Thousands

Saturday 19 August 2006

Fake holiday web sites have conned around 3,000 holidaymakers into paying for holidays that did not exist.

Scammers set up a group of fake travel web sites offering cheap deals, and then quickly closed them.

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The thousands of users who booked holidays with these sites have now lost their money, unless they paid by credit card.

UK holidaymakers are being urged to check that a site is a member of the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) or affiliated to other organisations like Air Travel Organisers' Licensing.

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