The Better Business Bureau has issued a warning about vacation property rental houses after a consumer was robbed of $1830 online while trying to rent a vacation home. The consumer found a
property on VRBO.com and then wrote to the host to rent the property. The would-be host emailed the potential rented a contract and had him wire money into a bank account to prepay the rental fee.
Instead of a confirmation email, he found out that VRBO.com had been hacked and that any activity off of the site should be reported.
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