Beware, here be scammers !

[emfrat]

A couple of days ago I used booking .com to organise accommodation for a visit to Omaka 2025. That seemed OK.
Today I am getting spam from some mob calling themselves RentalCover claiming to have created insurance cover on my behalf, to protect the rental.
They are undoubtedly scammers, despite pretending to be associated with Booking. com
Have nothing to do with them.

[Charl]

I'm sad to report that Booking.com itself falls into that category these days.
Friends fought them for over 6 months to get a refund on accommodation they screwed up.

[emfrat]

Charl, a few years back a booking through them was quite casually cancelled, a week or so before my flight. I would rather not deal with them at all.
Maybe I should have done what I do with Abebooks - use their search facility but contact the seller direct for a price. I once bought a book for a young niece. By the time Visa had charged for the book, the postage and the currency conversions as individual purchases, rather than including it all as one transaction, the various fees were twice the cost of the book . Bloody robbers.