Vacation and Travel Scams are one of the latest scams, where in the scammers offer free or deeply discounted travel deals that is never real. And in some cases, they may also provide vacation certificates with the goal of selling a specific product or service, which covers only a small portion of a vacation, for example lodging in a hotel or timeshare resort for only a certain number of days and nights. The other fake offers they may provide include: airfare or a cruise or one complimentary ticket with the purchase of a second etc. After this, if you give positive response to this, they may ask you to purchase or attend a sales presentation for which the company may demand a non-refundable processing fee or a deposit of 50$ to100$ to book the vacation offer in your name. And finally, if you pay this, you land up loosing your hard earn money.
There are some very common and popular vacation scams including :
: According to their own press Global Travel International is a 9 year-old licensed, bonded and accredited travel agency, and is endorsed by the world's major airlines, hotel and travel suppliers. As it also operates MML business, people who misunderstand this scheme land up claiming it a scam.
: Over the time, Timeshare Resale has spread quite rapidly in all over the world. But the most unfortunate thing that has occurred along with its popularity is many scammers have created various timeshare schemes to scam innocent people for the sake of easy money that has resulted into the great rise in timeshare related crimes.
