People Are Sharing Their Horrible Airbnb Experiences After A Woman Shared Hers, And Here Are 30 Of Them

Being a victim of any scam can be horrifying.

Maryjane

• Published in Interesting
• April 8, 2022

Being a victim of any scam can be horrifying. How would you react if someone showed up at your apartment, with all boldness, saying they rented your apartment on Airbnb?

And you never had any intention of renting it out. Definitely, it would be weird and horrifying.

This is exactly the situation that a doctor at the Stanford Department of Medicine in California might have found herself in if she hadn't discovered her own house on Airbnb. Unfortunately, it is one of several Airbnb horror stories that have recently rippled on Twitter.

When the woman reached out to the scammers, they had the audacity to ask if she wanted to lease out the place where she lives with her family. Surprisingly, bringing the case to the customer care unit of Airbnb wasn’t helpful at first.

This proved that the Airbnb customer care service wasn’t up to standard. It also suggests that the managers of Airbnb are unable to monitor what transpires within it and points to loopholes that scammers have figured out how to take advantage of.

She narrated the horror on Twitter while looking for some support. And it appeared that such incidents are common, as many people responded with similar horror stories.

Hundreds of others have responded with their own bizarre Airbnb stories since the post. Here are just 30 of the worst ones for you to read through.

People online trooped in to drop their own horror story and here are some of them:

#1 You can imagine the audacity

#2 Trying to extort $700 from us for a couch

#3 They refused to accept my service dog

#4 Someone is scamming them like they're scamming you

#5 Needing better customer service and security protocols

#6 Someone fraudulently listed the home I booked

#7 My house shows up as a long term rental

#8 Posted an honest review and it was censored

#9 Rented their newly bought house and it foreclosed

#10 It happened to me too

#11 Such a sick thing to do

#12 Hijacking pictures of a house on sale

#13 It's good they caught it

#14 Might still be existing

#15 Booked a rental but it was a scam

#16 The Airbnb issues never ends

#17 Is this the new Nigerian scam?

#18 Me! I didn't get a full refund

#19 Some poor family just got scammed

#20 Airbnb made my life miserable

#21 And a lot of more people will see this

#22 Driving everyone crazy with their constant reports to code enforcement

#23 My own Airbnb story

#24 Thank you for helping

#25 This has happened to me once

#26 Parroting a strange policy that absolved the company

#27 It's between you and your renter

#28 The worst scam ever

#29 We all should check our houses

#30 Imagine someone entering your home without permission

Wherever there are opportunities and loopholes to make money, be it on the internet or offline, people will want to exploit and cash out of them. In fact, some scammers are on the lookout for such opportunities to pounce on them, so we ought to be careful of them.

Have any experience related to this? Do share your thoughts in the comments below.

Maryjane