‘Travelers are getting better at spotting obvious scams' — but experts warn Airbnb scams are on the rise as summer arrives
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As scammers pivot to hijacked verified accounts and more subtle social engineering, trust signals like badges and reviews are losing reliability. Any platform with user-to-user transactions should assume its current trust UX is a temporary advantage and invest in back-end anomaly detection and identity verification now.
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