{"id":418598,"date":"2026-07-30T22:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T22:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418598\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T22:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T22:26:17","slug":"imposter-websites-scammed-tourists-booking-hotels-lawsuit-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418598\/","title":{"rendered":"Imposter Websites Scammed Tourists Booking Hotels, Lawsuit Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Others realize the issue when they look closely at their confirmation emails and see they were not sent by the hotel at all,” city officials said. <\/p>\n

There have been over 1,800 nationwide consumer complaints against GuestReservations.com and BookOnline.com, reported to The Better Business Bureau, according to Chiu. <\/p>\n

BookOnline.com has the lowest BBB rating of the two, with an “F.” <\/p>\n

“Scams like this don’t just drain a traveler’s wallet, they wear away the trust San Franciscans place in the people and institutions meant to serve them,” Jos\u00e9 Cisneros, the city’s treasurer, said. “The City Attorney’s lawsuit sends a clear message to bad actors targeting our residents, businesses, and tourists: San Francisco is fighting back.”<\/p>\n

San Francisco launched a portal earlier this year called “StopScams SF<\/a>” to protect consumers against these schemes, Cisneros said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Others realize the issue when they look closely at their confirmation emails and see they were not sent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-418598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}