There isn't any point in reporting it to Airbnb because it has nothing to do with them- these are just online scammers like if someone sent you an email saying you won a million dollars and all you have to do to receive it is send $500 for administration costs.
What these scammers do is they steal photos of a house from real estate sites, then they create these fake websites- they're quite clever and unless you know what a Airbnb URL looks like, it looks almost the same as a Airbnb listing. But the giveaway is that they tell you some story about how they live out of the country, they bought the place for their son or daughter who doesn't need it anymore, etc. etc. Then they tell you how they'll do the first month through Airbnb, you just have to send a deposit, how they'll arrange the booking (that's not how you book an Airbnb- you do that yourself) how an agent will give you keys and show you the place, yadda yadda.
A real host would simply direct you to their listing by giving you the URL and you'd do all the booking through Airbnb yourself. They won't tell you their life story, ask you to email copies of your passport and the rest of your ID, tell you that you can preview the place, or any of that.
Where you should report it to is the site where you originally found the ad.
@Lisa5753
