Uninvited contact

[Margaret16]

Air BnB have started writing to me at my work address seeking information about travel arrangements for staff and students.

Three emails were received despite my initial response indicating that I did not want to mix my professional life with my private life and am not at liberty to release any such information.

I am shocked by this uninvited  intrusion from the person below who I suspect is a fraud using an AirBnB logo.

Ryan ***
Business Travel
UK & Ireland
[phone number removed]

[Linda108 · Accepted solution]

@Margaret16 Air BNB can only contact you via email at the address you have provided for your listing.  If your profile does not have your office email, I would suggest you contact Air BNB as soon as possible about this hacking.  

[Margaret16]

Thanks Linda

[City-Limits-Ranch0]

Flag the account, mark the emails as spam and don't reply to them.  It is probably a computer algorithm, not a personal invasion of your personal space.  I don't think AirBnb corporate is involved.  Anytime you go on the internet you open yourself to having your different email accounts and identities linked by various computer bots that are trying to 'get in.' 

For example, Facebook figured out where I went to High School and put that in my profile.  Then it figured out where I went to my post-graduate institution and put that in.  It continues to ask me to fill in what I studied there, even though the name of the curriculum appears in the name of the school.  The computer can't use the simple logic of 'that was the type of school, must have been what was studied.'  Duh.

[Sandra126]

@City-Limits-Ranch0, wow. That is crazy. I have never joined Facebook and never want to, yet I believe there is a profile for me on there as someone I once knew emailed me saying ''tried to contact you on FB but you don't seem very active on your profile.'' Too right I am not, I am not there at all (and still, I somehow am?).

Can't believe it, Facebook filled in your profile. Wow again.

[Helen3]

I doubt BnB would be calling you from a mobile. Sounds extremely dubious. I would give them a call on the customer services number and see if someone might have hacked your account.

Good luck.

[Dawn33]

Did you by chance give them your work address for the work travel credit?

I keep getting that offer and continue to think "no thanks!"