This must be a scam but wtf kind of scam is this - booking.com listing

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https://www.booking.com/hotel/gb/rajaas-nice-home.en-gb.html?aid=1259717&label=metahometogo-link-metagb-hotel-12743956_xqdz-ad26f54a0cefef94fe88f4621cfe5d5f_dev-dsk_los-7_ver-vr_br-h2g&sid=37f07be5395f084732689973e1f20d6c&all_sr_blocks=1274395601_400252570_2_0_0&checkin=2025-07-14&checkout=2025-07-21&dest_id=-2601889&dest_type=city&dist=0&group_adults=2&group_children=0&hapos=1&highlighted_blocks=1274395601_400252570_2_0_0&hpos=1&matching_block_id=1274395601_400252570_2_0_0&no_rooms=1&req_adults=2&req_children=0&room1=A%2CA&sb_price_type=total&sr_order=popularity&sr_pri_blocks=1274395601_400252570_2_0_0__134435&srepoch=1739444491&srpvid=52524d838fe9051b&type=total&ucfs=1&

Sorry for the massive link! I am looking for a place to rent whilst working in LDN next week and stumbled upon this interesting offer..... Booking.com has quite a lot of scams, I know, but wtf is this? 😂

If I had more money than sense I'd be tempted to book it and turn up just to see what's occurring!

That's what my place will look like when I've decluttered.

It is clearly a cover for a safe house.
Yes I read too many detective and spy stories.

Seems like an easy way to engage in money laundering.

@OuchyEars I thought that too! 😆

Ooooooh.

Someone needs to write the novel. All about how a harmless bit of chat on the internet led to a bunch of middle aged mums outing an international spy ring based in Brent Cross.

That is hilarious 🤣 thanks for sharing. I’m dying to know who set it up. Also made me very dubious about using booking.com they obviously let anyone post without proper checks!?!

It's reassuring that Booking vets its accommodation offerings!

Rajaas nice house really isn't very nice.

Blimey. If that's Rajaa's nice house I'd hate to see their horrible one!

So the booking.com version of the takeaway that never has any customers?

Money laundering scam. They put up a property no one will ever book, get friend/Associates to make bookings. Mark as paid in cash...et voila, legitimate funds obtained.

You can just delete everything after and including the question mark.

Yes, but that just gets you to the front page of Booking dot com, which would not be very useful for illustrating the OP's point. 🙏

No it doesn't. It takes me directly to Raaja's Nice Home.

Someone's put it on as a joke or their shaming their teen son or brother.🤣🤣🤣

Oh my. And of course booking won't be liable because they're just an aggregate site.

The internet really is mostly garbage isn't it. Bullshit, crime and porn.

That's not my a nice house, it's rooms are too tidy.

Prince William is doing holiday rentals now!

Haven't we already had a thread about the hectic kitchen today?

This was the first thing I thought of too 😂

I'd say a joke rather than a scam?! Surely the idea of a scam is to represent an appealing looking property that either doesn't exist or fails to meet expectations. With this one you'd probably be relieved if it turned out to be a tent next to the M40.

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Thanks @BaMamma :)

So the booking.com version of the takeaway that never has any customers?

Or the Barbers shop that never has any customers but the owner drives a brand new Range Rover....

....( like the one near me )