Park City At a Glance TM Winter Vacation Planner, 2023 |
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Whether visiting for business or pleasure, our free city guides and travel planners offer a helpful way to navigate Park City with things to do, places to stay, events, transportation, restaurants, money-saving coupons, discounts and so much more. Vacation Scams Can Cost You Any Time Of Year Park City At A Glance, our official online edition - Celebrating our 25th year! Whether it's your first Park City Vacation or you visit every year, we'll continue to provide the planning tools to help your Utah Vacation be stress free and an unforgettable experience. Vacation Scams Can Cost You Any Time Of Year. Warning Signs are featured on this page of our 2023 Travel Planner. Watch for the Warning Signs of Travel Fraud Published: January 5th 2017. Updated January 2nd 2023. Just because summer is over doesn't mean you can let your guard down when it comes to vacation scams. Whether it's the sale of bogus time shares or vacation clubs, prize-related vacation fraud, or anything else, don't be sucked in by the promise of free or low-cost holiday trips. Unless you heed the warning signs, you could end up wasting your money. One scam that's been circulating recently is the posting of bogus vacation home rental ads, including photos of real homes, on Craigslist and other online classified advertising sites. Those who respond are asked to pay a deposit, only to find out later that the advertised property doesn't exist, has been misrepresented, or isn't available for rent. That's just one of the fraudulent practices the National Consumers League mentions in its list of vacation and travel scams. For more examples of common financial ripoffs, read "Beware of These Scams." Recently, consumer officials in Hawaii, Maine, and other states also posted a list of six signs that a phone call, text, email, letter, or in-person offer is actually a travel scam. Someone contacts you unexpectedly. You get a "robocall" from someone using an automatic dialer, a common and illegal method scammers employ. You're told you've won a free vacation or air travel but that you have to first pay some fees. You're asked for your credit card number "just for verification" or to pay taxes or port fees. You can't get specifics on the promised travel arrangements. You're pressed into signing up right away for a travel club or any other travel-related service or you'll lose the opportunity. Last year, we wrote about the dangers of vacation clubs, citing many online complaints and a lawsuit New Jersey filed against a company that it said collected hundreds or thousands of dollars in membership fees and then failed to deliver the deep discounts, vacation accommodations, and other travel services it had promised. How Scammers Rent Out Occupied Houses Permission ABC News When the owners of an Indiana home recently listed it for sale, they got an unexpected surprise: a rental scam targeting their address. "People were getting out of their cars. They were coming up to our front door, ringing our doorbell, looking into our windows," homeowner Amy Hagans told ABC News after an ABC News reporter noticed a story about her plight that originally appeared in The Star Press. The people were responding to a Craigs List post advertising a three-bedroom, two-bath house, with a big backyard that was available to rent for just $750 a month. "I fell in love with the house. The yard was humongous," said Patty Costa, who came to see the house in Muncie, Indiana. Costa said the home was "perfect" for her grandchildren. After exchanging texts with the person who posted the ad, she wired the person a $275 deposit and then came to see the house herself. When Costa approached the home, she learned that the deal was too good to be true. The Hagans' had posted a sign saying, "Our house is not for rent" to alert people to the scam. "I opened the door to see a lady standing on my porch, reading the sign on our front door," Hagans said. "I felt terrible about the whole situation." It's a scam being played out in housing markets across the country. "It's very, very simple to do these types of Internet scams. It's very easy to hijack an existing listing," said Austin Berglas, the head of U.S. Cyber Investigations for K2 Intelligence, an investigative consulting firm. The process is called "scraping." Scammers create fraudulent rental listings using photos and details from legitimate postings already online. In the Hagans' case, the scammer may have used images from the real estate company's website where the Hagans' had posted their home for sale. According to the FBI, scams like these cost Americans nearly $20 million in 2019. And the bureau estimates the actual number of cases could be 10 times higher because many aren't reported. These types of scenarios also exist in the vacation rental market. When Cherry McCaffrey used a rental website to book a vacation house in South Lake Tahoe for her extended family, they found the door unlocked when they arrived. After they settled in, the owner showed up, not knowing his house had been rented out. Experts say there are ways renters can protect themselves. First, never wire money. Second, try a "reverse image search" for the listing photos on a site like Google. If images from that listing appear on multiple websites, renter beware. Lastly, use common sense. Scammers will not join our membership ranks. They do not want to be found out. They want to stay under the radar. "I think the best tip, is really, if it looks too good to be true, it most likely is," Berglas said. 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Over 200 miles of groomed snowmobile trails and access to over 400,000 acres of mountain terrain are filled with deer, our wintering bald eagles, and other wildlife. It's truly God's country up here. Grab your friends and family and have some fun this year! 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