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Fraud Detection

1 story · First covered Apr 5, 2026 · Latest 4d ago
Fraud Detection Coverage
80% of Hotels Said Yes to Booking Trafficked Children. Your Front Desk Is the Last Line of Defense.

80% of Hotels Said Yes to Booking Trafficked Children. Your Front Desk Is the Last Line of Defense.

A short seller sent fake booking requests for underage girls from war-torn Ukraine to 249 Accor-branded hotels, and 45 out of 56 that responded agreed to take the reservation. The technology question nobody's asking is whether any hotel PMS on the market today could have flagged those emails before a human said yes.