HotelsCombined Reviews 389

they help me get out of my vacacional membership

Complete scam. The rates shown are not available, the hotel room they show are not available, when clicking on the link it diverts to a FAKE version of the associated booking platform. E.g - I manually looked at about ten hotels in a destination on Expedia logged into my UK account. Checking on each hotel none were available all sold out on Expedia directly. They all show as available on HC with what appears to be a fake link to Expedia that lands on a 'US page' suggesting availability. The rates where showing at a fraction of the price as elsewhere and whilst I understand it varies, having stayed in over 400 accommodations in 52 countries I'm well versed enough to smell a rat.

This platform are scammers. Don't believe in them because you will loose all the deposits you make. In. case you arrive at the end of the tasks (covering with many money), they will froze your account and ask you deposit another 8000 USDC for change to the VIP4 for recover your money. Don't believe them if you do it you will also loose the 8000 USDC. I hope the can change the money they stole me in medicines.

Get rich quick scam. This is how they operate:
You are getting contacted on WhatsApp by a recruiter with an Indian number who falsely claims to be from a reputable local in this case European headhunting7 staffing company. They offer a full-time/part-time position. Once you confirm your interest, the hiring manager contacts you by WhatsApp and explains that the role involves Search Engine Optimization to enhance the visibility of certain hotels on booking platforms by leaving customer reviews. No phone interview/ all communication via chat. The hiring manager conducts "training" by providing access to a platform where you select pre-written reviews that are supposedly posted.
The interesting part is that there is money involved (without obvious reasons) and it is more set up like a casino, while you cannot win.
This is how it works:
You get an initial balance so you can start providing the "reviews". They assign a batch of 40 reviews to you. Once you start it, you cannot stop or cancel. Before you submit a review, it shows you a room rate, for example, USD 95. You submit the review, and you get 0,5% (USD 0,48) of this amount added to your balance. Once in a while, you get "lucky" because you get a combo. This means you get 6%, but the room rate is not USD 95, but 395. So your balance becomes negative and you cannot proceed. They are asking you to top off the balance, so it becomes at least 0 so you can proceed. The first time, you are adding just a few USD, but this is when they try to hook you. The room rates depend on your balance. so whenever you are starting a batch you have an exponential rate increase. Every time you complete a batch, you need to contact customer service to "reset" you account. You think that you keep it low key and start with a minimum balance that they gave you firsthand. Customer Service gives you the already your "salary" of e.g. USD 599 for 2 days of work when they reset you and there is no way you can cash this out before starting your batch. Within a few minutes, you run into exorbitant negative balances. So you need to add thousands of USD tho get your money back. And even then you can be sure you get lucky with a combo on the 39th task.
As the other reviewer said, they try to engage you with a WhatsApp group where everyone shares screenshots of all the money they made and that there is a limited-time offer to get extra bonuses as the company celebrates its birthday.
This is from the scammer's best-practice handbook.
The company is called Stratify Limited and they pretend to be working for or with hotelscombined. You will find the scammer at stratifylimited.

Well-organized scammer group. Their logic seems to earn the money. But they steal the money from user. They removed my account and my contact on what'sapp group channel. I lost my money.
I investigated their wallet address and group users. They are writing the fake chats on group. Please don't believe it. All scammers. Please don't use this site. Terrible.

Guys, please please please, this is a scam, don’t fall for this, this happened to me today, I was too blinded by the amount I was gonna get, please delete those people number right now..,

ITS A SCAM FRAUD SYSTEM!
I have been contacted by one of the web I filled my details for part time side income.. 1st day was a smooth one earn about 30-40$ . 2nd day which is today everything was told as per day 1 mission similar and when going to end last task they will ask me to top up amount the amount to get withdrawal and they will have alot of excuses to bring up to you on the amount today I have wasted $4-5 thousand ...all wasted to the scammers ~ pls beware ..

I join help a girl out get 350 in bonus when i went first round had to pay $40 but second round got hit 4 times last time was a $2800 fee.I had $6000 stolen still need to pay another$775 they said pay it finish 9 more.This company one of the most evil when caught should be locked up for 20 years.

Big scam, don`t trust them
They blocked my account for fake reason "bot traffic" even though I send proofs of my google and facebook ads, they never cared and blocked my account and I never got my money!!!!

I am writing in regards to Orbitz rate and hotelcombined rating scam. My account with them is in negative and they asking me to top up by £2400 in order to complete premium task and withdraw my monies. They have changed platform to
priceline-online.com, I don't know if I can trust them to deposit £2500 in order to withdraw my monies altogether, can anyone help me with this ?

In the beginning it was fine Rating Hotels and withdrawing commissions , then as went on and started loading more to rate, the figures started going UP and being in negative you had to put that amount to match it in order to withdraw & now I have no contact from anyone and both sites are inactive. I have reported to Wise on transactions as have had no response from Action Fraud since Nov! If anyone has another way of retrieving funds please let me know

This is a very intricate and impressive scam, it seems as if you get commissions for rating hotels online, but you have to top up your account in order to continue rating.

From what I understand, on day 3-4 you will encounter premium hotels which will put your account in negative in order to review them, meaning you will need to keep on spending your own money by topping up your account in order to continue rating hotels, which inevitably leads you to becoming negative.

Luckily this is my first day of the scam & I have withdrawn my initial £50 deposit followed by the commission I earned for the first day of reviews.

I believe this scam was first impersonating HotelsCombined and now they are impersonating Orbitz.

I am still in the “Orbitz” telegram group right now, I have confronted them but they are all denying it and telling me to “believe what I want to believe”.

Is there anyone who has been scammed by these same people and want to speak about it?

Dear all,

if you have been scammed through hotels combined about the hotel tasks reviews please contact action fraud and refundee. It will make our case really strong. I lost £10k because of this scam. It has been the worst experience of my life. I have contacted wise and binance and my own banks all of which have been useless. Please note they are now operating as orbitz.com and have removed me from the group and deleted my account and my agent has also deleted my telegram account. If any of you are still on the customer service i advise you to take screenshots of every single conversation you have had with them. If you do not then it will be lost once they remove you from the telegram accounts.

My experience is really bad i started on 20th October 2022, have 4289.53 with them and they have deleted me on every platform. They ask to to deposit 3700 before I can withdraw and I said no I don't have such fund now. I deposited 1000 because my agent said I can withdraw if I did. The customer service said I need another 1000 because am on negative 11000 plus, so with the 2000 the company will pay the rest and when the time to to withdraw they will withdraw there fund and I will get my. After which the customer service said have been declined of the funds so I need to find 3700 pounds before I can withdraw. So now the agent message me on the 5th of December and I replied on the six only to see that I have been deleted.

i connected to independent agent and refundee and CEL but thet dont accept my case because it was under 3000 pounds .
i reported to binance, and fraud action,but i dont know binance will doing any thing or not.
actually i am looking for a lawer to do this

The scam thing happened to me too. I hit a premium hotel on my second day and my account went into a negative of £227 stupidly I paid this but then 5 reviews later I hit another premium and went into £727 negative. I’m glad I didn’t have this money to hand and quickly realised it was a scam.
I contacted WISE and luckily I have managed to recover 50% of my funds, they are currently trying to recover the remainder. I also reported this to action fraud as WISE needed a copy of a police report.

Nicholas dear.. Pls elaborate how you got your money back. How many days after you Paid the Platform.. either USDT or WISE.. after how many days.. you got back? I got back 3 days after my last payment and I got refunded even the initial £50 deposit. I did it on my own.. Threatening WISE..
Dear ARASH Faramazi Pls join the group catch and there are few more victims where.. and special request to Nicholas .. as Your service will be very theraputic to those women who lost.. they are shattered and depressed.. Pls Help them

There is another forum Run by " Scam Watcher" and have several VIctims Like us.. pls go to the Blog and . know one and help one another.. I cant past a link Here but go to google and type Hotelscombined.com I Investment scam I 11 comments and it will take you to the blog run by Scam Watcher.. there are plenty of victims.. there

Arash I can tell you what I did
I contacted two independent agencies Refundee and CEL Solicitors and signed contracts no win no fee to get money back
I would say give them a call
I must clarify I did not get anything back yet, but letters have been sent to the banks involved and we are waiting for their response
If they respond negatively or ignore, the agencies will take the matter to the Financial Ombusdman Service who will decide

Nicolas, did they block your account after you deopsit the £50? what happened pls let me know..

Question for the two people who left reviews below.

Did you get a response?

I'm getting the same messages on Telegram all the time.