There's tons of fraud on AirBNB (and increasingly VRBO). We've rentals on both service in the past year try to redirect us to 2nd locations or get us to pay 'da

There's tons of fraud on AirBNB (and increasingly VRBO). We've rentals on both service in the past year try to redirect us to 2nd locations or get us to pay 'damage deposits' on shady third party websites. AirBNB's customer support immediately said 'definitely sounds like a scam' when we reported it, then held our $6k for a month. My wife had to threaten to sue to get them to release it. At no point during that month did AirBNB take down the fraudulent listing (even while the reviews piled up saying that they were redirected to a run down loft instead of the nice house they had rented). VRBO refunded our money in a couple of days when we reported a host trying to get us to pay on a third party site.