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It's 2023 and my credit card is left wide open to fraud and booking.com facilitates this. I presume when you choose "pay at the hotel" and have to enter your fu
by deanc 3y ago
It's 2023 and my credit card is left wide open to fraud and booking.com facilitates this. I presume when you choose "pay at the hotel" and have to enter your full details including CVC, this is in order for the hotel to charge you in the case you decide to not pay. But in that case booking.com should handle the dispute, as opposed to introducing another compromise vector for any attacker. I've literally seen my details printed on paper at a small hotel in Tyrol. God knows what security they are running at the front-desks at these places.
- jacquesm 3y agoThat flaw is inherent in credit cards and you as the user have a dispute process at your disposal for charges that you don't want to be on the hook for. The CVC is just slightly less problematic than the rest of the card data. And that small hotel in Tyrol is probably ok, but I had my card cloned within minutes of eating at a restaurant in Toronto. The whole concept of a bunch of numbers that allow for arbitrary charges against you is flawed. Booking.com doesn't facilitate fraud any more than your credit card company does, and so far I've been able to successfully dispute every charge that I did not agree with on my card. The day that changes I'll stop using them entirely.