Working with Booking.com as an affiliate over the years I have experienced so many broken things and a sheer indifference / ignorance from the company.
For instance, their referral program was long abused by scammers who would place a hotel booking using stolen credit card and then claim 5% cashback via numerous online cashback services. Book a €5000 resort stay using someone's else card and get €250 out of it almost risk free. Fraudsters with the IP addresses from Palestine were happily exploiting this and Booking's anti-fraud systems were largely non-existent..
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this type of service. Just so I understand the scam right, it sounds like in the above scenario it would be Rakuten left holding the bag?
Yeah we had a pretty high level of fraud come in from them. They really ought to have better controls on it as its well known that carders test cards by making hotel and STR bookings.
