Most listings are genuine. A few are built to take a payment and disappear. Here are the tells that separate a real property from a convincing fake.
Fake listings are rare, but they're designed to look exactly like the real thing — right down to borrowed photos and a plausible address. They exist for one reason: to collect a payment and vanish before you arrive.
The tells
Prices that sit well below every comparable property. Pressure to pay outside the platform, by bank transfer or gift card. Reviews that are all five stars, all recent, and oddly generic. Photos that reverse-image-search to a different hotel. A phone number that never connects to a real front desk. Any one of these is a yellow flag; together they're a stop sign.
The single best check
Confirm the property exists and actually holds your reservation — independently of the listing you booked through. A genuine hotel can find you in its system by name and dates. A fake one can't, because there's nothing on the other end.
If the only proof your hotel exists is the website that took your money, you haven't verified anything yet.
rePUSHTI runs that independent check for you, reaching the property directly so you know it's real before you board the plane.
