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FAKE

Travel fakes like this are on the uptick in 2025. Criminals are using artificial intelligence to create fake websites, listings and social media profiles designed to separate you from your money. 

How to protect yourself from travel fakes

February 27, 2025January 12, 2025 by Christopher Elliott

Travel fakes like this are on the uptick in 2025. Criminals are using artificial intelligence to create fake websites, listings and social media profiles designed to separate you from your money. 

Categories On Travel
Is this story a fake? 5 ways you can tell. Do you accept sponsored content and if so, how much you charge?"

Is this story a fake? 5 ways you can tell

January 26, 2024February 5, 2014 by Christopher Elliott

Not a day seems to go by that I don’t receive an email that commends me for my “well-written” site and asks, “Do you accept sponsored content and if so, how much you charge?”

Categories Problem Solved
You're surrounded by fakes. The clothes you wear could be fake. The money you use? Your "friends" on social media are sometimes fake

Surrounded by impostors, what’s a consumer to do?

January 23, 2024July 31, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

You’re surrounded by fakes. The clothes you wear could be fake. The money you use? Not real, maybe. Even your “friends” on social media are sometimes fake. What’s a consumer to do?

Categories Problem Solved
You pull into the parking lot of a grocery store. Some guy approaches and offers to sell you a "new" TV, "still in the box”, for just $40.

Don’t be fooled by fake electronics: 5 tips

January 23, 2024July 24, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

Ever had a “duh!” moment that you regretted for years to come?

Categories Problem Solved
Someone is spoofing the accounts of a celebrity's wife and teenage kids. What's an IT guy to do when Facebook ignores him?

How do I get rid of the Facebook fakers?

January 23, 2024July 11, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

Someone is spoofing the accounts of a celebrity’s wife and teenage kids. What’s an IT guy to do when Facebook ignores him?

Categories Problem Solved
TripAdvisor is a regrettable by-product of the information revolution whose user-generated ratings too often hurt travelers.

Is TripAdvisor still letting hotels rig their reviews?

January 23, 2024May 10, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

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Categories Is This Enough Compensation?
Who is hunnyb62? The answer matters to Daniel Corcoran and a group of contributors to TripAdvisor’s Baltimore forum.

Does TripAdvisor have a problem with fake reviews?

January 22, 2024June 30, 2012 by Christopher Elliott

Who is hunnyb62?

Categories Commentary, The Navigator

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