The Hotel
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| First episode date | 2011 |
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| Final episode date | February 15, 2015 |
| Production location(s) | United Kingdom |
| Networks | Channel 4 |
| Starring | Mark Jenkins (2012—) |
| Number of episodes | 33 |
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| ID | 2046707 |
About The Hotel
The Hotel is a fly-on-the-wall British television documentary series which has run for four series consisting of 33 episodes. It is produced by Dragonfly Film and Television Productions and has been broadcast on Channel 4 since 17 April 2011.
Booking. com users angry at firm's response to hacks
... This enables them to send messages from the official app and fool customers into paying them instead of The Hotel...
Booking. com hackers increase attacks on customers
... They do this by sending an email to The Hotel pretending to be a former guest who has left their passport in their room...
For some Israeli hostage families, the painful wait goes on
... The families in The Hotel needed new clothes, new phones...
Egypt holiday couple died after room sprayed for bedbugs, inquest rules
... Dr Adeley said Mr Cooper s illness and death was rapid, but described the medical treatment provided for Mrs Cooper as " utterly insufficient" after she was taken to a clinic in The Hotel before an ambulance was called, creating a delay of four hours before she got to hospital...
Marcus Rashford's brother Dane Rashford faces US assault charge
... Miami Beach fire and rescue was also called to The Hotel to treat the victim s injuries, the police report said...
Fidias: YouTuber sorry for freeloading stunt video in Japan
... " And we re leaving The Hotel without getting caught and without any problem, " he says to the camera...
Government to close 50 migrant hotels
... Some migrants have also been in an attempt to reduce The Hotel bill...
Premier Inn 'bedbug bites' case leads to compensation
... She said on the drive home after staying at The Hotel from 10 to 11 August she started getting bite marks on her legs, and first thought they were from mosquitoes...
Booking. com users angry at firm's response to hacks
By Liv McMahon & Joe TidyTechnology reporter & Cyber correspondent
Booking. com users have spoken of their anger at The Company 's failure to stop them falling victim to cyber-criminals.
For at least a year, fraudsters have been able to infiltrate its app and trick users out of hundreds of pounds.
Dozens of people have contacted The Bbc to say they have lost money, with one saying she had been " failed" by the travel firm.
Booking. com said it was implementing new safety features but there was " no Silver Bullet ".
The Company , which is one of the biggest hotel and holiday websites in The World , has not itself been hacked.
Instead, criminals have tricked their way into the administration portals of individual hotels that use The Service .
This enables them to send messages from the official app and fool customers into paying them instead of The Hotel .
This kind of fraud has been happening for More Than a year, but recently appears to have increased in intensity with hackers to seek more victims.
Colleen Marples, 44, from the Derbyshire Dales, lost £147 when booking a holiday in Egypt for her husband's 50th birthday in March.
After exchanging messages with who she thought was The Hotel in Cairo via the Booking. com app, she was sent a payment request. It had in fact come from scammers.
" I clicked on it not suspecting it was a scam, given it was in the same ongoing chat in the app, " she told The Bbc .
She has not been able to recover The Money from the website or her bank.
" It's not a high amount of money for Booking. com but it's a significant amount of money in Everyday Life .
" Booking. com have a duty to their clients and they've failed in this case. I Am still battling to get my money. "
Another British customer, who wished to remain anonymous, told The Bbc he lost £1,200 after being tricked through the app.
He is also fighting to get a refund and said he felt " extremely let down".
" I believe, as a customer that chooses to use the official platform Set Up by The Company , you can expect A Level of security and trust From Within that system. "
Meanwhile, Ian Robinson , 64, from Cumbria, described how hackers attempted to scam him twice for £122 And Then £283 at two unrelated hotels in separate towns, as he booked a Road Trip in the UK.
" Luckily, I phoned the hotels directly and so avoided getting caught, but when I reported it to Booking. com, they weren't interested, " He Said .
A spokesman for Booking. com said that there was no " Silver Bullet to eradicate all fraud on the internet" but that The Company 's security team were always monitoring and stopping new threats.
" We Are implementing new measures to assure the account security of both our customers and partners, including new security features to lock or block inactive partner admin accounts, which is where we have seen fraudulent activity take place once scammers get unauthorised access to The Hotel 's Booking account. "
The Company said it was also monitoring for suspicious activity on its app and disabling links being shared if The Chats appear illegitimate.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
