Vacation Tours USA - Vacation Summer Rental Scam

Watch out for the summer rental vacation scam. Vacation Tours USA warns us of the most popular vacation scam. People will post vacation rentals on craigslist and online classified sites. They steal pictures from vacation rental sites like VRBO . They also lower the price so many people will respond to it. Imagine 20 people sending them a few thousand dollars via wire.  Once you respond to their ad, they will send you a contract to fill out and some fake keys.  It also asks you to wire all the money or a large deposit via Western Union or Money order in advance. They use fake names and ids to pick up the money. They use temporary emails signed up for at the library. This way they can't track the email to the scam artists computer. The only way to avoid this is use real vacation rental sites and use credit cards.

Fly by night travel agents will also take your money via wire for plane tickets, hotel and car rental.  They will pocket your money and book nothing for you. Your only recourse would be if you paid by credit card. Its a epidemic at this point because its a very easy scam worth thousands of dollars. Once the wire or money order is sent, its very hard to track down.

The only way to stop these scams is to use credit cards, Paypal or pay in person. Avoid online classified ads.  Make sure you talk on the phone when making reservation, email is not enough. Only make a deposit, never pay the entire amount in advance.  Search the address to see if other people are renting the same house. The larger the amount of the transaction, the more careful you should be.
See other scam warnings at this Vacation Tours USA site.      

Free Airline Tickets

Everyone loves free, especially when its free airline tickets. The top ten ways to get free airline tickets are as follows: 1. Go to a travel club presentation. You will spend between 90 minutes and three hours listening to the sales pitch. You will then get some travel vouchers that will not include taxes. Timeshare presentations are the same. 2. Sign up for a credit card that is giving free airline tickets. Just sign up and follow directions to use your bonus miles for the airline tickets. Then cancel the card if the free tickets were your only objective. 3. Volunteer to get bumped from a flight. Get bumped again on the next flight for extra bonus. 4. Open a TD Ameritrade account and get free miles.  The more you put in, the more you get. Of course you can pull the money back out if you do not want to invest it. 5. You can earn miles by eating out on your credit card.  You can enroll in programs like Southwest Airlines dining card. The larger the city, the more places that you can eat and get points. 6. You can shop for points as well as stores like Bebe and Sunglass Hut. 6. Complain about flight problems. Complain online through email or a complaint form to get the best results. Be sure to ask they want to make the situation right. Expect a voucher in the mail in  a week or so. 7. Take longer flight to earn more miles. Go to out of the way connections. 8. Take out a home loan with companies giving free flights or massive amounts of miles. 9. Try to win radio contests were your odds are good.  You can search for these online. 10. Buy one get one free airline tickets advertised through companies like American Express. So in conclusion, there are many ways to  get free airline tickets. Going to Vacation Tours USA travel club presentation is just one of them. See their Pinterest page. Get the latest tweets about free airline tickets at Twitter. There is even a vacationtoursusa.com blog. All their links at at Tumblr.