With Vietnam’s biggest Mid-Autumn celebration, the Thanh Tuyen Festival, in full swing, authorities are warning travellers to be wary of fake hotel social media pages looking to take advantage of the buzz around the holiday.
Tuyen Quang Provincial Police reported that a tourist was recently nearly scammed by a social media page that masqueraded as a real hotel.
Authorities said the Facebook page was made so that it would be identical to the real hotel’s, including the images.
When the tourist contacted the page, they were offered discounted rates below market price and limited time promotions.
The pages even have fake reviews to make them seem more legitimate.
Source: VietnamPlus
Authorities also warn that once travellers transfer money for what they believed was a deposit, the scammers may ask for more payments under the pretext of incorrect transfer details while they work to refund you.
After siphoning enough money from victims, the scammers will then cut all contact.
Victims will typically only notice the scam after arriving at the hotel and confirming that no official booking had ever been made.
This appears to be a recurring issue in Vietnam as several articles from 2025 also indicated authorities attempting to crackdown on scam pages.
Back in Feb 2025, Vietnam’s tourist authority required local tourism businesses to review and detect fraudulent pages and report them.
Source: Báo Nghệ An
In April that same year, a surge in scam cases occurred during tourist season.
Many of these scams follow the pattern described previously.
However, some also escalated into fake accountants claiming to be working for the hotel asking for bank details or citizenship numbers from their victims.
In some of these instances, victims’ bank accounts were compromised leading to them losing all their money.
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