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An online booking app: Growing use of mobile phones and Internet has enabled online hotel bookings (PHOTO: Courtesy)
KWALE, KENYA: Some holiday makers visiting Diani, Kwale County for the festive season found themselves in the hands of online fraudsters who posed as hotel owners to fleece them.
The imposters were making reservations for hotel rooms for those who wished to do booking via travel booking sites which has now turned to be money minting trickery to rob unsuspecting travelers.
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