Scam hotel booking sent family to Wetherspoon pub
Which? says staff are turning away up to 20 tourists a day after scammers used the pub's address.
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"I explained to the support staff that I had autistic children and the idea of turning up at a clearly non-existent property at 10.30pm would have been catastrophic."
— Paul Dawson , Other
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Which? says staff are turning away up to 20 tourists a day after scammers used the pub's address.
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