Bookings canceled with falsified documents bearing the Public Health Directorate letterhead

A few days ago, we announced that we had discovered the newest method used by some apartment owners to cancel tourist reservations. The whole story started from this message that a tourist received from the owner of an apartment.

The woman paid for a vacation in the area of ​​the new resort Mamaia Nord (Năvodari), but, impatient, arrived at the beach the day before. She checked into another apartment, but received the text message from the owner of the apartment where she was going to spend her vacation. Scared, especially since it involved authorities, a possible infection with COVID 19, she did not suspect anything.

In fact, he had just been the victim of a spike!

Although I had the document received by the woman since last week, I decided not to publish it in order not to affect the course of some investigations. Until today when the Directorate of Public Health confirmed that what the woman received was a gross fake.

The owner, who was able to compose a fake address with the letterhead and stamp of the Ministry of Health, was so desperate to get rid of the tourist that she invented a restriction of buildings located on an entire street in the new Mamaia Nord resort (Năvodari). The fake document reached many owners in the area who panicked and alerted the authorities.

Today, the Public Health Directorate of Constanta sent me an official statement regarding the false document issued by the apartment owner. According to the address, “The attached document is NOT issued by the Public Health Directorate of Constanta.”

The possible reason for the spike

In order not to go on for too long, let me explain why the owner of the apartment created a panic. The tourist had paid for the vacation through airbnb, and the money had already been charged to her card. He did not realize that the tourist's chosen period is the very long weekend of Pentecost, when the rates go up. If you cancel the reservation it was sanctioned by airbnb. And then she chose to make up a story that will most likely cost her more than the extra 100 euros she will earn from other tourists.

This is precisely why I recommend that you use only authorized structures even if we are talking about holiday apartments. Many of these are taxed and registered with the Ministry of Tourism.