Name: I stumbled across a huge Airbnb scam that’s taking over London
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I stumbled across a huge Airbnb scam that’s taking over London

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We may earn a commission if you buy something from any affiliate links on our site. .It’s November 2019 and I’m standing in an Airbnb in Battersea, south London. But this is not the Airbnb I booked. Everything is slightly, confusingly, off. All the rooms are the wrong sizes, all the furniture in the wrong places. There are hints everywhere that something is up: the apartment block, a barely finished newbuild sandwiched between Battersea Park station and a Catholic church, is teeming with cleaning staff. There are cleaners in the hallways, cleaners lobbing bin bags of rubbish out of the...

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