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BEWARE! INVESTIGATE.


Byline: Penman; Sommerlad

HERE'S a warning about paying strangers when booking holidays.

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 Tamara reached the apartment she had rented for pounds 850 in Monte Carlo Monte Carlo (môNtā` kärlō`), town (1982 pop. 13,150), principality of Monaco, on the Mediterranean Sea and the French Riviera. , the owner knew nothing about her or her booking.

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She had booked the apartment though selfcatering-breaks.com, paying someone using the name Jose Nieto.

Helen Young of selfcatering-breaks said that the site was only "an advertising portal" and not responsible for holiday bookings.

Jose Nieto, perhaps not surprisingly, cannot be traced.
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Title Annotation:Features
Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Nov 19, 2009
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