HI Belfast – using intermediate payment provider. Scam or just quirky?
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Recently booked an advance purchase res at HI Belfast, via the IHG webpage.
No payment taken from the details I gave, but a week later, I have received an email asking for payment via the 3rd party Prommt.
I was about to delete instinctively, but the amount is the correct amount I anticpated, and no payment had been taken from the original reservation, and so is this HI doing something weird – and not spam?
The header of the email shows it as from:
.. Holiday Inn Belfast City Centre <noreply@prommt.net>
.. reply-to: ravikant.yadav@andrashouse.co.uk
And has a direct link to a Prommt checkout page.
I don’t see an IHG customer service email I could forward it to, to check authenticity before paying….
What do you think??!
Given that email address I would contact the HI directly to check
I’d be very careful here — see the recent scams on booking.com, although this was booked direct, their system could still have been hacked in a similar way. I’d call the hotel to check, or contact IHG centrally to check.
Thanks for the advice both – I’ll contact the hotel.
If you Google Andras House you’ll find that they are a NI based hospitality company and list a number of IHG branded and other ‘chain’ hotels on their website.
Yes, looks legit – frustrating they don’t warn customers in advance..
Reply from their reservations dept:
“Yes I can confirm that the below payment link has come from us, we are unable to process payments directly from guests cards so we send a secure payment link for you to process the payment yourself.”
Interesting. I had a prepaid stay there in May and they took the payment from my Amex directly.
The merchant name was DAYSHOTELBELFAST BELFAST. The Amex IHG offer credited the next day.
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