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The potential for fraud doesn't concern me because Airbnb will clearly get an insurance company to run this program white-label, and they have whole departments designed to find and fight fraud. Based on the profits in the sector, it seems like they do a pretty good job of it.

As for the veracity of their line about someone being in custody with the SFPD, I stand corrected - my mistake. The last stuff that came to the top of my head was based off EJ's post on 28 July. A few searches reveal that the day after that post went up, the SFPD announced they had arrested someone.



"Airbnb will clearly get an insurance company to run this program white-label" <-- its not known if they can get an insurance policy for such a disparate group of people at a price that allows them to run with a profit


they aren't using an insurance company, they are paying for it out of pocket.




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