Avoid Travel Scams publishes practical guides that help travelers recognize and avoid scams. This page explains how our content is created, sourced, and reviewed.
Who writes and edits our guides
Our guides are edited by Mara Whitfield, Editor, AvoidTravelScam. Mara reviews police reports, consumer-protection advisories, and official transport fare and tariff figures before publication. Avoid Travel Scams is an independent editorial resource; we are not a law-enforcement, government, or licensed-advisory body, and we do not present our editors as attorneys, accountants, or law-enforcement officials.
AI-assisted drafting, human review
We use AI tools to help draft and structure articles from our research notes. Every article is then reviewed and edited by a human editor before it is published. AI is a drafting aid, not the final authority: an editor is responsible for the accuracy, framing, and sourcing of what goes live.
Sourcing standards
- We rely on primary and official sources where possible: police and consumer-protection notices, transport authority fare rules, court and news reports, and government travel advisories.
- Dollar and currency amounts are published only when they trace to a cited source. We do not invent, round up, or estimate specific scam amounts for effect; a figure appears only when a named report supports it.
- Where a claim cannot be sourced, we describe the pattern qualitatively rather than attach a fabricated number.
Updates and corrections
Scam tactics change, and so do official rules. We revise guides as new information appears; the “last modified” date on each article reflects its most recent substantive update. To report an error or a new scam, use our contact page.