Airbnb customers shouldn't have to read reviews to detect scams. I mean, you can book some crappy hotels through, say, booking.com, but I think you'd have to try quite hard to book a hotel that didn't actually exist.
Reviews are public. But some scams are elaborate and involve the posting of fake reviews.
Exactly. They had positive reviews. Again, we're not new to the Airbnb platform.
So by your account the reviews were positive, but also detailed many people being scammed. Right.
Don't blame the victim because someone was running a scam.
By that logic, no one can ever be blamed for anything.
I'm pretty sure we could still blame the scammers.