In meinem Land können ID -Fotos verwendet werden, um einen Kredit aufzunehmen. Ich verstehe nicht, warum ich solche Bilder an einen Fremden senden sollte. Ich kann meine persönlichen Daten angeben und das Dokument bei der Ankunft vorstellen. Ist das die Standardpraxis in Ihrem Land? Was ist, wenn der Gastgeber darauf besteht, Fotos zu machen?
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Von gordriver_berserker
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Yes it’s normal. It’s an anti-mafia measure. They will keep copies of your ID for some time after you leave.
Stay home
It’s normal if you use Airbnb via self check-in, as the host needs to register your details in the municipality database. If you check-in in person, they ask you your id/passport in this moment.
It’s the standard practice. If you show them in person, they still do a copy of it.
It wouldn’t be legal.
To be perfectly legal, they should take the data in person and not take photos.
But especially for B&Bs or private hosts, it’s common practice to do this to save time.
If you don’t want to, tell them you don’t want to send photos of your documents and that you’ll show them to them in person, or just send them the data.
> In my country, ID photos can be used to take out a loan.
I highly doubt it. What country is it?
Asking for a friend.
If you are not comfortable with that, use hotels.
It’s perfectly legal.
> In my country, ID photos can be used to take out a loan.
That’s the problem after all
It’s legal and necessary. Why a couple of days make the difference? They will copy your document anyway. And don’t worry, we don’t loan money to anyone with just a copy of the document. You need tons of papers and signature.
I would suggest you to just share the information the host needs to register your presence at their b&b with the police. They ask for the id copy cause it’s easier for them to find the information they need and store the picture for future controls but there’s actually no law in Italy which makes this mandatory.
The law says that they have to send the police your information (name, dob, nationality, address), not that they have to collect id pictures.
So maybe ask the host which information they need from your id and send them just that.
I want to live in a country where ID photos are enough to take a loan. Scammers‘ paradise.
I don’t know why the people in the comments are so mean, but you should not give them the photos. It’s already illegal for the hotel to scan the documents on site (but they do it anyway), but asking for a PDF document in advance is absurd. I don’t think it is necessarily a scam, but it’s a very bad and dangerous practice that some hotels do to save time. It’s like having a computer without a password just because it’s annoying to spend those 5 seconds to login using the password.
This is also how criminals tend to get documents. Sometimes it happens that the computers of hotels get hacked and all the documents saved in the memory due to the lazyness of the hotel are stolen.
I seriously doubt you can get a loan by just showing a copy of an ID in any country of the world
It seems to me they want to save time damaging your privacy and document ownership. Probably they had bad experience with fake users or other people.