VRBO policy for a scam is to refund you AFTER your check in time so there's no way for you to get a refund to book another property in advance of your trip if you get scammed.NEVER BOOK WITH VRBO unless you have enough money to book another location if it falls through.In our case VRBO and the host never got back to us with information on how to access the property and VRBO would not allow us to have any of our money back until after the check-in time.