Travelers Beach Inn via Booking.com

We travelled to USA while using Booking.com, as we were certain they had references for the places they advised us to stay in. However one of the places we booked, Travellers Beach Inn, in Ventura, contacted us by sending a photo of a decomposing corpse and demanding money to not end up dead as well. This was brought under the attention of Booking.com, as we could obviously not stay at an establishment that sent us messages like that. Booking.com just laughed it of and said it was a **** and we were safe to stay there. I do not think anyone from Booking.com would stay in a strange country in a place after they have received a message from the only place who had their contact details threaten them. Yet that is exactly what they expected us to do. I find it deplorable that they even have such a place under their recommendations and will not make use of their services again.