Online Flight Ticket Booking Scam: Nowadays everything is booked online whether it is a flight ticket or a movie ticket… Sometimes it happens that due to offers, online ticket booking becomes costly for us and we can lose our life savings in a few seconds. This can be called online booking fraud.
To avoid this fraud, first of all we have to understand what are the reasons due to which we get trapped in the scam.
This is how scammers target
Enticing people by luring them with cheap tickets: Many times scammers offer people that a huge discount is available on a particular flight ticket which is available for a limited time and if you do not book soon, you will lose this opportunity. In this way, naive people fall for these scammers and try to book tickets. This is the reason due to which people become victims of scams.
Suspicious Emails: Many times people are given fake flight booking offers on email. These emails contain some suspicious links which take them to fake websites. If people click on these links and share personal information, they become victims of a big scam.
Use of company name: Scammers create fake websites and cheat people by using the name of a particular airline. People think that maybe we are booking tickets from the right place, but by booking tickets from a fake website, they end up losing all their money.
How can you avoid this scam
While booking flight tickets online, you should keep some important things in mind. The first thing is that you have to ensure that you are using a reliable and verified website…because these websites may be associated with phishing or online fraud, so book your flight tickets on the right website only.
Thirdly, while making online payments, ensure that you are making the payment in a secure manner as sometimes it happens that you fall prey to scammers and unknowingly share your bank details with them.
One important thing you need to know is that whatever site you are making payment on, you must check for https in the URL of that site. If the site does not have https, it means that the site is not safe for making payment.
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