Watch Out! Free Ticket Promotion Survey

Fraud takes advantage of EasyJet airlines to search their prey

Fake ticket promo advertisement - Image Credit easyJet@Twitter

Vacation with free plane tickets or say very cheap tickets, indeed able to cradle anyone who read it. But. Behind all the tempting offers, you may get stuck on a new problem that you will regret later, various types of fraud can just happen in front of the eyes of the prey without realizing it.

Indeed, the virtual world has made many citizens of the world get the convenience, citing reviews on the site CNN Indonesia, August 28, as happened in the promotion of cheap tour packages, but the convenience is also also create opportunities for fraudsters to steal data or user’s money of social media.

In spite of the many cases that have occurred, examples of cases of fraud experienced by social media users, because hunted by promotional rush cheap.

You might be able to spend some time looking at how crowded it would be if a charlatan made use of the EasyJet airline name to search for their prey.

This then gets a special review on the site of The Independent, a fraudsters perform its action by installing promotional advertisements cheap airline tickets on Facebook.

Indeed they are very clever fraudsters, try to be thorough on the ad, the cheater offers a free flight ticket that can be obtained after filling EasyJet's 22nd birthday survey online.

Tempting! Unknowingly people are compelled to click on ads, the link is even open a new site page that asks victims fill out their personal Facebook account details.

Then to complete the curiosity, the prey will begin to fill in the data, and the victim is asked to share the fraudulent promotional advertising link to his/her fellow Facebook friends, with the lure of "Stay 332 more tickets remaining, immediately share this ad!"

Of course the EasyJet airlines object, they claim never made such a promotion, and if they did, then they would announce it on their social media or official website.

You probably know, if not just EasyJet airlines feel used by the fraudsters, as reported last week Ryanair also experienced the same thing.

The bidding ads are almost identical, the deceitful person says that they will hand out free tickets as Ryanair's 32nd birthday.

And as you know if this year they are, Ryanair airline is only 23 years old, then they give their official statement.

"Remember, if any account is not marked blue from Facebook then its ads or promotions could be a fraud."

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Source: Ardita Mustafa - CNN Indonesia, The Independent
Image: easyJet@Twitter