A fraudulent airline email is easier to dismiss when it gets your trip details wrong. What happens when it includes your actual flight information and confirmation number? Frontier Airlines passengers are reporting precisely that, with scammers using real reservation details to solicit credit card information. Frontier has confirmed an active phishing campaign, and the obvious question is how the scammers obtained the data.
The troubling part is that passengers say the messages contain genuine confirmation numbers and flight details. Some report entering their credit card information into the linked websites.
One version promises a refund after the passenger verifies the card used for the booking. Another creates urgency by suggesting payment for an upcoming trip has not gone through.
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