An AirCanada Email Scam Is Making The Rounds…. But There Is Good News In Regards To This Scam
Here’s your second scam of the day. And this one is using Canadian airline Air Canada to make you more likely to fall for it. The scam starts via this email:
I find it extremely unlikely that any Canadian airline, never mind any airline period would just willingly hand over cash to anyone for deposit into their bank account or onto their credit card. On top of that, I haven’t flown Air Canada in over six years. So I know that there’s zero chance that this is real.
On top of all of that, this pretty much confirms that Air Canada didn’t send me this:
That’s not Aircanada.com so game over scammer. You lose and people should just delete this email. Except that I didn’t do that and clicked on the “Claim Now” link where I was pleasantly surprised with what I saw:
It looks like the hosting company that was hosting the threat actor’s scam website took it out. That’s good as I find that even when I report scams like this to hosting companies, they either take a long time to take out the website, or they never do. And that leaves people who fall for emails like this vulnerable to getting scammed. So kudos to Bluehost for nuking this website within 24 hours of this scam email hitting my inbox.
That doesn’t change the fact that you still need to be on your toes so that you don’t fall for a scam. Because you can’t depend on others to keep you safe. You have to take action by looking at the details of anything that you get to keep yourself safe.
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An AirCanada Email Scam Is Making The Rounds…. But There Is Good News In Regards To This Scam
Here’s your second scam of the day. And this one is using Canadian airline Air Canada to make you more likely to fall for it. The scam starts via this email:
I find it extremely unlikely that any Canadian airline, never mind any airline period would just willingly hand over cash to anyone for deposit into their bank account or onto their credit card. On top of that, I haven’t flown Air Canada in over six years. So I know that there’s zero chance that this is real.
On top of all of that, this pretty much confirms that Air Canada didn’t send me this:
That’s not Aircanada.com so game over scammer. You lose and people should just delete this email. Except that I didn’t do that and clicked on the “Claim Now” link where I was pleasantly surprised with what I saw:
It looks like the hosting company that was hosting the threat actor’s scam website took it out. That’s good as I find that even when I report scams like this to hosting companies, they either take a long time to take out the website, or they never do. And that leaves people who fall for emails like this vulnerable to getting scammed. So kudos to Bluehost for nuking this website within 24 hours of this scam email hitting my inbox.
That doesn’t change the fact that you still need to be on your toes so that you don’t fall for a scam. Because you can’t depend on others to keep you safe. You have to take action by looking at the details of anything that you get to keep yourself safe.
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This entry was posted on September 29, 2024 at 9:05 pm and is filed under Commentary with tags Scam. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.