There’s an email (spam) purporting to be from Southwest Airlines, claiming to giveaway free airline tickets. This site is not connected in any way with Southwest Airlines.
In order to receive these so-called free tickets, you must complete a number of purchases and applications, and like all scams, good luck in receiving any airline tickets. This is a data mining operation using the name of a reliable and trusted airline to gain your trust.
Read the terms and conditions BEFORE entering any personally identifiable information–you will be amazed at the long list of requirements, including applying for credit cards, applying for credit reports, and the like, all of which eventually cost the applicant and supply spear phishing information for the sponsor of the site.
The web site (claim.your-next-flight.com) is a scam and has a poor reputation rating from the Web of Trust community.
Other illegal activity by this domain
- Email & Personal Data Harvesting (your data is sold to advertisers)
- Targeted Online Advertising: Browser Exploit, Tracking & Redirection
- Possible Illegal Phishing/ID Theft Scams (associated sites).
If you receive any email as described above, you should delete it immediately and take no other action. Do not become their next victim.
The current website is not reachable, but don’t be fooled, these scammers will launch a new campaign pointing at a new domain.
This is for real…. It happen to me…i got a mesage from a friend to check it out…that message ended up being fake. I went to the site and it looked so legit. Good thing I figured it out right before they got all of my info. As they always say….if it sounds to good to be true it probably is!
Don,
These scams keep the security companies in business, but unfortunately there are too many gullible people that fall for them.
Is there any way to stop the spam from coming in at this point if you fell for it?
Jon,
If there was we wouldn’t see them today. Spam has been around since the internet and though we have tools to combat most, it’s the few that get most people.