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Travel Scam Warning! This “Unpaid” Tolls Con Targets Road…

Travel NewsMarch 12, 202555Views

Have you gotten any urgent text messages on your phone lately letting you know that you owe money for unpaid highway tolls? Well, there's good news and there's bad news. The good: You almost certainly don't have to pay anything to whomever sent the text. The bad: You've become the quarry in a smishing expedition.…

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This Carnival Cruise Customer Service Scam Cost a Family Their $900 Vacation

We've warned you before about travel scams involving fraudulent phone numbers for airlines' customer service call centers. Passengers fall prey to that con when they look up an airline's contact info via an internet search engine and dial a number on the search results page that goes to a bogus call center. A fraudster on…

January 5, 202558Views

Scam Alert: Passengers Report Fake Airline Phone Numbers Are Listed by Google

Over the weekend, as airports in the northeastern U.S. endured another 1,300 flight cancellations, reports surfaced of a complex scam operation that has allegedly compromised Google search results. A Twitter user identifying himself as Shmuli Evers posted that the local phone number he was shown for Delta Air Lines via a Google search actually linked…

May 4, 2024129Views

Disney’s Lightning Lane Is a Scam. Why Do People Keep Buying It?

Disney's Lightning Lane paid line system has some fatal flaws, and guests are exposing them online. If more people refused to pay for Genie+, the problems would resolve. Forget creativity, forget "magic" and "dreams," forget Walt's "vision." The Disney brand of our day is built mostly on…

April 26, 2024199Views