FRAUD ALERT: Fraudulent American Airlines Emails
by J_Pratt
Whenever an internationally known business gets into trouble, scam emails often follow. Crooks know that people become concerned when they see emails from a company that has recently been in the news and are more likely to momentarily let their fraud guard drop. Add to this the fact that many people travel during the holidays and airlines often send confirmation or flight change emails to customers, reducing fraud suspicions even farther. So it’s no surprise we are seeing fraudulent emails purporting to come from American Airlines this year.
Recent Fraudulent American Airline Emails
From: American Airlines
To: [your name]@[your domain name]
Subject: Your Order KXVHPADI0PC5RCO from American Airlines
Attachment: American_Airlines-eticket-Prnt-Copy_48OZOI35EQ.zip
Notification,
FLIGHT NUMBER A332R1
ELECTRONIC 9527932163
DATE & TIME / DECEMBER 16, 2011, 10:45 PM ARRIVING / NEW YORK JFK TOTAL PRICE / 282.05 USD
Please find your ticket attached. To use your ticket you should print it. Thank you for using our airline company services.
American Airlines.
Notice its similarity to the DHL, other delivery, Adobe and WOW email scams reported to you recently. One common factor: they are all trying to get you to click on a .zip file that contains malicious code that can infect your computer with viruses, worms or imbed key logging programs in your computer that pass your log-on credentials and other personal information on to crooks who use them to steal your identity. Steps to take:
- Do not open the attachment or reply to the email. If there are any links, don’t click on them.
- Forward the email to American Airlines. AA wants to investigate the source of these emails. Forward a copy, including the header to .
- Consider reporting the emails to IC3. [URL=www.ic3.gov].
- Delete the email.
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