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1 week agoTourists in Middle East warned as scammers impersonate airline support
Scammers impersonate airline support accounts on social media to steal personal information from travelers in the Middle East.
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1 month agoA former flight attendant is accused of fooling airlines into giving him free flights. But how?
A former flight attendant accused of posing as a pilot and working airline employee fooled three U.S. carriers into giving him hundreds of free tickets over a span of four years, federal authorities say. But precisely how he is alleged to have done it - and why the airlines wouldn't have caught on sooner - has industry insiders scratching their heads.
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1 month agoToronto man charged with posing as a commercial pilot for free flights | CBC News
No, it's not a scene from the 2002 movie Catch Me If You Can, where Leonardo DiCaprio poses as a pilot to defraud an airline, but it might seem familiar. On Tuesday, the U.S Attorney General's Office for the District of Hawaii said that a Toronto man is accused of posing as a commercial pilot for four years, using a fake employee ID to take hundreds of free flights on three different airlines.
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