Text scam lures people with fake Qantas bookings

Text scam lures people with fake Qantas bookings

A text scam hitting the phones of Aussie has tried to bait them with fake Qantas bookings.

This text claims that a flight has been booked by the person and tries to get them to call a number if they believe a mistake has been made.

The text reads something along the lines of: “Qantas Airline ticket bought for flight O7MZ. If this was not you get in touch.”

Some reported that the text had their contact name to make the text appear more like it was from Qantas or a bank.

If a person calls the number it puts them through to a scammer that tries to swindle them out of their money.

People were alerted by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) of the ploy.

“Beware of text messages saying you have bought a ticket or made a purchase and asking you to click a link or call a number if it wasn‘t you,” Scamwatch said.

“This is a scam. Don’t call the number.”

Qantas wrote some information in its advice page on avoiding the scam.

“From time to time we are made aware … scams and social media posts that claim to be authentic Qantas communications,” the carrier said.

“Unfortunately scammers can change sender ID names which makes it confusing for the recipient to recognise when a legitimate message has been sent and when it is a scam. These messages – because of the sender ID name – can then be grouped with genuine messages with Qantas.

“We will never ask customers to click a link to download a file about bookings from a website, including our own. We send important documents that relate to your booking as Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files that you can download directly.”

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