November 12th, 2004, 11:42 PM
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| | Uncommon Man
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: State College, PA
Posts: 4,281
| Free plane tickets anwywhere: scam?
Hey, I just got an email from "orbitz" saying that I've won free round trip tickets anywhere in the country for some contest that's claimed in the email.
Now, I'm wondering if it's for real, or a scam to get personal information (you have to fill out a form with a LOT of information).
Plus, it refers to the "attached PDF form" when the form is a word .doc file.
???
Sam
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November 12th, 2004, 11:45 PM
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| | A hero in training
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Norfolk, VA
Posts: 22,774
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Hrm idk
i would call Orbitz site 1-888-656-4546
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November 13th, 2004, 12:03 AM
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| | Uncommon Man
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: State College, PA
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I just did, and they weren't sure either (they put me on hold ten minutes and when they came back, asked me to forward to customer service).
This is what the real damage spammers have don is: every email has to be handled with latex gloves and a mask because it's potential some kind of CRAP.
Sam
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November 13th, 2004, 12:07 AM
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| | Ultimate Member
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hudson, Oh
Posts: 1,348
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spam sux, but i would have been suspicious getting an email like that regardless. why would they be contacting you out of the blue like that | |
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November 13th, 2004, 12:08 AM
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| | A hero in training
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Norfolk, VA
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If they werent sure i wouldnt trust it | |
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November 13th, 2004, 12:47 AM
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| | Uncommon Man
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: State College, PA
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I dunno, I'm beginning to see a major lack of cluefulness on any part of the orbitz organization, I'm pretty sure their call center is in India, and the email I wrote (with a forward of the message I received) was replied to in 5 minutes with a form letter and a javascript survey that was broken and wouldn't work in Opera, Firefox, or Konqueror. | |
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November 13th, 2004, 12:48 AM
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| | Ultimate Member
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Tampa
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Sounds like a phish to me.
Right click on the email HTML, and sometimes you'll see weird sentence fragments in the source code. A little tough to quote off memory, but you'll know the stuff I'm talking about...
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November 13th, 2004, 01:08 AM
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| | Green-dildo-riding banana
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: PA, USA
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So you actually signed up to be in the running for these tickets, or was it a totally random e-mail? | |
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November 13th, 2004, 04:18 PM
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| | Uncommon Man
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: State College, PA
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Well, I have bought a couple round trip tickets from Orbitz recently... so I suppose I could be in the running for this, but I dunno.
No sentence fragments, no "one big image" email either.
But, I'd never heard of it, why would they be emailing and not calling me (they've got my number) or even sending me a letter (they've got my address).
Also, the PDF form referred to in the text is actually a word document. | |
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November 13th, 2004, 04:24 PM
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| | abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy
Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: PA
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sounds quite fishy, but if its true, congrats  | |
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