The Fightback Ninja has created the Scumbag Awards 2017 for the scammers and spammers who make our lives miserable through theft of money, time and even identity.
Each week, the Fightback Ninja will select and publicise one or more categories of scam or spam and a list of contenders for the award. You pick the winner by voting online and the awards will be announced in July.
For further information go to https://fightback.ninja/test/scumbag-awards-2017/
Category: Holiday Scams
Canaries-holidays.com
This company specialised in setting up fake websites offering holidays in the Canaries. A new website each month using the same photos and offers pulled in a lot of people who paid but didn’t get a holiday and often were out of pocket further on flights that couldn’t be cancelled last minute.
The Vistafun Ryanair Scam
Vistafun used the lure of £250 Ryanair vouchers to trick people into signing up for a subscription to their service. There were no vouchers and Ryanair had nothing to do with the scam.
https://fightback.ninja/test/the-vistafun-competition-trap/
The Airline Credit Scam
Thieves use stolen credit cards to buy airline tickets and then cancel them, in order to get a flight credit and a confirmation number. They then sell these online on sites such as Craigslist or Gumtree. The confirmation number makes the sale of credit appear genuine but the buyer transfers money by Western Union and it is gone and when they try to redeem the credit – they are told the original purchase was on a stolen card so they cannot.
Walkers Crisps 2016 Competition Scam
Not strictly a holiday scam as it was a competition but the Marketing people at Walkers outdid themselves with this nasty cheating piece of Marketing that backfired as it angered many previously loyal customers.
https://fightback.ninja/test/walkers-crisps-2016-competition-scam/
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