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Aer Lingus Voucher

greenspurs · 2019-10-17 14:18:34

I received 2 emails, from "Aer Lingus" offering flights to anywhere for a €10 charge, I clicked on the link, and it brought me to ,what looks like, a legit Aer LIngus website. But, being an untrusting person, I tweeted Aer Lingus , and they said to ignore, its not from them. They asked for the email, so I forwarded it on…

17-10-2019 2:18pm

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greenspurs

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I received 2 emails, from "Aer Lingus" offering flights to anywhere for a €10 charge,
I clicked on the link, and it brought me to ,what looks like, a legit Aer LIngus website.
But, being an untrusting person, I tweeted Aer Lingus , and they said to ignore, its not from them.
They asked for the email, so I forwarded it on them.

So, beware !!!

"Bright lights and Thunder .................... " #NoPopcorn

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#2 17-10-2019 4:17pm

coylemj

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Instead of clicking on a link in a suspicious e-mail, hover the mouse over it and look at the status bar at the bottom of your screen, you will quickly see that's it's pointing to some site which is obviously not Aer Lingus. It's usually an innocent website that has been hacked.

This scam has been well publicized in other threads.

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#3 17-10-2019 4:21pm

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sorry ….

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