A woman from Baytown was almost out hundreds of dollars when she unknowingly bought plane tickets from a fake third-party website. Here's what to look out for when shopping online.
ByA woman from Baytown was almost out hundreds of dollars when she unknowingly bought plane tickets from a fake third-party website. Here's what to look out for when shopping online.With peak summer travel season right around the corner, for many people, traveling on a budget is the way to go.
Tiffany Sylvester and seven of her friends were headed to Nashville to celebrate her upcoming nuptials and she knew the plane tickets were not going to be cheap. She clicked on what she originally thought was a discount plane ticket website, but turns out, it was actually just a website with a similar name. She booked three tickets with two credit cards, and her dad booked the rest of the flights.
Sylvester said she became suspicious when the person on the other side of that call said her departure flight was booked, but claimed that her return flight was no longer available. She said they also told her that she needed more money to book the return flight. She said the person on the line also requested that she rebook and pay for all of the flights together.The Better Business Bureau warns about this.
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