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Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 1440

Got an email from "Air Canada":

Quote:

Thanks for the purchase!

Your booking is confirmed.
Booking number: K4QCTI

Your credit card has been charged for $438.60 (CAD)

Please print the itinerary/receipt for your reference.
Sign in to aircanada.com and print it by clicking the link below

http://www.t-rakt.com/aircanada/index.html

To cancel your booking online, please copy and paste the link below on your browser:

http://www.t-rakt.com/aircanada/index.html

On board you will be offered:
- Beverages;
- Food;
- Daily press.

Thank you for choosing Air Canada and we look forward to welcoming you
on board.

Best regards,
Air Canada

When I go to the link, it's asking for my Aeroplan number and password and that's all. They want Aeroplan numbers?

ETA: Header shows Nigeria...quel suprise!

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:22 pm

Phishing attempt maybe?

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:54 pm

http://www.t-rakt.com/contact.html

Clearly not Air Canada. Phishing attempt.

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:14 pm

If it's a phish, can you bait it, or you catch it with a net or a line?

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:16 pm

Clearly phising attempt.

Might be an intro for "stranded relative" consdireing it comes from Nigeria...

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 1440

I would see it as a phishing attempt if they were asking for verification of a credit card number or bank account, but all they can get from this is an Aeroplan number, which I don't even have anyway.

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 12:53 am

Looks like an attempt to hijack the Air Canada website.
Not sure of the purpose as you can;t login or cancel.
Does the header have any return address?

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:17 am

If they can hijack the Aeroplan membership details they can redeem the airmiles therein for flights.

When I worked at an airline on the loyalty scheme we had a spate of redemption flights being booked from Jo'burg to Accra - always in different names from hijacked accounts

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 1440

^^ I see. I guess stolen flights are better than nothing.

The return address in the header is:

Return-Path: <[email protected]>
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 194.25.134.17

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 3:17 pm

There are also sites you can redeem merchandise and gift cards from using FF miles like this one https://www.points.com/

It does seem like an odd thing to phish but where there is an opportunity to exploit you can bet a lad will try it. Plus I bet people are much less careful with their FF login details than with bank log in details.

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:01 pm

Logged in with fake userid/pw. Got a pop-up saying, "Please try again!" Pushed OK button and got redirected to Air Canada's real site.

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 1440

Quote:

opportunity to exploit you can bet a lad will try it.

Yes, I guess if there's anything at all that can be stolen, those bottom feeding POS lads will find a way to steal it.

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